Legal and Product Engineer (USPTO Examiner Background)
About The Role
We are looking for a Legal & Product Engineer with USPTO examiner experience to help us build for the patent office side of the table, as we expand beyond private practice law firms into direct relationships with patent offices themselves. You'll be joining the most lean, talent-dense, and fast-moving legal team in New York.
Responsibilities
- Bring firsthand USPTO examiner experience into product discussions, shaping how Solve builds for the examiner side of the patent process
- Support Solve's push into working directly with global patent offices, including the USPTO and EPO, by lending credibility and hands-on domain expertise
- Help onboard and support examiner users as Solve's examiner-facing product and contracts come online
- Partner closely with Solve's existing patent attorneys to ramp quickly on Solve's workflows and tooling
Requirements
- Registered US patent attorney or patent agent, with a technical degree in a field like computer science or electrical engineering
- Former USPTO patent examiner, having examined applications for at least 1 to 2 years
- Currently working in private practice or in-house, not a currently active examiner and not someone who has returned to government work
- 3 to 5+ years of total experience across USPTO examining and private practice combined
- Comfortable and confident in customer-facing settings, from customer calls to product demos
- Self-directed with a startup mindset, ready to move faster and take more ownership than typical government or firm work allows
Nice To Have
- Examining background in software, AI, or electrical art units
- Comfort using AI tools as part of daily workflow
- Drafting or prosecution experience in software or AI-adjacent technologies
- Time at a well-regarded firm
Benefits
- Competitive base salary depending on skill and experience
- Significant equity - we want you to take ownership in Solve Intelligence and share in the success that lies ahead
- Full visa sponsorship
- Private medical insurance
- Free meals
- Opportunity to work with a super smart and ambitious group of people building something people want
Pay
Compensation Range: $100K - $220K
About Solve Intelligence
Solve Intelligence is the fastest-growing startup transforming the IP landscape. Solve's AI platform manages everything from invention harvesting and patent generation through to litigation and licensing.
- Growth: ~20–30% MoM revenue growth; selling to 700+ global IP teams across 6 continents (DLA Piper, tech giants, boutiques, etc); 8 figures of ARR — all just ~3 years since we started.
- Backing: $55M backing from YC, 20VC, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and the founders of top companies like Stripe, Perplexity, Tinder, Deel, Hugging Face, and Canva.
- Impact: 50–90% efficiency and quality improvements. See our latest Series B announcement.
We're on a high-growth trajectory, and we're looking for people who want to join us on the journey to building a generational AI company.
Meet the founders
You’ll work directly with a founding team of AI PhDs and systems experts:
- Sanj (CRO): PhD in AI (Gatsby Unit, UCL), ex-Huawei R&D, former lead at Magic Carpet AI (acquired).
- Chris (CEO): PhD in AI (UCL), published researcher, ex-Dyson and Alan Turing Institute.
- Angus (CTO): MEng Computer Science, ex-Qualcomm and Coremont (Brevan Howard).