# Patent Agent, Hardware at Hark

- Company: Hark
- What the company does: At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world.
- Company website: https://hark.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Jose
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-20
- Apply by: 2026-11-04
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hark/jobs/4412331009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hark-patent-agent-hardware/

## 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

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