SL5 Standards Lead

The role

Lead the SL5 standard end to end. You will manage versioning, resolve open questions, and extend mappings to various frameworks across five streams.

What you will do

• Lead versioning, control updates, and cross-stream coherence
• Find and fix flaws in the current version and drive its open questions to resolution
• Extend the mappings to IL6, FedRAMP High, and CNSSI 1253, plus the AI-datacenter and AI-SCIF overlays to ICD 705
• Gather lab, datacenter operator, chip provider, and government feedback, and translate their constraints back into the standard
• Make the required-vs-recommended-vs-deferred calls where security and adoptability conflict
• Set the writing and editorial bar for a document read by both deeply technical and senior policy audiences

Required qualifications

• Have authored, owned, or led a technical standard, control framework, or comparable cross-cutting spec
• Have deep security experience in more than one of: systems/network, physical/personnel, hardware/ML infra, government security frameworks
• Are fluent with NIST 800-53 / ICD 705 / IL6-class frameworks
• Write clearly and precisely for technical and policy readers

Nice to have

• Wrote or operated under classified or high-sensitivity frameworks
• Hold a clearance or are clearance-eligible
• Have standing relationships across frontier labs, the IC, or datacenter/chip supply chains
• Owned a standard that had to be both secure and adoptable under real cost and speed pressure

Benefits

• 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.