# Safety & Security Counsel

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Dublin, Ireland, London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $265k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Trust & Safety, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Platform Regulation, Ai Systems, Machine Learning, Data Governance, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Content Moderation, Red Teaming, Legal Writing
**Posted:** 2026-08-22

> Provides first-line legal counsel on AI safety, security, trust and safety policies, investigations, escalations, and incidents. The role requires a JD, U.S. bar membership, high-stakes legal experience, technical fluency, and strong judgment under uncertainty.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Advise Safeguards and trust & safety policy teams on usage policies across harm areas, including CBRNE, cyber, user wellbeing, scaled abuse and influence operations, and distillation.
- Advise on policy enforcement frameworks, including account actions, appeals, enforcement systems, and thresholds.
- Counsel on sensitive escalations and strategic responses involving governments, law enforcement, regulators, and the press.
- Advise on safety and security threat intelligence investigations, bug bounty and red-team programs, and safety and security testing arrangements.
- Support safeguards, security engineering, machine learning, and data science teams developing 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 incident-response guidance and assessing notification and reporting obligations.
- Build and maintain crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance.
- Monitor AI safety, security, and regulatory developments and translate them into practical guidance.

## Requirements
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- Experience handling fast-moving, high-stakes investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work.
- Working knowledge of trust and safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
- Technical fluency sufficient to understand system architecture, data flows, and AI model behavior.
- Strong legal writing and drafting skills.
- Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder responses to time-sensitive matters and translating legal analysis into actionable guidance.
- Strong risk assessment and decision-making judgment.

## Nice-to-haves
- Active membership in the California state bar.
- 4–8+ years of relevant legal experience.
- In-house product counsel experience at a technology company involving security or trust and safety, or law firm experience advising technology clients on regulatory investigations or enforcement.
- Experience with content moderation, platform safety, user wellbeing, or crisis management.
- Experience working with machine learning, safety and security research, infrastructure, or threat intelligence teams.
- Familiarity with AI systems, machine learning concepts, or novel technology products.
- Low-ego, hands-on working style and commitment to users affected by AI misuse.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual salary range: $265,000–$335,000 USD.
- Hybrid role requiring work from the San Francisco office at least 3 days per week.
- Visa sponsorship may be available.

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