Surveillance and threat detection startups hiring now

ICEYE

Espoo, FI · Late Stage Venture

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management.

144 open roles3% remote

Chaos

Los Angeles, US · Series D

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. Its flagship platform, HYDRA, harnesses the CDN framework to deliver software-defined multi-domain capabilities across land, sea, and air environments while integrating with existing infrastructure under constrained conditions.

112 open roles2% remote

Echodyne

Kirkland, US

#### Echodyne’s proprietary metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA) is a rare technology breakthrough in radar design and manufacturing. Echodyne’s radar solutions are trusted by Defense, Government, and Commercial customers as the foundation for better situational awareness and safer outcomes. #### Echodyne proudly designs and manufactures its high-quality radars in its facilities outside Seattle, WA.

43 open roles12% remote

Saildrone

Alameda, US

Saildrone designs, manufactures, and operates a fleet of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) that collect data, surveillance, and seafloor insight from the world's oceans. Its USVs are equipped with advanced sensors and proprietary AI to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for military, homeland security, and commercial customers.

28 open roles20% remote

Turing AI

Berlin, DE · Seed

Turing AI provides an AI-native cloud platform that turns every camera into an intelligent sensor for real-time detection, search, and response at scale.

27 open roles50% remote

Air Space Intelligence

Boston, US · Series B

Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is a dual-use software company that deploys predictive AI to complex operating environments. Its first product, Flyways AI, is an AI-powered air operations platform for airspace surveillance, flight monitoring and optimization.

27 open roles14% remote

Cambridge Aerospace

Cambridge, GB · Series C

Cambridge Aerospace develops low-cost interceptor systems for drones, cruise missiles, and other aerial threats. Its products include Skyhammer, a modular interceptor designed for drones and cruise missiles, and Starhammer, a high-speed interceptor for higher-value missile threats.

26 open roles4% remote

Epirus

Torrance, US · Series D

Epirus develops solid-state, software-defined high-power microwave (HPM) systems for counter-drone and electronic warfare applications.

23 open roles0% remote

Dataminr

New York City, US · Series F

Dataminr's AI platform delivers the earliest warnings on high impact events and critical information far in advance of other sources. Its pioneering multi-modal fusion AI synthesizes text in 150 languages, image, video, audio, and sensor signals across 1M+ public data sources to deliver the fastest, most accurate real-time event detection.

22 open roles90% remote

Kela

Tel Aviv, IL

Kela is a secure, open platform enabling rapid and seamless integration of commercial and military systems in service of Western defense. Kela is a developer of an AI-based system for management of defense systems.

22 open roles0% remote

Ambient.ai

Redwood City, US · Series B · YC W17

Ambient.ai provides an AI-powered enterprise physical security platform. The platform integrates with existing security cameras and access control systems to unify monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations. It uses AI to detect unexpected changes in human behavior and contextual information to identify potential security threats.

21 open roles63% remote

Robin Radar

The Hague, NL

Robin Radar Systems is recognized for its 360°, 3D radar technology designed to detect and track small airborne objects, including drones.

20 open roles0% remote

Singularity Defense

El Segundo, US

We build counter-weapon systems that protect warfighters and civilians.

19 open roles

Gridware

San Francisco, US · Series B · YC W21

Gridware provides a grid-intelligence platform that gives utilities real-time visibility into the physical, electrical, and environmental conditions of their overhead infrastructure. Its core product, GridScope, is a small solar-powered sensor mounted on utility poles that continuously monitors mechanical vibrations, electrical activity, and ambient stressors even during outages.

18 open roles11% remote

Unseenlabs

Rennes, FR

Unseenlabs provides space-based radio frequency detection for maritime domain awareness.

16 open roles0% remote

Behavox

London, GB · Late Stage Venture

Behavox provides an AI compliance and conduct surveillance platform for financial institutions.

15 open roles0% remote

Alertus Technologies

Baltimore, US

[Alertus](https://www.alertus.com/about) ’ team of safety, security, and technology leaders is committed to raising the bar for mass emergency notification systems.

15 open roles0% remote

Picogrid

El Segundo, US · Series A

Picogrid builds hardware and software products that connect sensors, unmanned platforms, and digital systems for unified control and data flow in defense and industrial environments. Its platform integrates sensors, platforms, and operators across land, sea, air, and space.

14 open roles0% remote

Flock Safety

Atlanta, US · Series I · YC S17

Flock Safety builds an integrated public safety platform that includes License Plate Readers, AI-powered video cameras, gunshot detection, and Drone As First Responder technology.

14 open roles79% remote

Furientis

El Segundo, US · Pre Seed

Furientis builds missile-interception systems for defense and government customers.

14 open roles0% remote

Canopy

Palo Alto, US · Series B

Canopy operates in the healthcare safety technology sector, offering a Connected Safety Platform aimed at protecting hospital staff. Canopy serves the healthcare sector, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, and home health services. The company provides products that include wearable safety technology, real-time alerts, and coordinated responses for healthcare workers in various environments.

13 open roles89% remote

Laelaps AI

Laelaps AI develops an autonomous security platform. The platform supports surveillance and threat detection.

13 open roles0% remote

Andrenam

Hawthorne, US · Series A

Andrenam builds networks of intelligent acoustic buoys that detect, track, and classify everything from submarines to marine life. Andrenam is building an AI-powered, distributed maritime sensing network for persistent awareness from surface to seabed. Its platform combines AI-powered sonar processing, distributed acoustic sensing, edge and cloud computing, autonomous sensor networks, real-time data streaming, underwater target detection, and maritime intelligence into a unified system.

12 open roles33% remote

GenLogs

Arlington, US · Secondary Transaction

GenLogs provides a Truck Intelligence platform that analyzes truck activity data to combat fraud and theft for transportation, logistics, insurance, and government customers.

11 open roles100% remote

Blissway

Denver, US · Series B

Blissway simplifies toll collection and improves highway safety. It eschews gantries and transponders for small roadside devices called Wireless Autonomous Lane Enforcers (WAL-Es) combined with large-scale cloud data analytics. These solutions identify and track vehicles, offering tolling applications such as multi-lane and vehicle classification, express and HOV lane occupancy verification, and interim tolling and disaster recovery.

11 open roles0% remote

Dominion Dynamics

Seed

- Dominion Dynamics develops integrated autonomy, sensing, communications, and command-and-control systems for defence, security, and critical infrastructure.

9 open roles0% remote

Sensi

austin, US · Series C

Sensi provides an audio-based care intelligence system for senior home care. It helps care businesses understand clients' physical, emotional, and cognitive needs around the clock.

8 open roles38% remote

Vizzia

Paris, FR

Vizzia provides a SaaS platform connected to cameras that uses artificial intelligence to detect illegal dumping and provides videos of the detection on a customer portal. The company serves local authorities, helping them address fly-tipping, local safety issues, and anti-social behaviour.

8 open roles0% remote

CameraMatics

dublin 12, IE

CameraMatics provides video telematics and fleet management software for transport operators. Its modular platform uses cameras and AI to monitor vehicle surroundings and warn drivers about vulnerable road users.

8 open roles50% remote

Distributed Spectrum

New York City, US

Distributed Spectrum builds software and sensors to let anyone identify critical radio signals across defense missions. The company collects radio data from all over the world, trains neural networks to decipher it, and runs them on small chips.

8 open roles13% remote