At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.
About the role
Hark is seeking a Patent Agent to build the hardware side of our patent portfolio from the ground up. This person will own invention harvesting, drafting, and prosecution across our hardware technologies, and will shape how the company decides what to protect as its products move from architecture to prototype to production.
What they're looking for
- Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, with an active registration number
- Bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or a closely related technical discipline
- 5+ years drafting and prosecuting patent applications involving complex hardware technologies, at a firm, in-house, or both
- Experience at a consumer electronics, hardware, semiconductor, wearable, mobile device, or AI hardware company — you know what happens to a patent strategy when an architecture changes late in a build
- You can take an engineer's half-formed disclosure and turn it into a complete application, claims and figures included, without supervision
- Strong command of electrical, mechanical, and systems-level engineering concepts, and the confidence to push an inventor on the details
More about this role
Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.
To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.
Hark is seeking a Patent Agent to build the hardware side of our patent portfolio from the ground up. This person will own invention harvesting, drafting, and prosecution across our hardware technologies, and will shape how the company decides what to protect as its products move from architecture to prototype to production.
This role sits inside Legal but lives with engineering. You will be in design reviews and prototype reviews, sitting with electrical, mechanical, systems,...
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