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Patent Counsel

San Francisco HQ💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Tech-native Patent Attorney or Senior Patent Agent working directly within the codebase to identify, document, and protect proprietary causal AI and high-performance computing technologies.

Role type

Senior Patent Attorney / Senior Patent Agent (Tech-native)

Builds

Defensible IP portfolio for causal inference breakthroughs and Spiking Neural Network (SNN) architectures

Domain

Artificial Intelligence (Causal Inference) / High-Performance Computing / Software Engineering

Deliverable

Production ML models (via IP protection)

Required skills

Patent prosecution, USPTO registration, technical reading of Python/C++, forensic documentation of invention, portfolio strategy, trade secret vs. patent strategy

Preferred skills

Experience in AI/Software Section 101 battles, background in CS/EE/Physics/Math, startup experience

Technologies

Python, C++, Spiking Neural Networks (SNN), Causal Inference frameworks

Responsibilities

Code-level IP harvesting from repositories and PRs, drafting and managing patent applications, implementing version-controlled invention records, managing global IP portfolio strategy

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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