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Patent Engineer (Life Sciences)
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The way companies innovate is broken.</strong> The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, <strong>90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property)</strong> - yet R&D and IP teams spend <strong>half their time buried in manual work</strong>, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. <strong>We’re here to fix that.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years</strong>. 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re at an inflection point:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs</strong> like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies</strong> including Fortune 500 company <strong>L’Oréal</strong> and global law firm <strong>Vorys</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Expanding our world-class team</strong> with alumni from <strong>Palantir, Amazon, and BCG</strong> to tackle the <strong>$1T+ innovation market</strong>. We’re just getting started.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong><br />We’re looking for a patent professional with deep large-molecule life sciences expertise who can bridge product development, engineering and IP protection. You’ll work hands-on with pharmaceutical and biotech customers to design AI-powered patent solutions that understand the nuances of biologics—including antibodies, proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, vaccines and cell and gene therapies—and the conventions that govern their patent protection.</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build life sciences-specific patent products:</strong> Partner with product and engineering teams to develop AI tools tailored to large-molecule patents—from protein and antibody sequence analysis to biologics claim generation, sequence-listing support and prior-art searching across life sciences databases.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Embed with pharmaceutical and biotech customers:</strong> Work directly with in-house patent counsel and prosecution teams to design, prototype and deploy high-value proofs of concept for large-molecule patent workflows.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Shape product development with biologics expertise:</strong> Translate complex large-molecule patent challenges into product requirements, ensuring our AI understands sequence data, CDR and epitope definitions, functional claim language, sequence variants, experimental data and biologics drafting conventions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Drive customer success in large-molecule patents:</strong> Lead technica