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#vacancy #US #intellectualproperty
Vacancy:
Head of IP at 1X
Qualifications and skills:
• Demonstrated track record of building and managing patent portfolios in hardware, robotics, AI, or another deep-tech domain (typically 10+ years in intellectual property, in-house or at a top firm)
• Hands-on patent expertise - drafting, prosecution strategy, and portfolio management - for complex technical inventions
• Proven ability to run patent landscaping, freedom-to-operate analysis, and competitive assessments to inform offensive and defensive decisions
• Experience setting trade secret protection strategy alongside patents in a technical organization
• A technical degree (engineering, computer science, or a related field) with a working understanding of robotics, AI, mechatronics, or comparable systems
• Experience partnering directly with engineering and product teams to capture inventions at the source
• Experience with intellectual property in humanoid robotics, autonomous systems, or embodied AI
• Registered to practice before the USPTO (patent bar), as a patent agent or patent attorney
• Familiarity with trademark, brand, copyright, and open-source compliance strategy
• Experience building an inventor disclosure and incentive program
• Experience managing international filing strategy (PCT and priority markets)
Responsibilities:
• Own and execute a company-wide patent roadmap that prioritizes 1X's most defensible and commercially critical inventions across robotics, AI, and hardware
• Drive invention capture by embedding directly with engineering, AI, and hardware teams to surface patentable technology early and convert it into high-quality filed patents
• Build a portfolio that protects 1X's freedom to operate and creates leverage against competitors, measured by filing velocity, grant rate, and coverage of our core technology
• Identify and recommend strategic patents to acquire - both offensively and defensively - through landscape and competitive analysis, and lead diligence on those acquisitions
• Establish a trade secret protection program and decide, invention by invention, what 1X protects through patents versus trade secrets
• Stand up the function hands-on, then build and grow the team as company and product milestones warrant - not on a fixed timeline
