Safety & Security Counsel

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, focused on creating 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.

• 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, sensitive escalations involving governments, law enforcement, regulators, and the press, and safety and security threat intelligence investigations, bug bounty and red-team programs.
• 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, and 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 and translate them into practical guidance for our evolving product suite.

Qualifications: A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California bar preferred); 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; 4-8+ years of relevant legal experience preferred; in-house product counsel or law firm experience on security and/or trust & safety issues preferred.

Compensation: Annual Salary: $265,000—$335,000 USD.

Location and hybrid: This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco office at least 3 days a week.

Application: Application deadline: 6pm PT on Friday September 11, 2026. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.