Patent Agent - AI/Software

Mercola•Cape Coral, FL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is the kind of role patent professionals talk about for the rest of their careers. You won’t inherit a slow-moving legal department buried under layers of review. You’ll help build one of the most ambitious AI-powered patent operations being assembled anywhere today. You’ll protect breakthrough inventions across artificial intelligence, recursive learning systems, intelligent software platforms, and next-generation digital health innovation. Your work could help accelerate technologies designed to influence millions of lives around the world. You’ll operate with true ownership. Your judgment. Your signature. Your prosecution strategy. Your name on the filings. You’ll work alongside an AI-driven invention engine moving at extraordinary speed while still owning the human expertise that matters most. You’ll help reshape the future of how software and AI inventions move from concept to protected intellectual property. This is not a maintenance role. It is a chance to help define a new era of patent prosecution. Your next 5 minutes could land you in our top 5% shortlist — click Apply to start your application (a short, simple step to put you in the running). Patent Agent – AI/Software Domain ROLE SNAPSHOT — Pay: [PAY_PLACEHOLDER] Location/Schedule: Remote or On-site, Full-Time Purpose: Lead end-to-end prosecution for high-volume AI and software patent filings within an AI-accelerated in-house patent operation.

Requirements

Active USPTO Patent Bar registration in good standing.
Minimum 4 years of patent prosecution experience post-registration.
Minimum 50 patent applications drafted, prosecuted, or substantively responded to in software, AI/ML, or computer-architecture domains.
BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
Demonstrated success drafting and prosecuting around Alice / §101 challenges.
Ability to independently sign and prosecute filings without attorney supervision.
Comfort operating in AI-augmented drafting environments.
Ability to work in a fast-moving in-house production model.

Nice To Haves

Prior in-house IP experience with large-scale technology organizations.
Experience in high-volume patent-agent tracks at leading intellectual property firms.
Hands-on experience using generative AI drafting tools in production prosecution workflows.
Familiarity with AI systems, multi-agent architectures, knowledge graphs, or software platform technologies.

Responsibilities

Review, redline, prosecute, sign, and file AI/software patent applications generated through the Patent Engine workflow.
File provisionals, non-provisionals, PCT applications, and continuations through USPTO Patent Center.
Respond to office actions involving §101, §102/§103, and §112 issues.
Conduct examiner interviews when strategically beneficial.
Operate as the primary human reviewer for AI-drafted applications, identifying weaknesses, inconsistencies, and prosecution risks.
Collaborate directly with software and AI inventor teams to transform technical disclosures into prosecutable claims.
Feed prosecution learnings and redline patterns back into the Patent Engine for recursive drafting improvement.
Maintain rapid turnaround expectations for standard and priority filings.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
Optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Spending Accounts
Dayforce Wallet – get paid as you earn
Employee Discount
Retirement Planning (401k with matching contribution)
Pet Insurance
Wellness Program Offerings
Paid Time Off, accrued per pay period based on years of service, starting at 20 days annually.
9 Paid Holidays per year, including 1 floating holiday.