SL5 Standards Lead is open at Security Level 5 in San Francisco, CA. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $240K. Posted on Jun 23, 2026, and still on Security Level 5’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
Lead the SL5 standard end to end. It's a NIST SP 800-53 overlay, with physical requirements from ICD 705, supply chain from NIST 800-161, across five streams: network, physical, machine, personnel, supply chain. The current version is a v0.1 draft with open questions and a roadmap of mappings (DoD IL6, FedRAMP High, CNSSI 1253). Keep it technically coherent and drive it from draft to something labs actually adopt…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Security Level 5’s careers page.
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