Research Counsel

The role

You will advise on legal topics across the lifecycle of building and studying frontier AI models. This includes data acquisition, training pipelines, model evaluation, and alignment research.

What you will do

• Advise research and data teams on data sourcing, licensing, partnerships, and use
• Coordinate regulatory readiness and model launches
• Review model documentation and system cards
• Respond to regulatory inquiries
• Support the Responsible Scaling Policy regarding biological and chemical risk
• Counsel research teams on design, data collection, and publication review
• Monitor global AI, privacy, copyright, and export-control developments
• Engage with academics, regulators, industry groups, and civil society

Required qualifications

• Hold a law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent)
• Meet local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel
• Practical, creative problem-solving
• Exceptional communication and analytical skills
• Technical fluency
• Familiarity and comfort advising on the EU AI Act, U.S. legislation and AI frameworks, GDPR/CCPA, and comparable regimes globally
• Interest in the impact of AI on society
• Sound judgment
• Low-ego, collaborative approach
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role

Nice to have

• At least 8 years of legal experience advising technology companies on copyright, privacy, data, AI regulation, and related product and policy issues
• Experience engaging directly with regulators or standards bodies
• Working technical literacy
• An academic or publishing background, or experience with copyright, open-source, and data licensing
• Experience with biosecurity, dual-use research, export controls, or safety frameworks
• Experience advising on academic or industry research

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, but we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.