Profluent Bio

• Lead legal strategy and execution for complex transactions, including licensing, joint ventures, and strategic collaborations across therapeutics, diagnostics, agriculture, biocatalysis, and manufacturing • Serve as a genuine thought partner to BD and executive leadership from the earliest stages of deal structuring, not just at the contract execution phase • Collaborate with R&D teams to critically refine research plans and SOWs to ensure technical objectives are precise, actionable, and aligned with contractual terms • Draft, negotiate, and advise on a range of mid-to-complex agreements, including IP licenses, options, evaluations, MSAs, revenue sharing agreements, SRAs, and similar instruments • Develop generalizable deal principles and strategies in partnership with BD, R&D, and executive leadership, including partnering with alliance management through the contract lifecycle • Triage and communicate risk in ways that are actionable and grounded in evidence, and translate legal considerations into business strategy, not just legal analysis • Perform effectively in high-stakes, live negotiation settings, including multi-party sessions with sophisticated counterparties

• Contribute to ML research advancing the state-of-the-art in deep learning for protein sequence, structure, and function and its application to protein design • Work with a research mentor and the broader ML team to advance a summer research project for peer-reviewed publication or internal deployment • Analyze, interpret, and organize results and present progress to colleagues in regular research meetings