# Safety & Security Counsel

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** Dublin, Ireland, London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** £165k – £205k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Trust And Safety, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Platform Regulation, Ai Systems, Machine Learning, Data Governance, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Content Moderation, Red Teaming, Bug Bounty, System Architecture, Data Flows, Crisis Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-22

> Provides first-line legal counsel on AI safety, security, trust and safety, incidents, enforcement, and regulatory matters across EMEA. The role requires legal qualification, high-stakes investigations or crisis experience, technical fluency, and preferably 8+ years of relevant practice.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with Safeguards (trust and safety) policy teams to design and iterate usage policies across harm areas, including CBRNE, cybersecurity, 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 internal and external testing arrangements.
- Support safeguards, security engineering, machine learning, and data science teams building 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, regulatory, and policy developments and translate them into practical guidance.

## Requirements
- Qualified 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.
- Working knowledge of trust and safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
- Strong legal drafting and writing skills, including policies, playbooks, escalation protocols, or 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 actionable steps for technical and executive audiences.

## Nice-to-haves
- 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, and crisis management.
- Experience working with machine learning, safety and security research, infrastructure, and threat-intelligence teams.
- Familiarity with AI systems and machine-learning concepts or novel technology products.
- Strong judgment under uncertainty.
- Hands-on, collaborative working style and commitment to users affected by AI misuse.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual salary: £165,000–£205,000 GBP.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Visa sponsorship may be available.
- Hybrid work arrangement with regular office attendance; this role expects at least 3 days per week in the London office.

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