Security Level 5
Standards Researcher
San Francisco, CA. Posted 3 months ago
The role
This person will research open questions behind individual controls and draft control text and overlay content. They will support the Standards Lead in stakeholder engagement and document conversation outcomes.
What you will do
- Researching the open questions behind individual controls
- Drafting control text and overlay content
- Maintaining content as the standard revises
- Supporting the Standards Lead in stakeholder engagement
- Writing up what stakeholder conversations settle
Required qualifications
- Have done security research or standards work
- Can read primary sources (NIST, ICD 705, vendor documentation) and synthesize them
- Write clearly and precisely under editorial pressure
- Are comfortable leaving a question open and flagged rather than resolving it prematurely
Benefits
- healthcare
- dental
- vision
- 401k match
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.