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 AI has the power to dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions. We're hiring Anthropic’s first dedicated Life Sciences Counsel to work side-by-side with our researchers as they work to advance biomedical progress. You’ll serve as their trusted counsel on a wide range of efforts - from fast paced life sciences transactions with top research organizations to navigating the complexities of operating at frontier pace in a regulated ecosystem. This role carries unusual scope for a single lawyer: you will be the embedded legal partner to the team, while collaborating deeply across the broader legal department to pull in the wide range of subject matter expertise this strategic initiative will require for success. Key responsibilities Serve as a key strategic advisor to our life science research teams on complex research, development, and commercial matters globally Drive high deal volume with life science and biopharma counterparties across a range of sophisticated agreement types Identify, analyze, and proactively manage life science regulatory risks in close coordination with the broader Legal department Design and implement scalable guidance and processes to support our fast-growing life science efforts Anticipate emerging legal developments affecting AI technologies in the life science and biopharma space and provide strategic guidance to leadership Minimum qualifications JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California or New York preferred) Real fluency in how the life sciences industry works: how drugs get developed, ho