AI Engineer

Patlytics, Inc. • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Patlytics is the fastest-growing AI-native patent intelligence platform, transforming how IP is protected and monetized at scale. Their advanced LLMs and generative AI engine, custom-built for intellectual property, power every phase of the patent workflow from invention disclosure through litigation, delivering citation-backed insights with unprecedented accuracy and speed. Following a $40M Series B funding round, the company is rapidly scaling across product, engineering, and go-to-market, aiming to triple down on product development, accelerate global growth, and hire mission-aligned colleagues. With teams across the globe, Patlytics is building a global company fueled by exceptional talent and bold ideas, driven by people who bring entrepreneurial energy, intellectual curiosity, and a shared commitment to setting the global standard for AI-powered IP intelligence. They are creating a culture where diverse perspectives shape breakthrough innovation and every voice contributes to transforming how the world protects ideas. The company hires for trajectory and encourages candidates who meet at least 70% of the listed qualifications to apply.

Requirements

• Shipped LLM-powered features that real users depend on, not just demos or side projects, with a track record of turning prototype prompts into production pipelines with monitoring and fallbacks
• Ability to think in evals first, asking 'how will we know if this is better?' before writing a prompt and building the scaffolding to answer that question rigorously
• Comfortable with ambiguity at the model layer, understanding that Claude, GPT, and Gemini make different tradeoffs, and having developed intuition for when to switch, fine-tune, or route between them
• Solid Python programming skills and enough backend instincts to own a service end-to-end: API design, data pipelines, async processing, and observability
• Ability to read a patent claim and not immediately give up, with curiosity about domain knowledge and willingness to become a genuine expert in IP reasoning over time
• Strong technical background building ML & AI pipelines
• Great understanding of ML methods and statistics, including ML project lifecycle and associated challenges at each stage of development
• Experience deploying, monitoring and maintaining data science products in cloud environments such as AWS and GCP
• Solid understanding of data transformations and analytics functions using tools/languages like Pandas, Sklearn, SQL, Spark, etc.
• Familiarity with database modeling, data warehousing principles and SQL

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy robust, scalable AI/ML algorithms for cutting-edge IP applications
• Design, implement, and iterate on multi-step LLM pipelines for patent claim analysis, infringement detection, and prior art search, including the model selection, prompt architecture, and structured output contracts that define product quality
• Build and maintain a rigorous evals framework: define success metrics per pipeline stage, curate golden datasets from real IP cases, and run continuous regression testing to catch degradation before users do
• Develop retrieval systems (vector search, BM25 hybrids, re-ranking) optimized for patent corpus characteristics, long documents, technical claim language, biological sequence identifiers
• Architect and ship agentic workflows within our Agent layer, coordinating tool use, memory, and multi-turn reasoning over complex IP research tasks
• Develop data classification techniques and post-training on the latest LLMs
• Collaborate with patent attorneys and domain experts to encode expert judgment into prompts, rubrics, and fine-tuning datasets, then measure whether it worked
• Own cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs for production inference: prompt caching strategies, context window management, batching, and model migration planning on AWS, GCP and other LLM providers.
• Partner with a highly talented cross functional group of researchers, applied scientists, engineers, and product managers to build and evolve the (your company’s platform, product, solution, etc.)
• Work with large, complex data sets, solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, and apply advanced analytical methods as needed
• Partner with the Leadership Team to align development strategies with key product requirements and long-term technical roadmap
• Build tools to monitor data pipeline performance, data quality and models in production
• Perform unit testing, profiling, and parameter tuning
• Collaborate with data engineers & platform team to implement data pipelines and robust production real-time and batch decisioning solutions
• Lead ongoing R&D of new technologies, data sources and data science & optimization tools
• Improve existing machine learning methodologies by developing new sources and testing enhancements, running computational experiments, and fine-tuning parameters

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage – Medical, dental, vision, plus FSA, commuter benefits, and health advocacy through Rightway
• Mental health & wellness support – Access to Spring Health and Headspace, plus "Mental Escape Days" to recharge when you need it
• Immediate 401(k) enrollment – No waiting period to start saving for your future
• Generous time off – Unlimited PTO, 12 paid company holidays, plus a full week off during our Holiday Break
• Family-first policies – Paid parental leave to support you during life's biggest moments
• Invest in yourself – Professional development budget, gym membership stipend, and learning opportunities
• Celebrate what matters – Birthday and work anniversary recognition, plus generous employee referral bonuses
• Hybrid work environment (open to remote pending location), while staying connected with a passionate and talented team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed