Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA

United States Digital Space LLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an experienced Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA, to advise on policy design, enforcement, and regulatory matters for responsible AI. The role covers safeguarding, incident response, and collaboration with policy and engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.

You will counsel on complex escalations, threat intelligence, and cross-functional risk assessments, with an emphasis on privacy and data governance in AI systems.

Qualifications

• Qualification to practice law in Ireland or another relevant jurisdiction.
• Experience drafting written guidance, policy language, and risk assessments for business and technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation.
• Experience with investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work.
• Technical fluency to understand AI systems, architecture, data flows, and model behavior.

Responsibilities

• Advise on usage policies and enforcement frameworks for safeguards and security.
• Counsel on sensitive escalations, crisis response, and coordination with governments, regulators, and press.
• Develop detection mechanisms, data governance, and privacy-related considerations with engineering teams.
• Build crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance.
• Stay updated on AI safety and security regulations across jurisdictions and translate into practical guidance.

Skills

Legal drafting

Advisory experience

Risk assessment

Regulatory matters

Crisis management

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical fluency

Policy design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As Safety & Security Counsel, EMEA, you will serve as the first-line legal advisor counseling on the full arc of keeping Claude and the company safe and secure: usage policy design and enforcement frameworks, safeguards R&D, misuse detection and response, sensitive escalations, threat intelligence, security incident response, product-related safety and security matters, and the company's safety and security-related regulatory and policy engagement. The issues are increasingly interdisciplinary and novel, and you will frequently be the one ideating and building a legally-relevant framework rather than simply applying one.

Depending on interest and experience, you will own and shape an ever-growing portfolio of issue areas across Safeguards and Security. You will also contribute to the team's capacity building efforts, including by leveraging Claude. You will work collaboratively with other legal functions on cross-functional initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced attorney who wants to do high-stakes, first-of-its-kind work at the center of responsible AI development and deployment, and to grow as a strategic product counsel and trusted crisis counselor in a fast-moving environment.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Safeguards (trust & safety) policy teams on the design and iteration of usage policies across harm areas (e.g., CBRNE, cyber, user wellbeing, scaled abuse and influence operations, and distillation), including how policies translate into detection and enforcement.

• Advise on policy enforcement frameworks such as account actions, appeals, enforcement systems and thresholds.

• Counsel on sensitive escalations and strategic response, including matters 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 safety and security testing arrangements.

• Support safeguards and security engineering, ML, and data science teams on building new tooling and detection mechanisms, including as it relates to data governance and privacy related considerations.

• Serve as a first-line legal contact for safety and security incidents, providing real-time guidance during incident response and assessing notification and reporting obligations under applicable legal frameworks and contractual commitments.

• Build and maintain crisis management playbooks, escalation protocols, and self-serve legal guidance to enable legal resource scaling.

• Stay abreast of key policy and regulatory developments in AI safety and security, and policy-specific domains across relevant jurisdictions, and translate them into practical guidance for our evolving product suite.

Minimum qualifications

• Qualification to practice law in Ireland, or another relevant jurisdiction

• Legal drafting and advisory experience producing written guidance, policy language, and risk assessments for business and technical stakeholders

• Working knowledge of trust & safety, cybersecurity, privacy, or platform regulation

• Experience with fast-moving, high-stakes matters such as investigations, regulatory matters, crisis management, or enforcement work

• 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 clear, actionable steps for technical and executive audiences

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant legal experience

• In-house (product counsel) experience at a technology company working on security and/or trust & safety issues, or law firm experience advising tech clients on regulatory investigations or enforcement matters

• Experience with content moderation, platform safety (including user wellbeing issues), and crisis management

• Facility working with very technical teams, including machine learning, safety and security research, infrastructure, and threat intelligence

• Familiarity with AI systems, machine learning concepts, or experience advising on novel technology products

• Strong judgment about risk assessment and decision-making under uncertainty

• A low-ego, hands-on working style and a commitment to doing right by users and the people affected by misuse of AI systems

Role-specific policy:For this role, we expect all staff to be able to work from our Dublin office at least 3 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

€210.000—€280.000 EUR

LogisticsMinimum education:Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experienceRequired field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experienceMinimum years of experience:Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the positionLocation-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.Your safety matters to us.