Staff Security Engineer, Ambience Healthcare
$250-325k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
AI operating system for healthcare
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AI operating system for healthcare
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-325k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To supercharge clinicians with breakthrough generative AI technology.
Role
Who you are
- You have 7+ years (Staff) to 12+ years (Principal) of hands-on security engineering experience. You don’t just find bugs; you design systems that prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities
- At the Staff level, you have led cross-cutting security initiatives and influenced architecture for major product areas
- At the Principal level, you have a track record of defining company-wide security North Stars, mentoring other senior engineers, and shifting the security culture of an entire organization
- Engineering Roots: Strong software engineering fundamentals are a must. You are comfortable reading, writing, and modifying production code in Python, Go, or TypeScript. You view security as an engineering problem, not a compliance checklist
- Proven experience in security architecture and systems hardening across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments
- Hands-on with vulnerability management and penetration testing: identifying, prioritizing, and driving remediation of real risks
- Experience selecting and extending modern security tools for detection, incident response, automation, and threat monitoring
- Strong cloud security background (AWS and/or GCP), including IAM, networking, and secure service design
- Collaborative and pragmatic: able to partner with engineers, influence designs early, and explain security tradeoffs clearly
What the job involves
- Ambience runs real-time clinical workflows inside the most security-sensitive health systems in the country
- That means security can’t be bolted on, it has to be engineered into the product
- As a Staff Security Engineer, you’ll own the systems that protect our platform at scale: application security, cloud security, detection and response, and the security primitives other teams build on
- You’ll design guardrails that make the secure path the default, harden our infrastructure against real threats, and partner with engineering to eliminate entire classes of risk
- This is a builder role. You’ll write code, design systems, and lead cross-cutting security initiatives that directly enable enterprise trust and customer expansion
- Application & Platform Security — Design and implement secure-by-default patterns across our backend and infrastructure. Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in application logic, APIs, and data flows
- Cloud & Infrastructure Security — Own security posture across our cloud environment: IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication
- Detection & Incident Response — Build and operate detection pipelines, alerts, and runbooks. Lead investigations, root cause analysis, and systemic fixes — not just one-off patches
- Security Tooling & Automation — Extend and integrate security tools through code. Automate controls, evidence collection, and remediation to reduce manual work and scale coverage
- Security Architecture & Leadership — Set technical direction for security across teams. Threat model new products, influence designs early, and raise the security bar company-wide
Our take
Healthcare providers often find themselves overwhelmed by administrative duties like form filing and record coding, detracting from their primary focus on patient care. While these tasks are essential for billing and compliance, they are time-consuming and prone to errors.
In response to this challenge, Ambience Healthcare offers an AI-powered "operating system" designed specifically for healthcare organizations. Its suite of tools automates documentation, coding, and referrals, streamlining workflows for clinicians while enhancing accuracy.
With substantial funding, the company is expanding its business in the US and hopes top potentially include diagnosis in the future. While facing competition from startups like Corti and Babla, Ambience is well-positioned with strong investor backing and a clear focus.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2025
$243m
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$70m
SERIES B
Total funding: $343m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikhil Buduma
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Previously co-founded Lean On Me Peer Support where they served as a Board Member for over 8 years and Remedy Health where they served as the Chief Scientist for almost 4 years.
Michael Ng
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Co-Founder and COO of Remedy Health. Was a Product Management MBA Intern at Sumo Logic, and Private Equity Associate at Calera Capital.
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