Ambient.ai is a leading computer vision intelligence company. Successfully transforming security operations for large enterprises by preventing security incidents before they happen. Ambient.ai has a globally deployed footprint with a number of F500 companies. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver continuous physical security monitoring and detect threats in real-time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to focus efficiently on legitimate threats and on rapid response. The future of enterprise physical security is data-driven, intelligent, and proactive. Companies no longer have to choose between reducing operating expenses or mitigating risk. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less while also improving their security posture.
The company was founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna. They are experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford University, who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. We are a Series-B company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, YCombinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil.Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021 and 2022 and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We are always looking for passionate people who enjoy tackling the toughest problems with cutting-edge AI/ML.
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Who is Ambient.ai? Mission-driven: we're ready to transform an industryBuilders: we work as a collaborative team to turn the impossible into the inevitable Breakthrough thinkers: we were built on and believe in breakthroughsCustomer-focused: we pride ourselves on creating magical customer experiencesFast-paced: our customer's cameras are always on, and we're responsive to the needs of a 24/7 operationInclusive: we value our people and want Ambient.ai to be an inclusive place where you can do your best work
Position Overview:Reporting to Kiran Palan, you will lead a team of passionate, talented engineers that are building products that are reshaping the physical security industry. As an Engineering Leader, you're responsible for developing the overall concepts of new products while supporting the growth of current products. You will help define our growth strategy while working closely with Product Managers to align strategy and process and deliver against the product roadmap.In this role, you will align internal business partners and leadership around this plan and partner with cross-functional teams to execute this plan. You will play an active part in measuring and owning the quality and experience of the product while maintaining agility. What you will contribute:- Implementing and training deep neural networks to solve a variety of computer vision problems, such as object detection, semantic scene segmentation, human pose estimation, activity recognition, etc.
- Pushing the state of the art on standard computer vision tasks with massive proprietary video data.
- Building and maintaining the infrastructure for training and deploying models, including massive data pipelines, experiment management platform, visualization tools, etc.
- Optimizing runtime efficiency of models for deployment.
- Complete ownership of data assets and annotation efforts.
What you bring to Ambient.ai:- BS / MS / PhD in Computer Science / Mathematics or related field.
- At least 3 years of experience shipping state-of-the-art deep learning models in production or novel research in computer vision.
- Holistic understanding of deep learning concepts, state of the art in computer vision research and the mathematics of machine learning.
- Experience training a variety of popular deep learning architectures, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) etc.
- Proficiency in at least one of the popular computational and deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, Caffe, Theano, etc.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and Python.
- Proven track record of high-quality engineering output (side projects, internships, research projects, full-time jobs etc.).
- The ability and the desire to work in the dynamic environment of an early-stage company.
Why join us:- We are creating an entirely new category within a 180+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible
- We have an impressive customer roster of F500 companies, including Adobe, VMware, and Linkedin
- Regular Full-time employees receive stock options for the opportunity to sha