Safety & Security Counsel (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; hybrid work with at least 3 days per week in the San Francisco office

Annual salary: $265,000–$335,000 USD

Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Advise Safeguards and trust & safety policy teams on usage policies, detection, and enforcement across areas including cyber, CBRNE, user wellbeing, scaled abuse, and influence operations.
• Guide account actions, appeals, enforcement systems, thresholds, sensitive escalations, and strategic responses involving governments, regulators, law enforcement, and the press.
• Advise on threat intelligence investigations, bug bounty programs, red-team exercises, and safety and security testing.
• Support engineering, machine learning, and data science teams developing safety tooling and detection mechanisms, including privacy and data governance considerations.
• Provide real-time legal guidance during safety and security incidents and assess notification and reporting obligations.
• Build crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance while tracking AI safety and security regulations.

Requirements

• JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Experience handling fast-moving, high-stakes investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work.
• Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior.
• Strong legal writing, drafting, risk assessment, and decision-making skills under uncertainty.
• Experience coordinating time-sensitive, multi-stakeholder responses and communicating legal analysis to technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Active membership in the California state bar.
• 4–8+ years of relevant legal experience.
• In-house product counsel experience at a technology company or law firm experience advising technology clients.
• Experience with content moderation, platform safety, crisis management, AI systems, or machine learning.
• Experience working with machine learning, safety and security research, infrastructure, or threat intelligence teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, legal, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.
• Applications are reviewed after the 6pm PT deadline on September 11, 2026.