Patent Agent, Software

Hark is seeking a Patent Agent to build the software side of our patent portfolio from the ground up. This person will own drafting and prosecution across our models, inference systems, and platform software, and will shape how the company decides what to protect as its research moves from experiment to product.

This role sits inside Legal but lives with research and engineering. You will work alongside the people building our foundation models, on-device inference, agentic systems, and product software, finding the inventions before anyone has thought to write them down. Then you will go draft the applications yourself.

Software patents are won or lost on subject-matter eligibility, and the work of getting a claim allowed starts long before the first office action. It starts in the specification, and before that, in understanding the technical problem well enough to say precisely what the invention improves. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who wants to author that strategy rather than inherit it.