Senior Counsel, IP

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $182.4k - $342k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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SandboxAQ

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Pharmaceuticals

SandboxAQ is a company developing quantitative AI and quantum-inspired technologies to solve real-world problems across drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and navigation. They build large quantitative models (LQMs) grounded in physics and chemistry to predict molecular properties, accelerate therapeutic design, and simulate complex chemical and catalytic processes, while also applying their expertise in AI and post-quantum cryptography to enhance digital security and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

📋 Description

• Own the patent portfolio end to end, including invention harvesting, filing strategy, prosecution management, and lifecycle decisions on continuations, abandonments, and annuities • Partner with scientists and engineers to identify patentable work early • Run invention disclosure and review and create an efficient end-to-end cycle with inventors • Direct and hold accountable outside patent firms and foreign associates on quality, cost, and timeliness • Run freedom-to-operate and clearance analyses to inform product strategy and launches • Serve as the IP voice in commercial, collaboration, and corporate transactions • Build and maintain the broader IP program, including trade secrets and trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement • Work cross-functionally to craft legal strategies that fuel growth while mitigating risk • Help build a forward-thinking, business-savvy, dynamic legal team as an early legal hire

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degree, with admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction • 7+ years of substantive intellectual property law experience, with significant depth and expertise in patent law • Strong technical fluency and ability to engage with PhD-level physicists, chemists, machine learning researchers, and other technical experts • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments where smart, rapid decision-making is essential • Ability to build relationships across diverse teams and translate complex legal concepts into actionable business strategies • A combination of in-house and Big Law experience is strongly preferred • USPTO registration / patent bar admission is preferred • Experience with AI/ML, life sciences, or computational chemistry subject matter, including Section 101 eligibility strategy for software and algorithmic inventions • Experience or interest in building an IP program from an early stage • Experience with government-funded contracts, trade secret program design, litigation or contested-proceeding exposure (IPR, PGR, oppositions), and use of or interest in AI tooling to accelerate legal work are valued

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary • Performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable) • Equity participation • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions • Retirement savings with company matching • Paid parental leave • Inclusive family-building benefits • Fully remote work • Flexible paid time off • Company-wide seasonal breaks • Support for flexible work arrangements • On-the-job development • Cross-functional collaboration • Access to internal learning and development programs