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Counsel / Senior Counsel

South San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-08-19 → 2026-09-26

Core

In-house attorney serving as daily legal partner to research, lab, technical operations, IT, procurement, finance, and HR, covering commercial, operational, and compute/infrastructure matters for a physical AI drug discovery company.

Role type

Senior IC in-house counsel (life sciences/AI)

Builds

Commercial and operational contracts, legal processes, and AI tools for the legal function

Domain

Life sciences / Biotech / Artificial Intelligence / Drug Discovery

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Contract drafting and negotiation at volume, AI tool usage in legal practice, business judgment, self-starter mindset, technical contracting (cloud/compute), legal operations

Preferred skills

Life sciences/biotech context, technical contracting depth (AI/ML, open source), employment law, legal tech administration

Technologies

AI tools for contract review/drafting, CLM tools, cloud compute platforms

Responsibilities

Draft and negotiate commercial, technology, and vendor agreements; serve as primary legal contact for business and R&D teams; support lab operations and CRO/CDMO agreements; build and improve contract templates, playbooks, and approval workflows; deploy AI tools to accelerate legal work; provide actionable business advice

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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