About the Role
Security Level 5 is an AI security nonprofit dedicated to defending frontier AI models against nation-state threats. This role involves designing and building the first datacenter purpose-built to the Security Level 5 standard, a critical challenge in AI security engineering.
Responsibilities
- Designing and operating the network fabric of the environment, including switch configuration, segmentation, and controlled links.
- Implementing an egress bandwidth limiter.
- Building gateways and tunnels for remote media stations and remote users.
- Owning the identity and trust layer, including signing/PKI services, domain services, and audit logging.
Requirements
- Experience turning a trust boundary on paper into an enforced one in practice (e.g., configuring segmentation/egress controls and verifying via counters, logs, or testing).
- Experience running identity, PKI/code signing, or similar services in an on-prem or disconnected environment.
- Ability to employ a security mindset to ensure design properties are translated to reality.
Location
- Bay Area
Work Type
- In-person
Experience Level
- Highly experienced employees may be paid more
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $350,000 USD per year
Benefits
- Full benefits, including healthcare, dental, vision, 401k match, and more.
About the Company
- Security Level 5 is a Bay Area AI security nonprofit working with AI labs and US intelligence agencies to defend frontier models from priority nation-state-level threats.
- We are tripling headcount this year.
- We wrote the first version of the standard with input from CISOs and senior security staff at the frontier labs, and US security and intelligence officials.
- We are designing the SL5 architectures purpose-built for frontier AI workloads, and standing up the reference tech stack to guide labs' buildouts.
- This stack has to hold against nation-states, not destroy researchers' productivity, not cost more than labs can pay, and ship in 2-3 years.
