Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA

About the role

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

What you’ll do

• This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced attorney who wants to do high-stakes, first-of-its-kind work at the center of responsible AI development and deployment, and to grow as a strategic product counsel and trusted crisis counselor in a fast-moving environment.
• 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 as it relates to data governance and privacy related 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 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, and policy-specific domains across relevant jurisdictions, and translate them into practical guidance for our evolving product suite.

What they’re looking for

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• 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 and translating legal analysis into clear actionable steps for technical and executive audiences
• 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
• A low-ego, hands-on working style and a commitment to doing right by users and the people affected by misuse of AI systems
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience