Policy Counsel, EMEA

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.

Anthropic is seeking a Policy Counsel to support our public policy and legal initiatives at the intersection of AI technology and regulation. As a member of our legal team youll work cross-functionally to navigate emerging policy challenges and help build and advocate for frameworks that promote responsible AI development. This is an exceptional opportunity to tackle novel legal and policy questions while contributing directly to the future of AI governance.

• Support the development of AI governance frameworks that align with evolving regulations industry best practices and global standards Monitor and analyze emerging legislative and regulatory developments related to AI

• Provide legal analysis and advice to the External Affairs team and other Public Policy stakeholders

• Partner with Public Policy and technical teams in developing practical policy guidance that is informed by a deep understanding of our products

• Assist in drafting policy positions and proposals and advocacy materials

• Law degree and qualification to practice law in a relevant Dublin jurisdiction

• Experience with policy regulatory or government affairs work whether in government at a technology company a law firm or a policy organization

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to make complex legal and technical concepts accessible to non-legal audiences

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work through ambiguous policy questions

• 6 years of relevant legal experience

• Experience working on complex technology policy issues across AI/ML policy data privacy copyright or technology regulation

• Familiarity with Dublin legislative and regulatory processes including experience with EU or national-level advocacy

• Experience drafting policy positions comment letters or regulatory submissions

• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand AI concepts and translate them into policy contexts

• Interest in government affairs matters and a commitment to responsible AI development

• A collaborative humble approach and the ability to work effectively across diverse teams

• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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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.

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 policy for using AI in our application process.