The Job:Tutor Intelligence is a robotics research and deployment company, innovating across the full robotics stack- hardware, software systems, applications, machine learning, and more.
We generate patentable inventions faster than we can keep up with, and we are hiring our first in-house patent engineer to own the portfolio.
Responsibilities:- Knowing what to file: You stay close to what engineering is building, work out which of it is worth patenting, and get it filed in time.
- The filings: You write our patent applications: claims, specification, figures. Outside counsel reviews and prosecutes them.
- The portfolio: Deadlines, fees, counsel spend, and where every matter stands. You keep it in order and flag what needs a decision.
- Outside IP questions: Diligence, customers, partners. You know the portfolio well enough to answer.
- Strategy with founders and leadership: You identify what we need to know in order to make sound decisions about what, when, and how we file, and you make those choices with us.
Pre-Requisites:A JD is unnecessary, and applicants need not be registered patent agents, though applicants with either or both of these qualifications are more than welcome.
The strongest candidates are engineers first: current on the cutting edge of robotics and physical AI, credible in a technical review with our researchers, experienced in both patent drafting and working with counsel, and able to operate with autonomy and conviction in this role.
- 2+ years drafting patent applications in robotics, mechatronics, controls, computer vision, or machine learning, with a body of applications you personally drafted
- BS or MS in mechanical engineering, EE, CS, or robotics, with enough depth to read our code, learn our systems, and capture what is novel about them
- The ability to pull invention out of busy engineers without becoming a tax on their time
- Precise technical writing, and comfort being the person the record depends on
- Judgment about what deserves protection, what's a trade secret, and what to let go
Nice to Have:- Experience at a hardware or robotics startup where the portfolio was still being built
- Experience managing an outside firm as the client, on scope, quality, and spend
LogisticsOnsite in Watertown, MA. The robots and the engineers are here.
$135,000 - $170,000 a year
