Senior Patent Counsel/Agent, Discovery & Computational Sciences IP Team
Genentech · South San Francisco, CA · Business Strategy & Delivery
About this role
Genentech is hiring a senior-level Legal Counsel based in South San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Agile, Machine Learning, AI Agents. Compensation is listed at $215,400–$400,000 per year.
- Role
- Legal Counsel
- Function
- legal
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- South San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Business Strategy & Delivery
- Posted
- Mar 4, 2026
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Job description
from Genentech careersThe Position
Genentech’s Intellectual Property team is seeking a Senior Patent Counsel/Agent with biotechnology and computational expertise. As a partner and business strategist, this individual will push the boundaries of what is possible in a highly competitive industry. This position reports to the Discovery & Computational Sciences IP Lead in Genentech’s Legal IP team. Come join our passion for creating and leveraging game-changing IP strategies that enable Genentech to “do now what patients need next!”
The Opportunity
Key responsibilities of this individual contributor role includes the following:
Managing Docket (Patent Preparation and Prosecution)
Driving strategic IP procurement and management of global intellectual property rights for innovations at the intersection of technology and biology, namely discovery platform technologies and computational innovations. Responsibilities include drafting and prosecuting patent portfolios, licensing transactions, due diligence assessments, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity analyses, and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies. Ideally the candidate will be able to flexibly handle both wet lab and in-silico biological research technologies.
Managing and prosecuting active global dockets, including handling U.S. and foreign patent applications as well as post-grant proceedings (e.g., reexamination, reissue, post-grant review), including foreign oppositions and appeals, as they may arise.
Rendering due diligence assessments, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity analyses, and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies for individual program molecules, technologies, tools, and the like.
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