
Ankar · London
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value i...
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today,
90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in
manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting
are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.
Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re
building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into
clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI.
Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.
Vorys
getting started.
What you’ll be doing
We’re looking for a hands-on patent professional who can bridge product, engineering, and intellectual property — embedding with
customers and internal teams to design, prototype, and deploy proofs of concept and new products. You’ll apply your patent
expertise to help shape how we capture and protect innovation as we build.
new products
What we are looking for
the patent lifecycle
we win.
Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best
R&D teams create and protect ideas.
ideas come from clarity and rigour.
the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last.
the bar. Every challenge sharpens us.
This role is not for you if...
travel. We operate with high autonomy and ownership, expect our team to go above and beyond, be obsessed with our mission and
thrive in ambiguity rather than wait for direction.
and new information.
creating exceptional products.
right answer than defending a particular one.
What we put behind our people
Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly.
matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from.
I quit medicine because I kept watching patients die needlessly, for avoidable reasons. In almost every case, the science and the clinicians were fine. It was the system around them that failed: the way information moved, the way decisions got routed, and the way fragmented teams and fragmented data turned solvable problems into tragedy. Our mission is human wellbeing, and we're focusing on the breakthrough technology of personalised medicine. Since the beginning, our proprietary insight has always been that the company to create a true active learning data engine with a loss function against human wellbeing would be the one to crack it, becoming one of the most impactful companies in the world as a result. We're now in 1,100+ clinics, across 4 product lines, serve >20% of the UK population, and have solved >5.7 million patient cases in the past 12 months alone, saving an estimated 8,600 lives. We are cash flow positive, growing fast, and have a tight crew of ~35 people. Multiple trillion-dollar companies will be built in healthcare over the next two decades, and we intend to be one of them. We have a knights of the round table culture with a flat hierarchy, where we empower builders to have outsized impact on millions of lives, and where we collaboratively converge on the optimal action without dogma or ego. We're all here to serve a greater mission than ourselves. The closest analogy for our culture is probably Firefly (the TV series): a small crew on a ship at the frontier, each person exceptional in a specific way, deeply loyal to each other and the mission, resourceful under constraints, and having a genuinely good time doing something that matters. We're carefully curated, lean, and wholeheartedly in. If you want your skills to be at the highest possible stakes, you belong at Anima. Your work here will save lives. - Shun Do you want to build a product that will save lives? Long before the "vertical AI" craze, we were obsessed with active reinforcement learning—a niche field in 2021 that the world, pre-ChatGPT, largely ignored. Our trajectory has been unwavering since our YC application: achieving the "holy grail" of personalized medicine and deep phenotyping. This is powered by our proprietary active learning architecture - a system we codified in a 2021 patent that anticipated the Sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) and active learning loops now foundational to modern LLMs. While others are just arriving at the party, we’ve spent years executing a plan to build what is now one of the world’s largest, highest-quality labeled datasets. As a Clinical Engineer, you'll use your medical training to solve novel technical problems that will save lives. We’re looking for someone who * Has a medical degree and can code. * Competent in TS and JS, with a track record of learning new languages. * Has experience with frameworks/libraries like Angular, Node and React. * Has experience with AWS (e.g. APIG, SQS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cognito, Amplify, CloudFormation) and/or hungry to learn. * Is obsessive about UX and optimises for this over arbitrary technical goals. * Is driven, impatient to grow and wants their shot to change the world. What to expect in the role * You’ll work with an incredibly smart team. Like Michael who built a working CPU from logic dates at age 16 and co-founded YC-backed Embark Trucks, the first self-driving vehicle on Canadian roads. Or Souradip, who built an acoustic fall detector using on-device deep learning; he’s also an MB/PhD from Cambridge who’s published in top medical journals. * You’ll own your projects end to end and ship fast. Like Alex who built ‘Slack for medical teams’ supporting 1000s of channels per organisation and a real time single source of truth for patient data in 4 weeks. Or Dennis who built and shipped a lightning fast cloud document library for clinics in a few days with <100ms traversals through preloading. * You’ll work on a well-established stack that’s already highly scalable, cost effective, secure and performant with minimal to zero ops. * You’ll learn new technologies; whatever is needed to solve the problem. We are tech agonistic, and collectively choose the best tools for the job. We’re constantly looking to maximise our productivity and minimise what we call “discounted dev time cost” for shipping features. Our current stack We have 2 separate fully functional web apps in prod: one for clinical users and one for patients. Angular, React and Electron, Mixpanel/Posthog for analytics, a fully serverless backend in AWS (Cognito, Appsync GraphQL, Lambda, DynamoDB). We have good functional & unit test coverage and CI/CD.
The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that. Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI. We’re at an inflection point: * We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI. * We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys * Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started. What you’ll be doing As one of our Founding AEs, you’ll work closely with our Head of Sales and co-founders to drive new business and expand our customer base. You’ll manage the full sales cycle with enterprise and mid-market accounts, helping the world’s most innovative organizations adopt our AI platform to accelerate their IP and R&D work. You will: * Drive the end-to-end sales process: prospecting, discovery, demos, solution positioning, negotiation, and closing ($50k–100k+ ACV). * Execute our GTM strategy by bringing our messaging, ICPs, and sales playbook to life in conversations with prospects. * Consistently build and manage a strong pipeline via outbound, inbound, and industry events * Deliver compelling presentations, proposals, and reports tailored to customer needs. * Partner with the Head of Sales to refine our sales processes, share market insights, and contribute to a culture of learning and improvement. * Collaborate with marketing, product, and engineering to provide feedback and influence our roadmap and go-to-market initiatives. * Build trusted, long-term relationships with prospects and customers. This role is for an energetic, curious, scrappy and hungry operator - with exceptional communication and problem-solving skills - who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. We see this role as a continuous escalator towards taking more responsibility at Ankar. What we are looking for * 5+ years experience in B2B SaaS go-to-market and sales (experience with enterprise or mid-market deals preferred) * A track record of consistently exceeding revenue targets. * Ability run the full sales cycle - from prospecting and discovery to demos, negotiations, and closing. * Resilience and resourcefulness - you’re proactive in generating pipeline, creative in finding new ways to reach customers, and persistent in moving deals forward. * Agency - you take pride in your work, approach problems critically, and consistently look for ways to improve. * [Bonus points] Have experience working in early-stage startups, commercialising AI or IP-related products, or selling to law firms, patent attorneys or in-house IP professionals. * [Bonus points] A strong existing network in enterprise innovation, R&D, or IP teams. Culture at Ankar: Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas. * Contrarian - we think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour. * Creative - we build with taste: We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last. * Competitiveness - we play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us. This role is not for you if... * You need a highly structured environment, a predefined playbook, regular working hours, or a schedule that never requires travel. We operate with high autonomy and ownership, expect our team to go above and beyond, be obsessed with our mission and thrive in ambiguity rather than wait for direction. * You prefer long planning cycles and certainty before acting. We move quickly, ship often, and adapt based on customer feedback and new information. * You want to manage the work rather than do the work. We're builders first, and everyone is expected to contribute directly to creating exceptional products. * You take it personally when ideas are challenged, priorities shift, or work gets redirected. We care more about finding the right answer than defending a particular one. What we put behind our people Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly. * Health Insurance : Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents. * Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings. * Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office. * Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax-free. * Way we work: We combine deep, in-person collaboration (3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from. * Visa sponsorship: Yes
OVERVIEW The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that. Ankar is building the R&D tools for the AI era and defining what applied research will look like in the next 20 years. We’re building infrastructure and product experiences our customers rely on every day. You’ll translate messy, ambiguous problems into clean, dependable software—and you’ll do it at the cutting-edge of AI. We’re at an inflection point: * We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI. * We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys * Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started. What you’ll do: * Build world-class product. Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable systems and user-facing product experiences that customers depend on. * Ship fast and iterate constantly. Deliver quickly, learn from real feedback, and refine the product week by week with direct access to customers. * Own end-to-end execution. Take full ownership of projects across frontend, backend, and deployment—from design to implementation to monitoring and maintenance. * Partner deeply with teammates and customers. Collaborate closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams and customers themselves to ensure what we build is useful, usable, and impactful. Culture at Ankar: Culture at Ankar is how we think, build, and operate. We’re building a generational company that redefines how the world’s best R&D teams create and protect ideas. * Contrarian - we think from first principles: We think deeply, question assumptions, and build from first principles. The best ideas come from clarity and rigour. * Creative - we build with taste: We’re building the R&D tools for the AI era and shaping what applied research looks like over the next 20 years. We care about precision, quality, and systems that last. * Competitive - we play to win: We move with urgency and set a very high bar for ourselves and each other. Every win raises the bar. Every challenge sharpens us. This role is not for you if... * You need a highly structured environment, a predefined playbook, regular working hours, or a schedule that never requires travel. We operate with high autonomy and ownership, expect our team to go above and beyond, be obsessed with our mission and thrive in ambiguity rather than wait for direction. * You prefer long planning cycles and certainty before acting. We move quickly, ship often, and adapt based on customer feedback and new information. * You want to manage the work rather than do the work. We're builders first, and everyone is expected to contribute directly to creating exceptional products. * You take it personally when ideas are challenged, priorities shift, or work gets redirected. We care more about finding the right answer than defending a particular one. What we put behind our people Building at the frontier takes exceptional people. We invest accordingly. * Health Insurance : Full private health & dental coverage for you and your dependents. * Pension: Flexible pension scheme with up to 5% employer matching on qualifying earnings. * Food on us: Team lunches twice a week, plus dinner when working late in the office. * Cycle to work: Green Commute initiative scheme (up to £3k) to help you get a new bike tax-free. * Way we work: We combine deep, in-person collaboration (minimum 3 days/week in our Shoreditch office) with flexibility and trust. What matters is ownership, impact, and results, not where you work from. * Visa sponsorship: Yes Compensation We believe exceptional people should be compensated accordingly. £160,000–£300,000 including equity (depending on experience)