Regulatory Investigations Counsel

San Francisco, CA | Washington, DC

About Anthropic

Anthropic’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 a member of our Litigation and Regulatory team, you will take primary responsibility for managing government and regulatory investigations, inquiries, and information requests directed at Anthropic, from initial contact through resolution. These matters may come from various sources, such as federal agencies, state attorneys general, and international regulatory bodies, and could range from informal inquiries to formal civil investigative demands, subpoenas, and multi-agency investigations. You will lead our response with minimal supervision, manage outside counsel, and work cross-functionally to gather information efficiently and with minimal disruption to the business.

You may also advise on the regulatory dimensions of business decisions before they become inquiries, helping product, commercial, and policy colleagues understand how regulators are likely to view a launch, partnership, or practice. We may also ask you to flex into managing cases on our civil litigation docket. The right candidate brings the instincts of a litigator, the judgment of a counselor, and an interest in building the systems that let a small team handle a growing docket well.

Key responsibilities

• Manage regulatory investigations and inquiries from initial contact through resolution, including scoping and negotiating requests with agency staff, coordinating document collection and production, preparing witnesses, and drafting written responses and submissions

• Manage Congressional investigations or inquiries

• Manage and collaborate with outside counsel across all stages of an investigation, keeping matters efficient and aligned with company priorities

• Work cross-functionally with technical, product, policy, and business teams to collect information efficiently, evaluate risk, and develop resolution strategies

• Represent Anthropic in interactions with regulators and enforcement staff, and support public policy colleagues in broader regulator engagement

• Develop internal processes, playbooks, and tools that make regulatory response scalable and consistent across matters, including where inquiries may overlap with each other or litigation

• Track enforcement trends and regulatory developments and share them with stakeholders in a form they can act on

• Flex to support litigation and other matters as the team's needs evolve

Minimum qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar

• Substantial experience managing government or regulatory investigations, including responding to civil investigative demands, subpoenas, or comparable formal requests

• Experience working with technology companies and/or technical clients

• Strong communication, legal writing and analytical skills, with the ability to distill complex facts and law into clear advice for legal and non-legal audiences

• Experience managing outside counsel and coordinating large information requests across an organization

• Sound judgment on risk tradeoffs, and the ability to move work forward with incomplete information

• Integrity, curiosity, and a willingness to take on the hands-on work that a growing team requires

• Composure under time pressure and public scrutiny

Preferred qualifications

• At least 8-12 years of practicing law with a combination of experience at a global-focused law firm and in-house

• Experience with enforcement matters before federal agencies, state attorneys general, or international regulatory bodies

• Prior experience at a regulatory or enforcement agency

• Working knowledge of competition and antitrust law or cybersecurity/privacy law

• Civil litigation experience, particularly for technology companies working with novel products

• Familiarity with AI-specific regulatory frameworks

• Experience building sustainable regulatory-response processes at a growth-stage company

• A commitment to the development of AI that is both innovative and trustworthy, including an understanding of the risks and limitations that must be addressed alongside the benefits

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

Minimum education: Bachelor’s 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 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. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're 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. We're 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.