Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA

Anthropic's mission is to create 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 safety and security-related regulatory and policy engagement. You will frequently be the one ideating and building legally-relevant frameworks rather than simply applying one, and will own and shape a portfolio of issue areas across Safeguards and Security, contributing to capacity building 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 first-line legal contact for safety and security incidents, providing real-time guidance during incident response and assessing notification and reporting obligations under applicable legal frameworks and contractual commitments.
• Build and maintain crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance to enable legal resource scaling.
• Stay abreast of key policy and regulatory developments in AI safety and security across relevant jurisdictions and translate them into practical guidance.

• Qualification to practice law in Ireland, or another relevant jurisdiction.
• Legal drafting and advisory experience producing written guidance, policy language, and risk assessments for business and technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
• Experience with fast-moving, high-stakes matters such as investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work.
• Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior.
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses to time-sensitive matters and translating legal analysis into clear, actionable steps.

• 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, machine learning concepts, or experience advising on novel technology products.

Annual Salary: €210,000—€280,000 EUR.

Application deadline: 6pm PT on Friday September 11, 2026. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline. For this role, staff are expected to work from the Dublin office at least 3 days a week. Anthropic sponsors visas and retains an immigration lawyer to assist.