Team Lead, Ecosystems

The role

You will lead the Ecosystems team of backend and integration engineers. You will manage partner relationships and oversee both PACS integrations and new access control product development.

What you will do

• Hire, manage, and grow a team of backend and integration engineers
• Split team capacity between integration delivery and new product development
• Review designs, unblock debugging, and write code
• Own the PACS integration roadmap with product
• Set up the operating model for integrations in production
• Define architecture and milestones for new access control capabilities
• Act as the primary engineering contact for PACS and hardware partners
• Negotiate API access, SDK support, test hardware, and escalation commitments
• Represent Ambient.ai in partner technical reviews and joint customer escalations

Required qualifications

• Deep experience with access control systems from the software side or hardware side
• 6+ years in software engineering
• 2+ years managing engineers or leading a team as a tech lead with people responsibilities
• Track record of shipping and operating integrations with third-party systems
• Track record of building something new from an early, ambiguous starting point
• Experience owning technical relationships with external partners
• Strong backend and distributed systems judgment
• Clear communication with engineers, product leaders, partner executives, and customers

Nice to have

• Direct experience with PACS, lock, or credential platforms such as LenelS2, C-CURE 9000, Genetec, Brivo, or similar
• Built or led a cloud-managed access control product end-to-end
• Working knowledge of access control protocols and standards: OSDP, Wiegand, BLE and NFC mobile credentials
• IoT platform experience: device provisioning, fleet management, firmware updates, MQTT
• Familiarity with enterprise security buyers and compliance expectations

Benefits

• Stock options
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• EAP
• Legal Services
• 401k plan
• Flexible time off
• Winter Break
• Latest tech and swag

About the company

Ambient.ai is the category creator and leader in Agentic Physical Security. Founded in 2017, the company aims to prevent every security incident possible using a reasoning Vision-Language Model.