Senior IT and Operations Manager

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Redwood City, CA
In-Office
130K-165K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Security • Software
The Role
The role involves managing IT infrastructure, administering systems, providing end-user support, and managing vendor relationships to ensure smooth operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

Build a safer world with us, one incident at a time.
Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform helping the world’s leading enterprises reduce risk, improve operational efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies, along with multiple Fortune 500 organizations, rely on Ambient.ai to modernize their physical security infrastructure.

Our platform uses advanced AI and computer vision to seamlessly integrate with existing camera and sensor systems, enabling real-time monitoring and proactive threat detection. By reducing false alarms by over 95%, Ambient.ai allows security teams to focus on real threats and prevent incidents before they occur.

Founded in 2017 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Allegion Ventures, Ambient.ai is a Series B company on a mission to make every security incident preventable.

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About the Role

Ambient.ai is growing fast, and we’re looking for a hands-on Senior IT & Operations Manager to keep our people, devices, and networks humming. This hybrid role blends classic IT systems administration with hardware deployment and vendor coordination. You’ll own day-to-day infrastructure operations, support our employees, and ensure our edge devices and internal systems are secure, reliable, and well-managed.

What You’ll Do

IT Infrastructure Management
  • Oversee daily operations of laptops, workstations, servers, networking gear, and SaaS systems across office and lab environments.

  • Maintain identity and access management, device management, and endpoint security baselines (e.g., MDM, SSO, EDR).

  • Procure, rack/stack, image, and configure PCs, servers, peripherals, and networking equipment.

  • Set up conference rooms, lab benches, cameras/sensors, and demo environments as needed.

  • Diagnose hardware and system issues; coordinate warranty/RMA and perform component-level swaps.

System Administration
  • Administer macOS/Windows/Linux endpoints and lab/edge systems (user provisioning, hardening, policies, imaging).

  • Manage networking services (e.g., DNS/DHCP, file shares, VPN, Wi-Fi, VLANs, RBAC).

  • Create and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and architecture/asset documentation.

End-User IT Support
  • Provide empathetic, high-signal support for employees (in-person and remote) across devices, apps, and access.

  • Manage the service desk queue (SLAs, triage, escalation), and produce clear user-facing guides.

Vendor & Asset Management
  • Own vendor relationships for devices, parts, and services; negotiate quotes and coordinate onsite work.

  • Track inventory, licenses, and lifecycle (procurement to decommissioning) with accurate asset records.

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.

Top Skills

Dhcp
Dns
Edr
Linux
macOS
Mdm
Sso
Vlans
Vpn
Wi-Fi
Windows
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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
105 Employees
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming enterprise security operations to prevent security incidents before they happen. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver continuous physical security monitoring and automate the immediate dispatch of human resources. Ambient.ai is the first platform that goes beyond basic motion detection and image recognition to achieve near-human perception with automated situational context.

With physical security incidents on the rise and physical security organizations left under-resourced, Ambient.ai’s computer intelligence platform comes at a time of critical need, which is why the company has raised over $50 million from venture capital investors led by a16z. Today, large enterprises, schools and organizations – including many of the largest US tech companies and other Fortune 500 companies – use Ambient.ai to secure property, people, and assets from the most harrowing physical security threats.

The company was founded in 2017 by experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, Y Combinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie and Elad Gil.

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