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# Legal Counsel at Solve Intelligence

- **Company:** Solve Intelligence
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/solveintelligence/07c9b5d3-5bd1-4f75-8741-04b076c32dd9

## Job description

At Solve Intelligence, we are building the AI-powered engine for the global Intellectual Property industry. We have real paying users, exponential growth, and a high-caliber team of AI PhDs and engineers.

🏗️ The Role: Legal Counsel

As a key member of our growing legal team, you will be at the center of our US expansion. You’ll partner directly with our GC, CEO, and CTO to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and accelerate our commercial engine.

What you’ll own:

- Commercial Powerhouse: Draft, review, and negotiate high-stakes B2B SaaS contracts with some of the world’s largest law firms (e.g., DLA Piper) and tech enterprises.
- AI & Product Guardrails: Provide business-oriented legal guidance to our AI researchers and engineers to help shape the product roadmap safely and innovatively.
- Global Compliance: Navigate privacy (GDPR/CCPA), security reviews, and regulatory landscapes across multiple jurisdictions.
- Scalable Infrastructure: Help build the policies and processes that allow a high-growth startup to scale from 600 teams to thousands.
- Problem Solving: Develop creative solutions for novel legal issues arising from generative AI.

💡 About Solve Intelligence

We are the fastest-growing startup transforming how IP professionals work.

- Traction: 20-30% MoM revenue growth; currently serving 600+ IP teams across the US, Europe, and Asia.
- Impact: Our AI-powered platform helps with invention harvesting and patent generation, delivering 50-90% efficiency gains.
- Backing: Recently featured in Sifted https://sifted.eu/articles/solve-intelligence-visionaries-20vc following our $40M Series B announcement, bringing our total funding to $55M from elite investors including Y Combinator, 20VC, Visionaries and others.

👋 Your Team

You will collaborate with a founding team of AI researchers and legal experts:

- Justin https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-doop-199482b0/ (General Counsel): Chemical Engineer and Georgetown Law JD, ex-Quarles.
- 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).

🚀 Who You Are

We are looking for an ambitious, hard-working individual who thrives in a "move fast" culture.

- Strategic Partner: You don't just say "no"; you find the path to "yes" that protects the company.
- Independent & Confident: You are comfortable making decisions across time zones and working autonomously.
- AI-Curious: You are fascinated by the intersection of technology, law, and intellectual property.
- Excellence-Driven: You take extreme ownership of your outcomes and over-deliver on your goals.

🛠️ What You Bring

Must-Haves:

- JD & Bar Admission: J.D. from an accredited school and qualified to practice in New York.
- Experience: 5+ years at a top-tier law firm and/or high-growth in-house environment.
- SaaS Expertise: Proven track record negotiating complex B2B SaaS agreements.
- Communication: Exceptional writing skills and the ability to simplify complex legal concepts for non-lawyers.

Nice-to-Haves:

- Experience with AI regulation and product counseling.
- Background in IT security, data privacy, or corporate law.
- USPTO Admission: Admitted to practice before the USPTO.

🎁 What We Offer

- Competitive Salary + Significant Equity: We want you to have a real stake in the company’s success.
- Career Growth: Help build the US legal function for a generational AI company.
- Perks: Private medical insurance and free meals.
- Intellectual Challenge: Work on the most interesting legal questions in technology today.

Ready to revolutionize the legal landscape? Apply now. 🚀

## 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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