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 will join our dynamic legal team supporting cutting-edge AI initiatives at the forefront of technological innovation. You will 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.

Responsibilities:

• Structure, negotiate, and close a potentially wide range of commercial agreements spanning GTM, research collaborations, policy and product 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

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 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

Strong candidates may have:

• Experience leveraging AI to optimize their work or studies

Application deadline: 4pm PT on September 15, 2025. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline, and our hiring team plans to begin contacting potential candidates shortly after. We encourage all interested and qualified applicants to submit their materials before this date to ensure full consideration.

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.

The expected salary range for this position is:

$200,000 - $265,000 USD

Logistics

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 sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to assist with the visa process, 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. We value diverse perspectives and strive to include a range of experiences on our team.

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 a few large-scale research efforts and value impact—advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI—over addressing smaller puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science and prioritize strong communication skills, collaboration, and high-impact work.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to review our recent work, 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 welcoming office space for collaboration.

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Interested in building your career at Anthropic? We invite you to apply and submit your materials before the deadline to ensure full consideration.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. We also collect voluntary self-identification information for government reporting purposes. Providing this information is voluntary and will not affect hiring decisions. This information is confidential and stored separately from the hiring process.