Safety & Security Counsel

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

As Safety & Security Counsel, you will serve as the first-line legal advisor counseling on the full arc of keeping Claude and Anthropic safe and secure: usage policy design and enforcement frameworks, safeguards R&D, misuse detection and response, sensitive escalations, threat intelligence, security incident response, product-related safety and security matters, and the company's safety and security-related regulatory and policy engagement. The issues are increasingly interdisciplinary and novel, and you will frequently be the one ideating and building a legally-relevant framework rather than simply applying one.

Depending on interest and experience, you will own and shape an ever-growing portfolio of issue areas across Safeguards and Security. You will also contribute to the team's capacity building efforts, including by leveraging Claude. You will work collaboratively with other legal functions on cross-functional initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced attorney who wants to do high-stakes, first-of-its-kind work at the center of responsible AI development and deployment, and to grow as a strategic product counsel and trusted crisis counselor in a fast-moving environment.

• Partner with Safeguards (trust & safety) policy teams on the design and iteration of usage policies across harm areas (e.g., CBRNE, cyber, user wellbeing, scaled abuse and influence operations, and distillation), including how policies translate into detection and enforcement

• Advise on policy enforcement frameworks such as account actions, appeals, enforcement systems and thresholds

• Counsel on sensitive escalations and strategic response, including matters involving governments, law enforcement, regulators, and the press

• Advise on safety and security threat intelligence investigations, bug bounty and red-team programs, and internal and external safety and security testing arrangements

• Support safeguards and security engineering, ML, and data science teams on building new tooling and detection mechanisms, including as it relates to data governance and privacy related considerations

• Serve as a first-line legal contact for safety and security incidents, providing real-time guidance during incident response and assessing notification and reporting obligations under applicable legal frameworks and contractual commitments

• Build and maintain crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance to enable legal resource scaling

• Stay abreast of key policy and regulatory developments in AI safety and security, and policy-specific domains across relevant jurisdictions, and translate them into practical guidance for our evolving product suite

• A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar

• Legal experience with fast-moving, high-stakes matters such as investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work

• Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation, with the ability to get up to speed quickly in the areas you know less well

• Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior, and the curiosity to learn new concepts fast

• Legal writing and drafting skills sufficient to produce policy language, escalation protocols, crisis playbooks, and self-serve guidance for