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Our unique Virtual Human™ platform identifies novel, high-impact genetic intervention points, which our TherML™ platform translates into therapeutics, whether small molecules, biologics, or oligos. With multiple programs in metabolic disease and neuroscience advancing toward the clinic, and our first CTA/IND submission slated for the second half of this year, we are at a pivotal inflection point.\nWe are seeking a pragmatic, high-output attorney to join our Legal team as Counsel or Senior Counsel, with level set by experience. You will be the daily legal partner to research, lab and technical operations, IT, procurement, finance, and HR, covering commercial and operational matters, compute and infrastructure. This is a high-volume role on a small team: you will own your matters end to end, build and enhance the templates and processes the company runs on, and have an opportunity to grow your scope as insitro grows.\nYou will also be practicing at the frontier of two fields that are both moving fast, drug discovery and artificial intelligence, often on questions that have no settled answer yet. The Legal department here is small, senior, and low-ego, with a genuine seat at the table: scientists, engineers, and the management team come to us early rather than at the end. We are building the function itself, including how AI reshapes legal work, so you will have real influence over the tooling, templates, and processes insitro uses for years. Based in South San Francisco, this position reports directly to the Associate General Counsel and offers an in-person hybrid schedule of three days per week.\nResponsibilities\nCommercial & Operational Contracting\nOwn the Contract Flow: Draft, review, and negotiate the agreements that run the company day to day, including CDAs, MSAs and SOWs, consulting agreements, and vendor, supplier, and equipment terms.\n\nBe the Front Door: Serve as a primary legal contact for the business and R&D teams, triaging incoming requests, setting expectations, driving matters to close on business timelines, and escalating issues to the AGC as needed. Provide business-oriented advice colleagues can act on without a follow-up meeting.\n\nPartner with HR: Supporting onboarding and offboarding processes, as well as contractor and similar engagements.\n\nResearch & Technical Partnership\nTranslate Science into Terms: Support lab operations and R&D teams on MTAs, research services agreements, and reagent and instrument purchases, working directly with scientists to turn experimental plans into workable contract terms.\n\nHelp Advance the Pipeline: Support CMC and Research & Development teams on CRO and CDMO agreements.\n\nContract for Compute: Negotiate the cloud, compute, and infrastructure agreements that underpin insitro's machine learning platforms.\n\nLegal Operations & Scale\nBuild for Scale: Own and improve contract templates, trainings, playbooks, approval workflows, and CLM tooling so routine work moves faster with less legal involvement.\n\nBuild and deploy AI Tools: Put AI tools to work inside the Legal function to accelerate contract review, drafting, and knowledge management.\n\nCounsel and Advise: Depending on your experience and capabilities, scope may also include data privacy and compliance support, clinical trial contracting, corporate and governance support, or mentorship of junior colleagues.\n\nAbout You\nExperience & Qualifications\nProven Tenure: 2-7+ years practicing law, with a combination of law firm and in in-house experience or exclusively in-house experience.\n\nBar Admission: J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and admission in good standing to at least one State bar, preferably California, or eligibility for California registered in-house counsel status.\n\nContracting at Volume: Demonstrated track record drafting and negotiating commercial and technology agreements at volume, with increasing independence.\n\nAI in Practice: Proven track record using AI tools in legal practice, contract review and drafting, research, and workflow automation, with sound judgment about their limits and appropriate use.\n\nCore Competencies\nDynamic Self-Starter: You prioritize and advance many matters at once under the resource and time constraints of a small, fast-paced environment.\n\nMomentum Builder: You like variety, move multiple matters forward without waiting to be asked, and know what deserves attention first.\n\nSharp Business Judgment: You distill complex legal topics into clear, actionable guidance.\n\nTrusted Partner: You bring discretion, professionalism, and attention to detail, plus a collaborative style that builds trust across the company and with third parties.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nLife Sciences Context: Experience in life sciences or biotech, and comfort working directly with scientists and engineers.\n\nTechnical Skills: Comfort using, or eagerness to learn, AI tools and workflows in legal practice, including contract review and drafting, research, and workflow automation.\n\nTechnical Contracting Depth: Familiarity with data use and acquisition agreements, AI/ML legal issues, cloud and compute contracting, and open source licensing.\n\nEmployment & Legal Tech: Prior exposure to employment law matters and to immigration in coordination with outside counsel, and experience selecting or administering CLM or legal workflow tools.\n\nCompensation & Benefits at insitro\nOur target starting salary for successful US-based applicants for this role is $204,000 - $240,000. To determine starting pay, we consider multiple job-related factors including a candidate's skills, education and experience, market demand, business needs, and internal parity. We may also adjust this range in the future based on market data.\nThis role is eligible for participation in our Annual Performance Bonus Plan (based on company targets by role level and annual company performance) and our Equity Incentive Plan, subject to the terms of those plans and associated policies.\nIn addition, insitro also provides our employees:\n401(k) plan with employer matching for contributions\n\nExcellent medical, dental, and vision coverage as well as mental health and well-being support\n\nOpen, flexible vacation policy\n\nPaid parental leave of at least 16 weeks to support parents who give birth, and 10 weeks for a new parent (inclusive of birth, adoption, fostering, etc)\n\nQuarterly budget for books and online courses for self-development\n\nNew hire stipend for home office setup\n\nMonthly cell phone & internet stipend\n\nAccess to free onsite baristas and daily lunch for employees who are either onsite or hybrid\n\nAccess to a free commuter bus network that provides transport to and from our South San Francisco HQ from locations all around the Bay Area\n\ninsitro is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.\nWe believe diversity, equity, and inclusion need to be at the foundation of our culture. We work hard to bring together diverse teams-grounded in a wide range of expertise and life experiences-and work even harder to ensure those teams thrive in inclusive, growth-oriented environments supported by equitable company and team practices. All candidates can expect equitable treatment, respect, and fairness throughout the interview process.\nPlease be aware of recruitment scams: we never request payments, all recruitment communications are from @insitro.com, and if in doubt, contact us at .\nAbout insitro\ninsitro is a drug discovery and development company using machine learning (ML) and data at scale to decode biology for transformative medicines. At the core of insitro’s approach is the convergence of in-house generated multi-modal cellular data and high-content phenotypic human cohort data. We rely on these data to develop ML-driven, predictive disease models that uncover underlying biologic state and elucidate critical drivers of disease. These powerful models rely on extensive biological and computational infrastructure and allow insitro to advance novel targets and patient biomarkers, design therapeutics and inform clinical strategy. insitro is advancing a wholly owned and partnered pipeline of insights and therapeutics in neuroscience and metabolism. Since launching in 2018, insitro has raised over $700 million from top tech, biotech and crossover investors, and from collaborations with pharmaceutical partners. 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