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
- Designing experiments to measure the effect of SL5 controls on ML research and engineering workflows.
- Forecasting 2028 frontier workloads and their infrastructure implications.
- Running experiments at scale and interpreting results for a frontier-scale audience.
Requirements
- Experience training models at an AI lab or equivalent.
- Current knowledge of frontier AI methods and infrastructure.
- Familiarity with the multi-node jobs, accelerators, orchestration, storage, and data pipelines in the training stack.
- Ability to design experiments that yield meaningful answers.
- Comfort working at small scale as a proxy for frontier scale and reasoning about proxy limitations.
Location
- Bay Area
Work Type
- In-person
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.
- We work with AI labs and US intelligence agencies.
- We are focused on defending frontier models from priority nation-state-level threats.
- We are tripling headcount this year.
- We aim for an at-scale SL5 datacenter build in 2027.
- We wrote the first version of the SL5 standard with input from industry and government officials.
- We are designing SL5 architectures purpose-built for frontier AI workloads.
- We are standing up the reference tech stack to guide labs' buildouts.
