Trust, Safety and Integrity Counsel

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use customize and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

We are seeking an AI Trust Safety and Integrity counsel to lead the legal support for all AI safety risks and regulations applicable to the development of frontier AI. You will work at the frontier of AI law translating complex global safety and integrity regimes and regulations into actionable product roadmaps. You will be a strategic partner to cross-functional teams across a hyper-scaling AI lab ensuring that our frontier open foundation models are built with trust safety and integrity at the forefront.

You will advise on US and international AI trust safety and integrity regulatory regimes and the practical application of those regimes to frontier AI. You will work closely with our product research engineering and safety teams as well as other business operations and compliance units to implement measures that ensure our models are responsibly developed.

This is a high-impact build-stage role. You will not simply answer one-off legal questions; you will help design the policies review processes escalation pathways and business-facing guidance that allow Reflection to move quickly while maintaining a mature and defensible compliance posture.

• Act as Reflections central expert and primary legal contact for all trust safety and integrity related legal issues. Advise on existing and developing US and international AI safety requirements.

• Design and implement content safety standards for Reflections business including model development and open-weight releases. Develop policies alongside the trust and safety product teams to ensure Reflections models meet safety standards and regulations.

• Partner with cross functional teams to implement safety controls that allow for responsible model releases and ensure Reflection addresses current and future safety and content regulations and laws.

• Advise on safety and integrity considerations in commercial and strategic transactions including partnerships with customers data and model collaborations and research partnerships.

• Address legal risks associated with potential AI harms and provide guidance on key legal frameworks including US federal and state laws such as CFAA FTC Act state non-discrimination and deepfake laws as well as international regulations such as Digital Services Act (UK) Online Safety Act (UK) and EU AI Act.

• Monitor legal and regulatory developments from Congress the White House the EU UK and other relevant authorities and translate those developments into practical guidance for leadership and operators.

• Help establish a risk-based compliance posture for AI-specific trust and safety questions involving model weights derivative models training data inference access compute clusters technical know-how research collaboration evaluations and cross-border access.

• J.D. and active bar membership (or in-house registration) in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Approximately 10 years of experience advising on U.S. and International content safety legal regulatory and litigation matters including advising to address minimise and avoid regulatory risks

• Experience advising technology companies on content safety issues especially in sectors such as artificial intelligence cloud computing semiconductors advanced computing cybersecurity infrastructure data centers or other strategically sensitive technologies.

• Deep familiarity with key safety and content regulatory frameworks across all potential types of harms.

• Strong ability to exercise independent judgment and take proactive steps in areas where the law is evolving agency guidance is incomplete or the business context does not fit neatly into legacy regulatory categories.

• Excellent cross-functional communication skills including the ability to explain complex legal requirements to engineers researchers infrastructure teams commercial teams executives and non-lawyer operators.

• Ideally prior experience at a high-growth technology company AI lab cloud provider or other content-safety-sensitive technology business. Bonus points for experience with open source access technology.

We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company and help define the future of open foundational models.

We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.

• Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflections success gets to share in the upside through stock options.

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical dental vision and life with an annual wellness allowance.

• Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.

• Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents including adoptive and surrogate journeys.

• Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

• Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.

• Team building: We have regular off-sites happy hours and team celebrations.

Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Companys ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws which may require the Company to seek government authorization.