IP Counsel, Patents
IP Counsel, Patents
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$ 300000 - 375000
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About Anthropic
Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
We are seeking an experienced and strategic IP Counsel to join our growing legal team. In this role you will provide comprehensive IP guidance across the organization with particular depth in patent strategy. You will work closely with our product research and technical teams to drive Anthropics organic patent portfolio development while also advising on the full spectrum of IP matters. You will partner closely with the Head of IP and other IP legal colleagues to help design and implement an IP program that protects Anthropics innovations supports the companys growth and is aligned with the companys mission.
Responsibilities:
- Drive our organic patent development process including invention harvesting drafting oversight prosecution management and coordination with outside counsel
- Develop and implement comprehensive patent strategies in the U.S. and internationally that align with Anthropics business objectives and technology roadmap
- Provide broad IP guidance across the organization with the ability to identify and address potential IP issues across patents trademarks trade secrets and open source
- Analyze and respond to thirdparty patent demands and evaluate strategic patent acquisition and licensing opportunities
- Conduct IP due diligence for M&A transactions and strategic partnerships
- Advise on IP aspects of commercial agreements including licenses joint development agreements and technology transfers educating technical teams on best practices to protect Anthropics innovations
You may be a good fit if you have:
- A JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred) and registration with the USPTO
- 10 years of legal experience with demonstrated expertise across the IP spectrum particularly in patents
- Strong experience working directly with engineers researchers and product teams to identify and protect innovations
- Track record of developing and implementing comprehensive IP strategies in fastmoving technical environments
- Experience balancing legal protection with business practicality in a collaborative setting
Strong candidates may have:
- Advanced degree in computer science engineering or related technical field
- Deep expertise in IP areas beyond patents
- Experience in AI machine learning or related cuttingedge technologies
- Background in highgrowth technology companies or startups
Application Deadline: June 1 2025. Applications will be reviewed after the deadline and our hiring team plans to begin contacting potential candidates shortly after. We encourage all interested and qualified applicants to submit their materials before this date to ensure full consideration.
Rolespecific policy: For this role we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco office at least 3 days a week though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.
The expected salary range for this position is:
Annual Salary:
$300000 $375000 USD
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Locationbased hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
How were different
We believe that the highestimpact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few largescale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our longterm goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highestimpact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT3 CircuitBased Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Employment Type
Full Time
