Member of Technical Staff (Secure Infrastructure and Platform)

The role

You will design and build the SL5 prototype compute platform by setting up racks, configuring networks, and managing device security. You will also develop security standards and publish research for technical and policy audiences.

What you will do

• Designing and standing up the SL5 prototype compute platform
• Setting up racks, configuring networks and device security policy and attestation
• Managing imaging, enrollment, and build servers
• Implementing deny-all, permit-by-exception execution with no live internet
• Managing measured boot, signed images, and allow-listing enforcement
• Making the platform fast and usable for researchers despite constraints
• Co-developing infrastructure and machine-security sections of the SL5 standard
• Publishing research for technical and policy audiences

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale such as cloud platform, SRE, datacenter, or ML infra
• Or 2+ years building and stress-testing training infrastructure at a frontier AI lab
• Comfortable with secure boot, attestation, code signing, key management, image/build pipelines, and network segmentation
• Worked in or can reason about environments where the internet is not available and the host cannot be trusted
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience with confidential computing, TEEs, or accelerator security features
• Experience running air-gapped, classified, or other high-side environments
• Building cross-domain / data-diode transfer systems
• Existing security clearances or clearance eligibility
• Experience where infrastructure speed and security were in direct tension

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.