IP Counsel, Life Sciences Patents

The role

You will manage patent strategy and filings for life sciences research. You will serve as an in-house expert on patent questions arising from AI use in scientific research.

What you will do

• Manage patent strategy and filings for life sciences research in the U.S. and internationally
• Serve as patent advisor to life science research teams
• Design and implement scalable guidance and processes for life science efforts
• Make inventorship determinations for AI-assisted research
• Advise on inventor declarations and the duty of candor
• Develop claim and filing strategies across biological, chemical, and computational inventions
• Partner with Research Legal and Communications on publication timing
• Advise on patent aspects of agreements with life science and biopharma counterparties
• Support patent diligence and freedom-to-operate analyses
• Provide strategic guidance to leadership on emerging legal developments

Required qualifications

• Hold a law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent)
• Meet local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel
• Degree or equivalent training in a life sciences or chemistry field
• Substantial hands-on experience drafting and prosecuting U.S. life sciences patent applications
• Experience directing foreign prosecution through local counsel
• Lead responsibility for a patent portfolio
• Experience managing budget and outside or foreign counsel
• Experience making inventorship determinations and resolving ownership questions in multi-party research arrangements
• Excellent communication skills
• Low-ego, high-empathy orientation and a doer attitude
• Intense curiosity about AI and science
• Commitment to responsible AI development

Nice to have

• 10+ years of patent experience at a law firm, biotech or pharmaceutical company, or both
• Advanced degree in a life sciences or chemistry field
• Experience with AI/ML companies, or with inventions at the boundary of biology and machine learning
• Working knowledge of how patents interact with regulatory exclusivity, trade secrets, and open science
• Familiarity with biosecurity, dual-use research, or export control considerations in the life sciences
• Experience leveraging AI to optimize work

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas, but not for every role and candidate

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.