Regulatory Counsel (AI Regulation)

Location: Hybrid; must be able to work from the San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week.

Annual salary: $335,000–$385,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Lead in-house regulatory counsel work for US AI regulation, including applicability analysis, regulatory readiness, day-to-day advice, and compliance-program design.
• Own US regulatory compliance deliverables such as safety and transparency frameworks, model documentation, and incident-reporting requirements.
• Track US federal, state, and relevant international legislative, regulatory, and standards developments and design compliance approaches ahead of new obligations.
• Advise Legal, Compliance, Safety, Security, Policy, Research, product, and business teams by translating complex requirements into practical guidance and scalable programs.
• Support engagement with regulators, enforcement agencies, and standards bodies, including notifications, information requests, reporting obligations, comment letters, and regulatory submissions.
• Partner with litigation and regulatory investigations teams and contribute to global frontier AI regulatory work where it intersects with US obligations.

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one US state bar.
• Hands-on experience advising a technology business, either in-house or at a leading law firm, on emerging regulatory regimes from initial statutory analysis through a documented compliance position and shipped artifact.
• Experience engaging with regulators, enforcement agencies, or standards bodies in a non-contentious supervisory capacity.
• Experience drafting regulatory compliance deliverables, including compliance policies, regulatory submissions, or published compliance frameworks.
• Ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly to technical, policy, product, and business audiences.
• Minimum education is a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience; the required field of study must be relevant to the role through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice to have

• 8–12 years of regulatory legal experience with substantive depth in technology regulation and hands-on exposure to AI-specific frameworks.
• Direct experience with frontier AI regulatory regimes, including California SB 53, the Colorado AI Act, the EU AI Act, or the GPAI Code of Practice.
• Experience at a frontier AI company, large technology platform, or hyper-scaling technology business operating under novel regulatory regimes.
• Familiarity with privacy and data protection, consumer protection, product safety, export controls, model evaluation, capability testing, or AI safety concepts.
• A background combining private practice and in-house experience.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to develop novel compliance approaches without established precedent.
• Strong organizational skills for running multiple workstreams and keeping compliance artifacts current without prompting.
• Excellence at cross-functional collaboration, passion for responsible AI development, and understanding of how to build constructive long-term relationships with regulators and standards bodies.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment spanning research, engineering, policy, legal, compliance, safety, security, and product 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 reasonable efforts to support successful candidates and access to an immigration lawyer.
• Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on responsible, trustworthy, and steerable AI research and development.