Member of Technical Staff (Security, Engineering, Research)

The role

This person will design and operationalize security architectures for an SL5 datacenter. They will perform threat modeling, red-teaming, and build custom security tooling for frontier AI workloads.

What you will do

• Designing and operationalizing network, machine, physical, personnel, or supply chain security for an SL5 datacenter
• Threat modeling AI training infrastructure against nation-state adversaries
• Red-teaming critical AI infrastructure
• Designing and running experiments to assess productivity impacts of SL5 on frontier AI workloads
• Building custom security tooling for SL5 requirements
• Co-developing standards with labs and government stakeholders
• Publishing research for technical and policy audiences

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in one of: infrastructure security engineering, security research, threat intelligence, or red-teaming
• Or 2+ years building and stress-testing training infrastructure at a frontier AI lab
• Have shipped or compromised production systems
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Familiarity with SOTA of performance-optimized frontier AI training and inference infrastructure
• Experience with offensive or defensive nation state operations
• Experience building datacenters at 100MW+ scale

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.