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Research Counsel

Anthropic· Legal
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York, NY)$265k - $335kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Legal counsel to support Anthropic’s research and product development in frontier AI, focusing on data use, licensing, regulation, and responsible research policy across global jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

  • Advise research and data teams on data sourcing, licensing, partnerships, and use, and help shape Anthropic's data acquisition and use strategy as laws and markets evolve
  • Help coordinate regulatory readiness and model launches, review model documentation and system cards, respond to regulatory inquiries, and advise on legal questions for pre-release and internal models
  • Support the Responsible Scaling Policy as applied to biological and chemical risk, including capability evaluations, tiered access for biosecurity researchers, and dual-use research questions
  • Counsel the Societal Impacts, Economic, Alignment, Interpretability, Model Welfare, and Beneficial Deployments teams on research design, data collection and sharing, external collaborations, program launches, and publication review
  • Monitor global AI, privacy, copyright, and export-control developments and translate them into practical internal guidance and policy, working closely with Product, Policy, and other legal stakeholders
  • Engage with academics, regulators, industry groups, and civil society to help develop norms and best practices for responsible AI development and data governance

Qualifications

  • Hold a law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and meet the local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel where you'll be based (California or New York preferred)
  • Practical, creative problem-solving: the ability to apply legal requirements to fast-changing, deeply technical work, with an understanding that the goal is to enable responsible research and product development in a risk-calibrated environment
  • Exceptional communication and analytical skills, technical fluency, and the ability to navigate ambiguous and uncharted legal territory
  • Familiarity and comfort advising on the EU AI Act, U.S. legislation and AI frameworks, GDPR/CCPA, and comparable regimes globally, sometimes where no AI-specific legislation exists
  • Interest in thinking deeply about the impact of AI on society and how to make humanity's transition to the AI age as beneficial as possible
  • Sound judgment about when to be flexible and when to hold a line; collaborative approach

Skills

Required:Legal advisory for technology and AIRegulatory affairs and engagementTechnical literacy in ML/data practices

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space with collaborative environment
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Policy on candidate AI usage guidance
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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