CBRNE Safeguards & Enforcement Operations Specialist

CBRNE Safeguards & Enforcement Operations Specialist

Location: San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC; or New York, NY preferred | Remote considered for exceptional candidates

Contract: 6-month W2 contract

Pay: $130-$145/hour, based on experience

Russell Tobin is supporting a leading AI technology company in hiring a CBRNE Safeguards & Enforcement Operations Specialist to support a highly sensitive and rapidly evolving safety and security program.

This is an urgent contract need focused on strengthening Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) controls across trusted-access and third-party enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will bring deep subject-matter expertise in CBRNE risk, safeguards, compliance, enforcement, or threat mitigation and will be comfortable translating complex safety requirements into practical operational controls.

What You'll Do

• Support the development, implementation, and operation of safeguards designed to mitigate CBRNE-related risks.
• Help establish and enforce controls governing trusted access to sensitive capabilities, systems, or information.
• Evaluate third-party and enterprise use cases for potential CBRNE safety, security, misuse, or compliance concerns.
• Develop operational procedures for identifying, escalating, investigating, and responding to potential policy or safeguards violations.
• Translate CBRNE subject-matter expertise into clear, actionable controls that can be consistently applied by operational teams.
• Partner cross-functionally with safety, security, policy, legal, technical, and operational stakeholders.
• Assess emerging CBRNE threat scenarios and identify gaps in existing safeguards or enforcement processes.
• Support risk reviews, investigations, exception handling, and other high-sensitivity operational decisions.
• Develop documentation, playbooks, escalation criteria, and decision frameworks for CBRNE-related cases.
• Provide expert judgment in situations where established policies may not fully address novel or rapidly evolving risks.

What We're Looking For

• Significant professional experience in CBRNE, CBRN, counterproliferation, weapons-of-mass-destruction risk, biosecurity, chemical security, nuclear security, explosives risk, or a closely related field.
• Strong understanding of safeguards, threat assessment, risk mitigation, compliance, enforcement, or access-control frameworks.
• Experience applying specialized subject-matter expertise within an operational environment rather than solely conducting academic or theoretical research.
• Ability to evaluate ambiguous or novel risk scenarios and make sound, defensible judgments.
• Experience developing or implementing policies, controls, standard operating procedures, investigative processes, or enforcement frameworks.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to translate highly technical or specialized concepts for cross-functional audiences.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment involving sensitive and potentially high-consequence issues.
• High degree of discretion, judgment, and attention to detail.

Preferred Background

Candidates may come from a range of relevant environments, including:

• U.S. government or national security organizations
• CBRNE/WMD programs
• Counterproliferation or nonproliferation
• Defense or intelligence
• Homeland security or emergency preparedness
• Biosecurity or biosafety
• Chemical, radiological, or nuclear security
• Threat assessment or safeguards enforcement
• Trust & safety, investigations, or security operations involving high-consequence risk

Experience working at the intersection of emerging technology, AI safety, cybersecurity, or technology risk is a strong plus but is not required.

Work Arrangement

• Candidates located in San Francisco, Washington, DC, or New York City who can work from an office are strongly preferred. Remote candidates may be considered for an exceptional fit.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.

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