Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.

As Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA, 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 frequently be the one ideating and building a legally-relevant framework rather than simply applying one, and will own and shape an ever-growing portfolio of issue areas across Safeguards and Security, including by leveraging Claude.

• Partner with Safeguards (trust & safety) policy teams on the design and iteration of usage policies across harm areas (e.g., CBRNE, cyber, user wellbeing, scaled abuse and influence operations, and distillation), 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 and translate them into practical guidance.

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

• 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 (including user wellbeing issues), and crisis management.
• Facility working with very technical teams, including machine learning, safety and security research, infrastructure, and threat intelligence.
• Familiarity with AI systems and machine learning concepts, or experience advising on novel technology products.
• Strong judgment about risk assessment and decision-making under uncertainty.

Annual Salary: £165,000—£205,000 GBP.

Apply via the Greenhouse posting. Application deadline: 6pm PT on Friday September 11, 2026. This role expects all staff to be able to work from the London office at least 3 days a week.