About the Role
Security Level 5 is an AI security nonprofit dedicated to defending frontier 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
- Researching open questions behind individual security controls.
- Drafting control text and overlay content, and maintaining it as the standard revises.
- Supporting the Standards Lead in stakeholder engagement and documenting outcomes.
Requirements
- Experience in security research or standards work.
- Ability to read primary sources (NIST, ICD 705, vendor documentation) and synthesize information.
- Clear and precise writing skills under editorial pressure.
- Comfort with leaving questions open and flagged rather than resolving them prematurely.
Location
- Bay Area
Work Type
- In-person
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $200,000 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.
