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# Legal and Product Engineer (USPTO Examiner Background) at Solve Intelligence

- **Company:** Solve Intelligence
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $100k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solveintelligence/efed75b8-88f6-4fe7-aac6-bca09f3d247c

## Job description

Are you a patent attorney or agent who spent time as a USPTO examiner and knows firsthand what happens on the other side of the desk? Do you want to help build the product that changes how the patent office itself works, not just the firms filing into it? Do you want real ownership over a brand new frontier at a fast-growing company, instead of another year of incremental work at a firm?

This is your chance to join a rocket ship! 🚀

## 🏗️ 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.

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
- Partnering closely with Solve's existing patent attorneys to ramp quickly on Solve's workflows and tooling

## 👤 ABOUT YOU

As a Legal & Product Engineer, you will have extensive experience navigating patent prosecution from both sides of the process, through work as a USPTO examiner and time in private practice.

- 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

## 💰 WHAT WE OFFER

- 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.
- Opportunity to work with a super smart and ambitious group of people building something people want.
- Private medical insurance.
- Free meals.

## 🚀 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 https://www.solveintelligence.com/blog/post/solve-intelligence-raises-40m-series-b-to-build-ai-for-patents-and-launches-charts.

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 https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanj-ahilan-844b33137/ (CRO): PhD in AI (Gatsby Unit, UCL), ex-Huawei R&D, former lead at Magic Carpet AI (acquired).
- Chris https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-parsonson/ (CEO): PhD in AI (UCL), published researcher, ex-Dyson and Alan Turing Institute.
- Angus https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-parsonson/ (CTO): MEng Computer Science, ex-Qualcomm and Coremont (Brevan Howard).

## About Solve Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Solve Intelligence provides an AI-powered platform for patent drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting, trusted by over 500 IP teams globally.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – raised $55M total from Y Combinator, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, 20VC, and others)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (with offices in New York, US and Munich, Germany)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Chris Parsonson, Sanj Ahilan, Angus Parsonson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Legal technology (intellectual property and patents)
- **Target customers**: B2B – IP law firms, in-house corporate legal teams, and independent inventors
- **Mission**: To make the patent process faster, cheaper, and higher quality by leveraging AI breakthroughs, covering every step from drafting to grant and litigation.

## Products & Services
- **Patent Application Drafting**: AI-assisted interactive drafting of full and partial patent applications (standalone, continuation, divisional, CIP, and design). The AI adapts to the user’s writing style and supports figures, chemical structures, and biological sequences.
- **Office Action Response (Prosecution)**: Collaborative drafting of responses with AI-generated claim amendments, arguments, and built-in citations to file wrapper documents and case law.
- **Claim Charts**: Interactive generation of invalidity, SEP, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and portfolio analysis charts. The AI provides multi-source citations and transparent logic per cell.
- **Invention Harvesting**: Standardized invention disclosure forms, customisable question sets, and a central dashboard to track submissions and inventor status.

All products are delivered as a SaaS platform with strict security guarantees: no AI model training on customer data, SOC 2 Type 2 / ISO 27001 / ISO 42001 / GDPR / CCPA compliance, data stored and processed locally (US, Europe, etc.), and AES-256 / TLS 1.3 encryption.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$55M** (Series A $12M, Series B $40M, plus seed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2023 batch), Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, 20VC, Operator Collective, Visionaries
- **Notable Customers**: DLA Piper, Siemens, Perkins Coie, Amgen (among 500+ IP teams across six continents)
- **Growth Signals**: Team size of **43** (as of mid-2025); launched a new Claim Charts product; reported 60–90% efficiency gains by customers; active hiring across engineering, AI, and legal roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Uncompromising confidentiality**: No customer data used for AI model training; sandboxed per client; no third-party monitoring.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, CCPA; data localization and encryption in transit/at rest.
- **Domain-specific AI**: Built by a team combining patent attorneys, AI PhDs, and software engineers; the AI understands patent law nuances, supports multi-source citations, and adapts to individual writing styles.
- **End-to-end coverage**: Drafting, prosecution, claim charts, and invention harvesting in one platform, reducing the need for multiple tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continue building out features for the full patent lifecycle (including litigation support).
- **Global reach**: Growing presence across the US, Europe, and Asia, with customers on six continents.
- **AI quality**: Deepening the AI’s ability to handle complex technical content (e.g., chemical structures, biological sequences) and improving citation accuracy and transparency.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Work on AI that directly improves patent quality and speed for the world’s top IP teams. The founders are PhDs in machine learning with a track record of publishing at top AI conferences.
- **Team**: A mix of AI researchers, software engineers, and patent attorneys – a rare combination that fosters cross-domain learning.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid/remote-friendly roles available; offices in London, New York, and Munich. Some roles are open to “any (new grads ok)”.
- **Compensation**: Salaries range from $70K to $250K (depending on role and seniority), plus equity.
- **Culture**: Emphasis on trust, transparency, and innovation. The company is Y Combinator-backed and growing fast (43 employees, actively hiring).

## Sources
1. [solveintelligence.com](https://www.solveintelligence.com/) – Product descriptions, security guarantees, customer testimonials, and feature pages.
2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/solve-intelligence) – Company overview, founding team, funding ($55M), team size (43), batch (Summer 2023), and job listings.
3. [linkedin.com](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/solve-intelligence) – Headquarters location, industry, and employee count (39–43 range).
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/solve-intelligence) – Total funding amount ($55.1M), patent filings, and company financials.

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