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 lead the Ecosystems team: the engineers who connect Ambient.ai to the Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) our customers run, and who are extending into new access control capabilities. You'll own both the team and the partner relationships behind it. The team's work ranges from building and maintaining PACS integrations that customers depend on every day to developing new access control products from an early, ambiguous starting point. You'll set direction and priorities across all of it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Deep experience with access control systems, from the software side (a PACS vendor, a cloud access control company, or an integrator's engineering team) or the hardware side (locks, readers, controllers, credentials)
- 6+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers or leading a team as a tech lead with people responsibilities
- A track record of shipping and operating integrations with third-party systems, and of building something new from an early, ambiguous starting point
- Experience owning technical relationships with external partners: you've scoped joint work, negotiated access and support, and resolved escalations without losing the relationship
- Strong backend and distributed systems judgment, including systems that span customer-site hardware and the cloud
- Clear communication with engineers, product leaders, partner executives, and customers alike
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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