Frontier Counsel

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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 a member of the Frontier Counsel function youll advise on data acquisition and risk mitigation and be a subject matter expert on copyright privacy and related issues pertaining to data used to develop frontier AI models. You may also support our Alignment Frontier Red-Teaming Policy and Societal Impacts teams to ensure safe responsible AI development. The ideal candidate will have experience navigating complex legal challenges at the intersection of machine learning data acquisition and content usage in a fast-moving technical environment.

Responsibilities:

• Advise various research teams on permissible data usage and partner with them on our data sourcing strategy monitoring regulatory developments related to AI training data and adapt internal policies and practices proactively
• Translate data and model development implications between research teams and Legal & Policy stakeholders
• Engage with academics industry groups and other stakeholders to develop norms and best practices around data governance for AI development
• Support Anthropics Alignment and Frontier Red-Teaming teams to advance their research on AI safety and model vulnerabilities including advising on vendor engagements external collaborations and data usage
• Counsel the Societal Impacts team to support our efforts to understand the impact of AI on society including advising on data usage and sharing and publications

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have a JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• Have at least 8 years of legal experience advising on copyright privacy data and related issues for technology companies or AI/ML products (in-house experience preferred)
• Are a creative practical problem solver with a passion and capacity for translating and applying legal requirements to technical concepts related to model development. You understand the importance of enabling innovation while developing responsibly and mitigating risks
• Have experience advising on legal issues for AI products or services and academic research and knowledge of the machine learning development lifecycle
• Have excellent written communication skills with the ability to draft clear policies whitepapers and other content. You enjoy engaging with stakeholders to evangelize best practices
• You understand how to achieve the right balance between the organizations mission and goals when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line
• You enjoy wearing many hats in a fast-growing startup environment and are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory
• You are a doer and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done. Youre a team player who doesnt hesitate to jump in to solve difficult problems
• Exceptional communication and analytical skills technical fluency and ability to navigate ambiguous and uncharted legal territory
• Growth mindset and epistemic humility with a passion for AIs potential to positively impact the world and realistic assessment of its risks and limitations. Commitment to building trustworthy ethical AI systems

Strong candidates may have:

• In-house or similar experience at a global law firm
• Experience in a tech company or other fast-paced environment

Role-specific policy:For this role we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco 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

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process