Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA
€210k - €280k • Dublin, IE
Posted 1d ago
About the job
Anthropic is seeking a Safety & Security Counsel for EMEA to be the primary legal advisor for keeping Claude and Anthropic safe and secure. This role involves designing and enforcing usage policies, advising on safeguards R&D, misuse detection, threat intelligence, security incident response, and regulatory engagement. The position requires ideating and building legal frameworks for novel, interdisciplinary issues at the forefront of responsible AI development. The successful candidate will shape an evolving portfolio of issue areas, contribute to team capacity building, and collaborate on cross-functional initiatives. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced attorney to engage in high-stakes, pioneering work in responsible AI and grow as a strategic product counsel 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, and safety/security testing.
- Support engineering, ML, and data science teams in building 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 and security policy and regulatory developments into practical guidance.
Requirements
- Qualified to practice law in Ireland or another relevant jurisdiction.
- Experience in legal drafting and advisory work, including policy language and risk assessments.
- Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
- Experience managing fast-moving, high-stakes matters like investigations, regulatory issues, or crisis management.
- Sufficient technical fluency to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior.
- Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses and translating legal analysis for technical and executive audiences.