Senior / Staff Data Scientist (Trust & Safety) Suno
AI music generation tools
Permanent
San Francisco
No remote
220K to 320K $ a year
> 5 years
You'll be part of
183 employees
Software
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Our take
Suno is a company leveraging AI for music creation, attempting to make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their musical background. The platform allows users to generate complete songs by inputting text prompts, breaking down the barriers that traditionally separate amateurs from professional musicians. Unlike other AI music tools, Suno focuses on ease-of-use, enabling even those with no music theory knowledge to produce professional-sounding songs. This approach has already attracted a diverse user base, including everyday people and GRAMMY-winning artists. Suno' rise has been fast and impressive, but it's now facing serious legal heat, including new lawsuits from independent artists. If it can defend its practices ad show respect for creators' rights, there's still a strong future ahead for the company.
You'll be working on
- Trust should be the foundation of every relationship Suno has — with our users, our artists, our rightsholders, and the broader music community. We’re looking for our first dedicated data scientist on the Trust & Safety team to help make that real by building the metrics and analysis that let us measure how we’re doing, and collaborating to define and execute on an impactful roadmap
- You’ll partner closely with product, engineering, and legal to bring a rigorous, quantitative lens to problems like copyright detection, content filtering, and bot detection. You and cross-functional stakeholders will work together to create a seamless creative environment for our users that is built on security and trust
- Define and evaluate metrics for the health of our trust and safety ecosystem
- Analyze and build models, algorithms, and methodologies for maintaining a safe platform, like bot detection, content filtering, copyright detection, etc
- Design and run experiments that measure the real impact of changes to Trust & Safety practices, and turn results into clear recommendations
- Partner with product and engineering to size opportunities and shape the Trust & Safety roadmap
- Contribute to building strong data foundations as part of our awesome data science team
Benefits
- Retirement Match: Suno offers a Traditional 401(k) plan and Roth 401(k) plan with a 3% Safe Harbor company match.
- Medical, Dental & Vision: We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents.
- Commuter Benefit: Generous monthly stipend for commuting expenses.
- Lunch Program: Suno offers free lunch 5 days a week in each of our office locations.
- Time Off: Suno employees are provided with unlimited paid time off as well as unlimited sick days + 11 company holidays.
- Creative Education Stipend: Annual reimbursements for creative education and development.
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to both birthing and non-birthing parents.
We're looking for
Machine learning
Harbor
Foundation
SQL
Python
- Applicants must be eligible to work in the US
- Strong hands-on SQL and Python
- 6–8 years of experience in data science or a closely related analytical field, with several years in trust & safety or closely adjacent problems (e.g., spam/fraud, integrity, policy-adjacent ML)
- Experience building metrics or evaluation frameworks from scratch, without established precedent to lean on
- Experience running online experiments end-to-end, from ideation and metrics selection through analysis and informing the final decision
- Musician or creative hobbyist
- Experience training and building predictive ML models, offline and real-time