- Robot type
- Warehouse and Logistics
- Location
- WatertownMassachusettsUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- Sep 3, 2026
- Salary
- $135,000–$170,000 a year
Patent Agent / Patent Engineer (Robotics)
Job description
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.
We believe general-purpose, generally-intelligent robots will be built in our lifetimes. Robots will work in our factories, move our goods, walk on our streets and eventually be in our homes. To build that future, research and deployment must work in lockstep: real-world operation must make the technology better and better technology must make deployment easier. We're looking for the thinkers, builders, and researchers who want to be part of that loop.
As an AI robotics company that deploys its inventions directly into the facilities that need them, on…
Job 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.
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