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Brad Matthiesen, Head of Engineering at Suno

Welcome Brad Matthiesen, Head of Engineering at Suno on this episode of 🔥The Lantern 🔥 Suno is building the future of music right here in Cambridge. Brad and his team are helping people get more value from music, in a lot of different ways, on the technical side of the house. 🤩 Why is Brad excited about leading engineering at Suno? 🤩 Suno is known for its foundation model research and ability to take a prompt and turn it into a song. If you’re a builder and like to do awesome things, especially around music, there's no better place to be right now than Suno. 🔍 What are Suno’s growth plans heading into 2026? 🔎 After the fundraise in March of 2024, the team has grown pretty rapidly over the last year and a half, closing in on 100 team members with almost half of the team in Cambridge. They’re planning to grow pretty rapidly into 2026 and add ~50 engineers over the next year (with 30+ roles open currently). Growth will come across the platform & infrastructure team, machine learning (research & inference), product, engineering, and full stack web & mobile development. Suno has basically every kind of engineer…except for mechanical or chemical engineers 🤔 What is the opportunity Brad & his team are chasing at Suno? 🤔 Suno is built from end to end, starting with foundation model research, all the way to a consumer tech application used by millions. These types of opportunities don’t usually exist in Boston (or most places!). The opportunity to build an enduring product, company, and brand is pretty immense. Every new hire is meaningful and intentional. You’re going to be able to leave a lasting impact! 🤔 How do new team members come in and make an immediate impact? 🤔 Suno has a high trust environment with a lot of autonomy where learning & growth is really important. New team members are expected to start making contributions quickly. Two interns this past summer even launched a new radio feature that shipped to production! From a learning & growth perspective, Brad likes to tell his team “we don’t have to solve tomorrow’s problems today but we have to put ourselves in a position to solve them by the time tomorrow comes” The Engineering team has a series called Dev Tea once a week on Friday where a member of the engineering team teaches the rest of the team something in a TED talk type format. This series has even expanded to include Data Tea, Manager Tea, Music Tea, and Book Tea. High trust, autonomy, and a hunger for learning has created a great cultural environment for their team and the talented people they’re looking to have join and make an immediate impact.