Research Counsel

As a member of the Research Legal team at Anthropic, you'll advise on legal topics across the full lifecycle of building and studying frontier AI models. This includes data acquisition and use, training pipelines, model evaluation and launch, and alignment, interpretability, model welfare, societal impacts, and beneficial deployments research. You'll be a subject matter expert on copyright, privacy, data use, and AI regulation.

Key responsibilities:

• Advise research and data teams on data sourcing, licensing, partnerships, and use
• Help coordinate regulatory readiness and model launches
• Support the Responsible Scaling Policy as applied to biological and chemical risk
• Counsel 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
• Engage with academics, regulators, industry groups, and civil society to help develop norms and best practices for responsible AI development and data governance

Minimum qualifications:

• A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• Practical, creative problem-solving
• Exceptional communication and analytical skills, technical fluency
• Interest in thinking deeply about the impact of AI on society
• Sound judgment about when to be flexible and when to hold a line

Preferred qualifications:

• At least 8 years of legal experience advising technology companies on copyright, privacy, data, AI regulation
• 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

The annual compensation range for this role is $265,000-$335,000 USD.