AI Research Legal Counsel — Data & Privacy

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 265,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI research company, is seeking a Research Legal professional to guide data use, licensing, and regulatory strategy across frontier AI models. You will work with researchers to resolve complex copyright, privacy, and AI regulation questions and help shape responsible deployment policies in a fast-moving environment.

You will partner with researchers and policy teams to translate evolving laws into practical guidance, while supporting governance, risk, and publication

Qualifications

• JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California or New York preferred).
• Ability to apply legal requirements to fast-changing, deeply technical work 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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, 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.

Skills

Exceptional communication

Analytical skills

Practical problem-solving

Regulatory knowledge

Risk-calibrated judgment

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) with bar admission in at least one US state (NY/CA preferred)

Job description

Anthropic, a safety-focused AI research company, is seeking a Research Legal professional to guide data use, licensing, and regulatory strategy across frontier AI models. You will work with researchers to resolve complex copyright, privacy, and AI regulation questions and help shape responsible deployment policies in a fast-moving environment.

You will partner with researchers and policy teams to translate evolving laws into practical guidance, while supporting governance, risk, and publication