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Staff Security Engineer

Ambience Healthcare
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/16/2025 CLOSED ON 4/15/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Security Engineer position at Ambience Healthcare?

About Us :

Ambience is developing the most capable AI systems for healthcare and medicine. As healthcare costs soar to 17.3% of US GDP and a projected shortage of 100,000 physicians within the next decade, the need for AI is critical. Our frontline healthcare workers are overwhelmed, with only 27% of the average clinician's day spent on direct patient care.

Our vision is to equip every healthcare worker with an advanced AI co-pilot. We believe that people, augmented by AI, will enable us to deliver higher quality healthcare at a lower cost, improving the experience for everyone involved.

Headquartered in San Francisco, we have secured $100M in funding from top investors, including Kleiner Perkins, OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Optum Ventures, Human Capital, and Martin Ventures. We collaborate with leading AI experts such as Jeff Dean, Richard Socher, Pieter Abbeel, and AIX Ventures.

Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers, technologists, clinicians, and innovators.

The Staff Security Engineer will own and lead the company's technical security posture, ensuring the secure design, development, and deployment of systems and applications. They will work closely with the engineering team to embed security into the product lifecycle, proactively assess and mitigate risks, and implement scalable security processes. Over the first 6-12 months, this role will establish automated security solutions, drive vulnerability management, and ensure Ambience's ability to adapt to a rapidly evolving threat landscape, supporting its growth and innovation in the healthtech space.

What You'll Do

  • Own the Technical Security Posture, integrating security best practices deeply within the engineering team. Additionally, you'll establish and lead technical processes for assessing and mitigating security risks.
  • Collaborate with the engineering team to build Security into the product development lifecycle, ensuring secure design practices, conduct code reviews, and vulnerability management.
  • Manage vulnerabilities and incident response , establishing a formal process for identifying, assessing, and remediating vulnerabilities, and lead incident response when security threats or breaches occur.
  • Gather product requirements, interpret compliance and contract security requirements, and extract design requirements from legal and contract stakeholders to support development teams.

Who You Are

  • 5 years of hands-on experience in Security or Software Engineering, with a strong focus on securing complex technical environments, preferably in high-growth tech or healthtech sectors.
  • Proven track record in security architecture and systems hardening , with experience designing secure infrastructure and embedding security best practices across applications and systems.
  • Expertise in vulnerability management and penetration testing , with the ability to identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities. Experience conducting and interpreting pen tests to reduce risks.
  • Experience choosing modern security tools, for various security needs including automation, incident response, or threat detection.
  • Strong collaboration and leadership skills , with the ability to work closely with engineering teams to embed security into the development lifecycle. Comfortable explaining security concepts to non-security teams, especially engineers.
  • Solid understanding of cloud security (e.g., AWS, GCP) and experience securing cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Ability to work in-person 3x / week out of our SF office : We operate a hybrid work model where engineers work in-person 3x / week from our SF office.
  • Pay Transparency

    We offer a base compensation range of approximately $200,000-$240,000 per year, along with meaningful equity. This intentionally broad range provides flexibility for candidates to tailor their cash and equity mix based on individual preferences. Our compensation philosophy prioritizes meaningful equity grants, enabling team members to share directly in the impact they help create. If your expectations fall outside of this range, we still encourage you to apply-our approach to compensation considers a range of factors to ensure alignment with each candidate's unique needs and preferences.

    Being at Ambience :

  • An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology, on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients
  • Dedicated budget for personal development, including access to world class mentors, advisors, and an in-house executive coach
  • Work alongside a world-class, diverse team that is deeply mission aligned
  • Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company
  • Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, paid maternity / paternity leave, quarterly retreats, unlimited PTO, and a 401(k) plan
  • li-remote

    Salary : $200,000 - $240,000

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