Legal and Product Engineer

This role combines deep patent expertise with AI systems development to drive client success and product innovation at Solve. You'll serve as both a trusted advisor to patent professionals and a technical contributor to our AI-powered patent platform.

🏗️ About the role

We are looking for talented members of our legal and product patent team. We're looking for someone who sits at the intersection of patent law and AI innovation. This isn't your typical client-facing role or traditional R&D position - it's something entirely new. You'll be the bridge between the complex world of patent practice and the cutting-edge AI technology that's transforming it.

What you’ll do:

• AI Output Optimization:
  • Work closely with our AI and Engineering team to define and develop products and AI systems specifically for patent applications, prosecution, portfolio management, freedom-to-operate, and patent litigation
  • Work closely with our AI team to iterate and develop algorithms and prompts to specialize our AI systems for patent professionals, and prompt engineer large language models for patent-specific tasks (claim analysis, prior art comparison, obviousness assessment, etc.)
  • Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets to evaluate patent AI models against real-world USPTO and international patent office requirements
• Product Development:
  • Serve as the voice of patent practitioners inside Solve - translating client insights into product development priorities and roadmap decisions
  • Document best practices and develop scalable playbooks for patent AI adoption across different practice areas (biotech, software, mechanical, etc.)
  • Help clients navigate the transformation of patent practice through AI - from evaluating ROI on automated prior art searches to mapping AI impact across prosecution, litigation, and portfolio management workflows
  • Tackle unsolved AI problems specific to patent law complexities and examination processes
• Client Partnership & AI Deployment:
  • Act as a strategic thought partner to patent attorneys, IP professionals, and corporate legal teams - building trusted relationships and identifying high-value opportunities to scale their use of Solve's patent AI platform
  • Take full ownership of client relationships from initial pilots through firm-wide adoption across major IP practices and corporate patent departments
  • Deliver compelling product demonstrations and training sessions that showcase how AI transforms patent workflows - from prior art searches to claim drafting and prosecution strategy

🚀 Who you are

We are a young company of highly motivated, ambitious, and hard-working individuals building a billion-dollar business. Our fundamental motivation is to build a state-of-the-art AI product to assist humans in generating intellectual property and to have mass market adoption of our software.

To thrive in this environment, you’ll have the following characteristics: You’re motivated to ship product fast - you prioritise speed, are always itching to move faster, and want to put things in the hands of customers to get critical feedback in days, not months. You’re passionate about mass adoption of AI - we’re at the beginning of an exponential curve, and we want to take the latest AI technology and build it into a useful product as quickly as possible. You’re a driven individual with a strong work ethic - our team is committed to going the extra mile, even if it means working long nights and weekends to achieve our goals. You strive for excellence in every aspect of your work - you take ownership of your outcomes and overdeliver on your goals. You’re humble, eager to learn whatever it takes to help your team and customers succeed, and an optimist who thrives in a positive environment.

👋 Who you’ll work with

Sanj (Chief Research Officer and co-founder): Sanj did his MSci in Physics at the University of Cambridge and his PhD in AI at the Gatsby Unit, UCL. He won awards at top AI conferences, worked on the R&D team at Huawei, and received widespread attention for his contributions to open-source LLM GitHub projects. He joined Magic Carpet AI as employee #4, where he developed AI strategies for trading which deployed millions of capital before being acquired by Blockchain.com.

Chris (Chief Executive Officer and co-founder): Chris did his undergrad at Imperial College, masters at the University of Cambridge, and PhD at UCL, during which he published 10+ publications and won awards in top AI conferences and journals. He has worked in leading tech organisations, including Dyson, The Alan Turing Institute, and InstaDeep before its acquisition by BioNTech.

Angus (Chief Technology Officer and co-founder): Angus did an MEng in Computer Science at the University of Bristol where he won a cyber security scholarship at GCHQ before working at Qualcomm. He then joined a London-based hedge fund, Coremont (Brevan Howard). There, he led a small team to build a greenfield trade processing platform which scaled to millions of trades per day.

You’ll also work with the rest of our super talented team of AI researchers, software engineers, patent attorneys, and go-to-market experts.

🛠️ What you bring

As our Legal & Product Engineer, you will have extensive experience with patent prosecution and interacting with clients.

Must haves:

• Admitted to practice before the USPTO, EPO or JPO.
• 3+ years of patent prosecution experience.
• Undergraduate degree, preferably in engineering or life sciences.

Preferred haves:

• Experience prompt engineering and working with AI tools.
• Experience working directly with clients.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with software development, including knowledge of Python and prompt engineering.

🎁 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.