Safety & Security Counsel
San Francisco, CA
Posted 1d ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Anthropic is seeking a Safety & Security Counsel to serve as the primary legal advisor for ensuring the safety and security of Claude and the company. This role involves advising on usage policy design and enforcement, safeguards research and development, misuse detection and response, sensitive escalations, threat intelligence, security incident response, and product safety matters. The position requires ideating and building legally-relevant frameworks for novel, interdisciplinary issues. The successful candidate will shape an evolving portfolio of issue areas, contribute to team capacity building, and collaborate with other legal functions on cross-functional initiatives. This is an opportunity for an experienced attorney to engage in high-stakes, pioneering work at the intersection of responsible AI development and deployment, growing as a strategic product counsel and crisis counselor in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Safeguards policy teams on usage policies for various harm areas and their translation into detection and enforcement.
- Advise on policy enforcement frameworks, including account actions, appeals, and enforcement systems.
- Counsel on sensitive escalations and strategic responses involving governments, law enforcement, regulators, and the press.
- Advise on threat intelligence investigations, bug bounty programs, red-team exercises, and safety/security testing.
- Support engineering, ML, and data science teams in developing new tooling and detection mechanisms, considering data governance and privacy.
- Serve as the first-line legal contact for safety and security incidents, providing real-time guidance and assessing notification obligations.
- Develop crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance.
- Monitor and translate AI safety, security, and policy developments into practical guidance for product evolution.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- Legal experience with fast-moving, high-stakes matters such as investigations, regulatory issues, crisis management, or enforcement.
- Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation, with the ability to quickly learn new areas.
- Sufficient technical fluency to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior, with a curiosity for new concepts.
- Legal writing and drafting skills to produce policy language, escalation protocols, crisis playbooks, and self-serve guidance for non-legal audiences.
- Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses to time-sensitive matters and translating legal analysis into actionable steps.
- Strong judgment for risk assessment and decision-making under uncertainty.