Legal and Product Engineer (USPTO Examiner Background)

Solve Intelligence • New York City, NY

6d • Remote

About The Position

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. You'll be responsible for bringing firsthand USPTO examiner experience into product discussions, shaping how Solve builds for the examiner side of the patent process, supporting Solve's push into working directly with global patent offices, including the USPTO and EPO, by lending credibility and hands on domain expertise, helping onboard and support examiner users as Solve's examiner-facing product and contracts come online, and partnering 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 Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Bringing firsthand USPTO examiner experience into product discussions, shaping how Solve builds for the examiner side of the patent process
• Supporting Solve's push into working directly with global patent offices, including the USPTO and EPO, by lending credibility and hands on domain expertise
• Helping onboard and support examiner users as Solve's examiner-facing product and contracts come online
• Partnering closely with Solve's existing patent attorneys to ramp quickly on Solve's workflows and tooling

Benefits

• Competitive base salary depending on skill and experience
• Significant equity
• Full visa sponsorship
• Opportunity to work with a super smart and ambitious group of people building something people want
• Private medical insurance
• Free meals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior