Legal and Product Engineer (USPTO Examiner Background)
Hybrid (New York, NY)Full-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Role for a USPTO-experienced attorney/agent to impact patent prosecution and examiner-facing product at Solve Intelligence, with ownership over a new product frontier connecting patent offices and internal workflows.
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
Qualifications
- - 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
Skills
Required:US patent lawTechnical degree (CS/EE)Communication / customer-facing
Benefits
- - Competitive base salary depending on skill and experience
- - Significant equity - ownership in Solve Intelligence
- - Full visa sponsorship
- - Opportunity to work with a smart and ambitious group building something people want
- - Private medical insurance
- - Free meals
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Solve Intelligence
AI patent drafting, prosecution, harvesting and more for legal teams.
We provide an in-browser document editor that any patent attorney can start using straight away. It works just like Google Docs but, under the hood, is powered by an AI copilot to help the attorney draft, prosecute, and harvest high-quality patents efficiently. Our product can help with all stages of the patent life cycle, from drafting and filing to prosecution and opposition.
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