Ambient.ai is transforming physical security with computer vision intelligence, empowering security teams with automated threat detection and visual verification. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
About the role
You'll design and build the backend powering Ambient.ai 's product experience for enterprise security teams. The APIs and services you ship are used directly by operators at Fortune 500 companies to monitor and respond to security events across tens of thousands of cameras.
What they're looking for
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with meaningful time on user-facing web or mobile products
- Strong Python skills and production experience with Flask, Django, or FastAPI
- Solid API design instincts across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, and a clear point of view on what makes an interface clean
- Comfort modeling data across SQL, NoSQL, time-series, and vector stores, with a sense of the tradeoffs between them
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- A track record of debugging hard production issues and shipping the fix
More about this role
Ambient.ai is the category creator and leader in Agentic Physical Security. Powered by Ambient Pulsar, the first reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security, our platform seamlessly integrates with existing security cameras and physical access control systems to unify monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations through an always-on reasoning layer that augments security operators with superhuman capabilities. The results: 95% fewer false alarms, investigations 20x faster, and 10x faster response.
The momentum speaks for itself: we doubled new ARR in FY26, and have delivered results for world-class customers including Cisco, ServiceNow, SentinelOne, TikTok, Bayer, and MoMA. That kind of momentum creates an environment where great people thrive, and it shows: we recently ranked #71 out of 500 on the Forbes best startup employers list .
Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is on a fast-paced journey to fulfill our mission: prevent every security incident possible.
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