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 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.
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 computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a closely related technical discipline
- 5+ years drafting and prosecuting software patent applications, at a firm, in-house, or both
- Experience at an AI, software, or platform company — you know what happens to a filing plan when a research team wants to publish in three weeks
- Comfortable building in ambiguity — you've stood up prosecution processes from scratch, not just inherited them
- Hands-on by default, you're drafting, not just managing outside counsel
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 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...
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