Drug development shouldn’t be guesswork, not when patients are waiting. Pathos is building a next-generation biotech with AI at the core. Not as a feature, but as the operating system for how medicines get developed. Backed by NEA.
About the role
This role is one of the most direct applications of legal expertise to cancer research. You will be the primary legal advisor to the engineering, product, and clinical and operations teams building four of the company’s core platforms: the Oncology Foundation Model, AI Platform Foundry, Scout (asset identification), and Sprint (clinical trial execution).
What they're looking for
- Advise on all things regulatory. Drug development, privacy, corporate compliance, AI guidelines, etc
- Own all things regulatory + compliance that don’t already have a home outside Legal. For instance, Finance will own tax compliance, but you’ll be owning the privacy program
- Uplevel and own the company’s compliance program
- Maintain organized digital spreadsheets of everything
- Learn and use AI to force multiply yourself across legal workstreams
- Advise on protocol development, site monitoring, data integrity, biomarker qualification, companion diagnostic considerations, the use of real-world data, etc
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About the role
This role is one of the most direct applications of legal expertise to cancer research. You will be the primary legal advisor to the engineering, product, and clinical and operations teams building four of the company’s core platforms: the Oncology Foundation Model, AI Platform Foundry, Scout (asset identification), and Sprint (clinical trial execution).
You will arrive with deep expertise in FDA drug development law and a genuinely meaningful ability to engage with how software systems are built and how data moves through them. You will learn the company’s technical stack well enough to represent it accurately in conversations with regulators, partners, and investors — not to operate it, but to articulate it with precision. You have technical aptitude, and a track record of learning new technology in a real way.
Your default answer is not “no,” it’s “here’s what it will take to do this right.” You understand the team’s objectives, consolidate the requirements, and advise on how to structure the work in a risk-reduced yet still innovative way - with advocacy in your toolset if needed. This is a build role - there is no infrastructure to inherit, meaning you will...
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