# Senior / Staff Data Scientist, Trust & Safety

**Company:** [Suno](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/suno)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $220k – $320k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Python, Online Experiments, Metrics Design, Evaluation Frameworks, Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Bot Detection, Content Filtering, Copyright Detection
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> The first dedicated Trust & Safety data scientist will define ecosystem metrics, run experiments, evaluate safety models, and shape the roadmap with Product, Engineering, and Legal. Requires 6–8 years of data science experience, Trust & Safety or adjacent domain expertise, and strong SQL and Python skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and evaluate metrics for the health of the Trust & Safety ecosystem.
- Analyze and contribute to models, algorithms, and methodologies for bot detection, content filtering, copyright detection, and related platform-safety challenges.
- Design and run online experiments end-to-end, from ideation and metric selection through analysis and decision recommendations.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to size opportunities and shape the Trust & Safety roadmap.
- Collaborate with Legal and cross-functional stakeholders to apply rigorous quantitative analysis to trust and safety problems.
- Contribute to strong data foundations as part of the data science team.

## Requirements
- 6–8 years of experience in data science or a closely related analytical field.
- Several years of experience in Trust & Safety or adjacent areas such as spam, fraud, integrity, or policy-adjacent machine learning.
- Strong hands-on SQL and Python skills.
- Experience running online experiments from ideation and metric selection through analysis and final decision-making.
- Experience building metrics or evaluation frameworks from scratch.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience training and building predictive machine learning models, both offline and in real time.
- Musician or creative hobbyist.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary range: $220,000–$320,000.
- Competitive equity package.
- 401(k) with 3% employer match and Roth 401(k).
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with PPO, HSA, and FSA options.
- 11 paid holidays, unlimited PTO, and sick time.
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Creative education stipend.
- Commuter allowance.
- In-office lunch five days per week.

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