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The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.\nAnkar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software-and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI.\nWe’re at an inflection point:\nWe’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.\n\nWe’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys\n\nExpanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started.\n\nWhat you’ll be doing\nWe’re looking for a patent professional with deep large-molecule life sciences expertise who can bridge product development, engineering and IP protection. 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You can move seamlessly between high-level patent strategy and detailed biologics claim construction.\n\nExtreme ownership: You anticipate problems, take responsibility for outcomes and consistently deliver. This is how you grow-and how we win.\n\n[Bonus points]: Experience at a patent law firm representing pharmaceutical or biotech clients; in-house patent counsel experience at a pharmaceutical or biotech company; expertise in emerging modalities such as antibody-drug conjugates, bispecific antibodies, RNA therapeutics or cell and gene therapies; or an advanced life sciences degree combined with patent training.\n\nThis role is not for you if...\nYou need a highly structured environment, a predefined playbook, regular working hours, or a schedule that never requires travel. 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