About the Role
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 designing and building the first datacenter purpose-built to Security Level 5, the standard for defending frontier AI labs against attackers with the resources of a nation-state and billion-dollar budgets.
Responsibilities
- Setting up and running our SF office, including move-in, selection and procurement, build-out, and day-to-day operations.
- Coordinating suppliers, vendors, food, and access management for the office.
- Owning events end to end, including happy hours, conference logistics, and quarterly onsites.
- Serving as the space's point of contact for external organizations hosting events.
- Managing event logistics, speaker and attendee coordination, space, AV, and food.
- Building systems to streamline future events, including creating templates, checklists, and budgets.
- Developing documentation to help members seamlessly use the space.
- Owning tooling and everyday norms for the space, including managing event and office tools.
- Maintaining living documents for everyday policies such as expenses, travel, and calendar management.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in office management, events, operations, or executive support.
- Experience ideally at a startup or high-performing nonprofit.
- Experience owning both a physical space and an events program is a plus.
- Ability to run several events at different planning stages without losing threads.
- Process-oriented while also being instance-oriented.
- Service-minded and comfortable with repetition.
- Motivated by impact over glamour.
- Habitually asking whether this is the highest-value thing to be doing right now.
- Willingness to work flexible hours when hosting events.
- A desire to help AI develop safely, with a realistic understanding of its potential and risks.
Skills
- Office management
- Event planning and execution
- Operations management
- Executive support
- Vendor management
- Logistics coordination
- Budget management
- Tooling and systems management
- Policy development and maintenance
Location
- Bay Area
Work Type
- In-person
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $160,000 USD per year
Benefits
- Full benefits
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k match
About the Company
- Security Level 5 is a Bay Area AI security nonprofit.
- We work with AI labs and US intelligence agencies.
- Our goal is to defend frontier models from priority nation-state-level threats.
- We are tripling headcount this year.
- We are designing and building the first datacenter purpose-built to Security Level 5.
- We wrote the first version of the standard with input from CISOs, senior security staff at frontier labs, and US security and intelligence officials.
- We are aiming for an at-scale SL5 datacenter build in 2027.
