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# Senior Security Engineer at Ambient.ai

- **Company:** Ambient.ai
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambient.ai/c496f4e2-3bef-4894-81ae-7d87304cfccc

## Job description

Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time. 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](https://www.forbes.com/lists/americas-best-startup-employers/). 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. Ready to learn more? Connect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ambient-ai/?viewAsMember=true) and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@ambient-ai-inc) About the role: We’re looking for a Security Engineer to help strengthen [Ambient.ai](http://Ambient.ai)’s security posture as we grow. As part of our India Technology Engineering team, you’ll work across engineering, IT, and business teams to implement security improvements, support compliance programs, and help customers and partners understand our security practices. This is a hands-on role spanning security reviews, cloud and endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and customer security assurance. You’ll combine technical expertise with clear communication and practical judgment to identify risks and drive improvements through completion.

What you’ll do: Support security initiatives and reviews:

- Help plan and execute security initiatives across our products, infrastructure, and corporate environment.
- Conduct security reviews of systems, architecture, and proposed changes, providing actionable recommendations to engineering and IT teams.
- Improve security policies, technical standards, and operational processes.

Support compliance programs and penetration testing

- Contribute to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs through control implementation, evidence collection, audit preparation, and remediation tracking.
- Coordinate internal stakeholders, auditors, and external testing partners to support assessments and penetration tests.
- Work with engineering teams to address findings and validate fixes.

Strengthen cloud and endpoint security

- Implement and maintain security controls across cloud infrastructure and employee endpoints.
- Improve identity and access management, secure configuration, endpoint protection, logging, and monitoring.
- Help strengthen network and application defenses, including DDoS protection and web application firewall controls.
- Investigate security alerts and support incident response and follow-up improvements.

Drive vulnerability management

- Identify, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities across applications, infrastructure, endpoints, and third-party dependencies.
- Partner with system owners to establish remediation timelines and track findings through closure.
- Improve scanning coverage, reporting, and automation to reduce recurring risks.

Support customer and partner security assurance

- Complete information security questionnaires and respond to security due diligence requests from customers and partners.
- Partner with Sales, Legal, and Engineering on security reviews and security-related contract requirements.
- Provide accurate documentation of our controls and practices, flagging gaps or commitments that require further review.
- Maintain reusable responses and supporting evidence to improve consistency and turnaround time.

What you’ll bring:

- 5+ years of relevant experience in security engineering, information security, or infrastructure engineering with substantial security responsibilities.
- Hands-on experience securing cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud.
- Working knowledge of endpoint security, identity and access management, network security, encryption, and security monitoring.
- Experience with vulnerability assessment, risk prioritization, remediation tracking, and verification.
- Familiarity with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, audit evidence, and compliance workflows.
- Understanding of application security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, secure coding, and common web application vulnerabilities.
- Ability to write scripts or automation in Python, Go, or a similar language.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain security risks to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- A practical, collaborative approach to balancing security requirements with business needs.
- A degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Additional experience we value:

- Supporting customer security questionnaires, enterprise security reviews, or security-related contract discussions.
- Coordinating penetration tests and working with engineering teams to remediate findings.
- Implementing DDoS protection, web application firewalls, or endpoint detection and response tools.
- Working in a growing SaaS company.

What success looks like:

- Security initiatives deliver measurable improvements across our cloud, endpoint, and application environments.
- Vulnerabilities and assessment findings are prioritized appropriately and resolved within agreed timelines.
- Compliance evidence is accurate, organized, and available when needed.
- Customers and partners receive timely, consistent, and well-supported security responses.
- Engineering and business teams have a trusted security partner who helps them make informed decisions.

Ambient.ai is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Ambient does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ambient is an E-Verify participant.

## About Ambient.ai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ambient.ai provides an AI-powered agentic physical security platform that transforms existing camera and access control infrastructure into a unified intelligence layer to prevent security incidents in real time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Shikhar Shrestha (CEO) and Vikesh Khanna (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered enterprise physical security (category creator of “Agentic Physical Security”)
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises with 1,000–100,000+ employees, including Fortune 500 companies, top U.S. technology firms, healthcare systems, educational institutions, data centers, and critical infrastructure operators. B2B, security teams (CSOs, CISOs, SOC managers).
- **Mission**: Prevent every security incident possible.

## Products & Services
- **Ambient Foundation (Base Platform)**: Always‑on situational awareness layer that unifies cameras, access systems, and sensors. Features Agentic Video Walls, Semantic Search (natural‑language video querying), multi‑site management, and PACS Visual Previews.
- **Ambient Advanced Forensics**: Compresses investigations from hours/days to seconds. Includes Similarity Search, License Plate Recognition, and Incident Timeline creation – up to 20× faster investigation speed.
- **Ambient Access Intelligence**: Agentic solution for access control monitoring. Links access control alarms with visual context to auto‑validate events, eliminating 90–95% of false alarms (DFO/DHO events) and saving up to $500K annually.
- **Ambient Threat Detection**: Real‑time threat analysis with 150+ validated threat signatures (perimeter breaches, tailgating, assault, brandished firearms, loitering, etc.). Contextual Threat Analysis Engine interprets intent; 90% of alerts resolved in under one minute.
- **Ambient Pulsar (Vision‑Language Model)**: The industry’s first always‑on, edge‑optimized reasoning VLM purpose‑built for physical security. Trained on 1M+ hours of ethically sourced enterprise video, NVIDIA‑accelerated, continuously learning.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with strategic investment from Allegion Ventures (largest check Allegion has written). Also backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel, and individual investors including Jyoti Bansal (AppDynamics), George Kurtz (CrowdStrike), Frederic Kerrest (Okta), and Mark Leslie (Veritas).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: a16z (led Series A & B), Allegion Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel.
- **Growth Signals**: 4×+ top‑line and customer growth since emerging from stealth in 2022. Used by most of the top 10 U.S. technology companies and multiple Fortune 500 organizations. Recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star, YC Top Company, and SIW Reader’s Choice Awards winner.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category creator** of Agentic Physical Security – distinct from legacy video analytics or AI‑powered cameras.
- **Hybrid edge+cloud architecture**: processes video on‑premise (raw video never leaves customer environment) while providing centralized cloud SOC console; works with 200+ ONVIF‑compliant IP camera brands and integrates with major VMS/PACS providers (Genetec, Milestone, LenelS2, Honeywell Pro‑Watch).
- **Privacy‑by‑design**: no facial recognition, no PII stored, SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR/CCPA‑aligned.
- **Purpose‑built VLM (Ambient Pulsar)** enables real‑time temporal reasoning and open‑set threat understanding at machine speed.
- **Proven outcomes**: 90–95% false alarm reduction, 20× faster investigations, up to $500K annual labor savings.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale enterprise adoption**: expanding beyond top tech companies into healthcare, education, financial services, energy, manufacturing, defense, and government.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: continuous improvement of Ambient Pulsar and expansion of threat signature library.
- **Agentic autonomy**: moving toward more autonomous response (escalation, dispatch, talkdown) while keeping humans in the loop.

## Why Work Here
Culture and benefits information sourced from [ambient.ai/careers](https://www.ambient.ai/careers):
- **Mission‑driven**: “If improving lives through technology is what gets you up in the morning” – team directly prevents school shootings, robberies, and asset theft.
- **Perks & benefits**: 95% medical premium coverage, 75% dental & vision, 401K (pre‑tax/Roth via Guideline), Flexible PTO, early stock option exercise via Employee Incentive Plan.
- **Culture**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), team outings (hiking, good food, celebrating with music), “We’re serious about our jobs—but we’re people too.”
- **Engineering culture**: Built on frontier AI (vision‑language models, edge computing); founders are Stanford AI researchers. Small but growing team (~140+ employees). Emphasis on innovation, autonomy, and real‑world impact.
- **Work model**: Not explicitly stated as remote/hybrid/office; careers page lists open roles globally. Redwood City HQ likely onsite or hybrid.

## Sources
1. [ambient.ai - Homepage](https://www.ambient.ai/)
2. [ambient.ai - Careers](https://www.ambient.ai/careers)
3. [ambient.ai - About](https://www.ambient.ai/about)
4. [ambient.ai - AI Info (structured data)](https://www.ambient.ai/ai-info)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Ambient.ai Job Board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambient.ai)

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