Safety & Security Counsel

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco building reliable, interpretable, and steerable 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. You will work collaboratively with other legal functions on cross-functional initiatives.

• Partner with Safeguards (trust & safety) policy teams on the design and iteration of usage policies across harm areas, 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 data governance and privacy 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.
• Build and maintain crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance.
• Stay abreast of key policy and regulatory developments in AI safety and security across relevant jurisdictions.

Minimum: 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; technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior; legal writing and drafting skills; experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses to time-sensitive matters; strong judgment about risk assessment and decision-making under uncertainty.

Preferred: Active membership in the California state bar; 4-8+ years of relevant legal experience; in-house (product counsel) experience at a technology company working on security and/or trust & safety issues, or law firm experience advising tech clients on regulatory investigations or enforcement matters; experience with content moderation, platform safety, or crisis management; facility working with very technical teams; familiarity with AI systems, machine learning concepts, or experience advising on novel technology products.

Annual salary: $265,000—$335,000 USD. Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space.

Application deadline: 6pm PT on Friday September 11, 2026. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline. Anthropic sponsors visas and retains an immigration lawyer to help. The role expects staff to work from the San Francisco office at least 3 days a week.