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About the Role
Lila Sciences is seeking a life sciences patent lawyer to own IP strategy for their therapeutic, materials, and other scientific domains. This role involves building and prosecuting a global patent portfolio and advising on IP terms for collaborations, licensing, and financings.
Responsibilities
- Own global patent strategy for therapeutic programs, including composition-of-matter, formulation, delivery, method-of-use, and platform claims.
- Direct outside counsel on drafting and prosecution across major jurisdictions; set claim strategy rather than relay it.
- Design claim architecture that protects programs at each stage of their life cycle.
- Lead patentability, validity, and freedom-to-operate analyses; translate findings into go/no-go and design-around recommendations.
- Serve as IP lead on collaboration, option, license, and services agreements, including the IP terms that follow from them.
- Run IP due diligence for financings and partner transactions, including portfolio schedules, chain of title, and license obligations.
- Advise on inbound licenses for third-party software, data, models, and research tools, and build the clearance process that supports compliant use.
- Mentor junior legal team members and, over time, build and manage the life sciences IP function.
Requirements
- J.D. and active bar admission, with USPTO registration.
- 12+ years of substantive patent experience in the life sciences, in a law firm, in-house, or a combination.
- Technical degree in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular or cellular biology, immunology, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated ownership of global patent portfolios for biopharmaceutical products, with direct responsibility for claim strategy.
- Experience across a range of therapeutic modalities.
- Track record producing patentability, validity, and FTO assessments that supported real business decisions.
- Experience advising on IP aspects of collaborations, licensing, acquisitions, or financings, including diligence and negotiating provisions.
- Experience with option-based or milestone-based collaboration structures.
- Experience maintaining portfolio positions across related programs and partners.
- Familiarity with structure-based similarity and analog definitions as used in contracts.
- Experience with PTAB post-grant proceedings or district court and ITC litigation support.
- Exposure to AI or computational drug discovery, including related inventorship questions.
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 12+ years
Education Level
- J.D.
- Technical degree in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular or cellular biology, immunology, or a closely related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $262,000—$400,000 USD
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
- Company subsidized lunch program
About the Company
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
- We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI.
- Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
- LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy.
- Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance.
Equal Opportunity
- Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.