Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA (AI)

Location: London, UK; hybrid attendance at the London office at least 3 days a week is expected.

Annual salary: £165,000–£205,000 GBP.

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, law enforcement, regulators, and the press.
• Advise on threat intelligence investigations, bug bounty programs, red-team activities, and safety and security testing.
• Support safeguards, security engineering, ML, and data science teams building tooling and detection mechanisms, including data governance and privacy considerations.
• Provide first-line 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 regulation across relevant jurisdictions.

Requirements

• Qualification to practice law in England & Wales or another relevant jurisdiction.
• Experience advising on fast-moving, high-stakes investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work.
• Working knowledge of at least one of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
• Strong legal drafting and writing skills, including policies, playbooks, escalation protocols, or guidance for non-legal audiences.
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior.
• Experience coordinating time-sensitive, multi-stakeholder responses and communicating legal analysis to technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• 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, machine learning, security research, infrastructure, or threat intelligence.
• Familiarity with AI systems and machine learning concepts, plus strong judgment under uncertainty.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work on large-scale research efforts focused on trustworthy, steerable AI.
• Flexible working hours and a London office designed for collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility.