Commercial Counsel

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.

As a Commercial Counsel at Anthropic, you'll join our dynamic legal team supporting cutting-edge AI initiatives at the forefront of technological innovation. You'll collaborate with diverse teams across the organization, handling a wide variety of agreements including go-to-market contracts, research and product partnerships, procurement deals, and compute infrastructure agreements. This is an exceptional opportunity to tackle novel legal challenges while contributing directly to responsible AI development.

• Structure, negotiate, and close a wide range of commercial agreements spanning GTM, research collaborations, policy partnerships, procurement, and compute infrastructure
• Partner collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on commercial terms and initiatives
• Develop scalable contract templates, playbooks, and processes to support our fast-growing organization
• Identify and manage legal risks while maintaining momentum in our rapidly evolving AI landscape
• Stay current on legal developments affecting AI technologies and provide timely guidance to stakeholders

• A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred)
• 3-7 years of relevant legal experience
• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills   
• Strong ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and legal frameworks
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex legal concepts for non-lawyer audiences
• A low-ego, high-empathy orientation to internal colleagues and external partners
• Intense curiosity about AI technology and commitment to responsible AI development
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and ambiguity
• A "doer" attitude willing to roll up your sleeves and pitch in where needed

• Experience leveraging AI to optimize their work or studies

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's 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 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.

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.

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.