Legal and Product Engineer (Japanese Speaking)

At Solve Intelligence, we're building the AI-powered infrastructure for the global Intellectual Property landscape. We need a rare hybrid - a Legal and Product Engineer who sits at the exact intersection of patent law and AI innovation to ensure our engine is technically superior and legally airtight. Japan is quickly becoming one of our most exciting markets. We're seeing strong inbound interest and real traction with Japanese IP teams, and we're looking for a Japanese-speaking practitioner to lead those conversations from the front. 📍 Location: London or New York (hybrid), with regular travel to Japan 🏗️ The Role: Legal and Product Engineer (Japanese Speaking) This isn't your typical client-facing role or traditional R&D position. You are the bridge between the complex nuances of patent practice and the cutting-edge AI technology transforming it. You will translate the "language of law" into the "logic of code." And for our Japanese clients, you'll translate it into Japanese too. What you'll own: - AI Output Engineering: Partner with our AI team to iterate on algorithms and prompt engineering, specializing our LLMs for patent-specific tasks like claim analysis, prior art comparison, and obviousness assessments. - Legal Benchmarking: Build proprietary datasets and evaluation frameworks to measure AI performance against real-world USPTO and international patent office requirements. - Product Roadmap: Serve as the internal voice of the practitioner. You'll translate deep client insights from global firms into high-priority product features. - Strategic Partnership: Act as a technical thought partner for IP teams at firms like DLA Piper, leading pilots and ensuring our AI scales seamlessly across their prosecution and litigation workflows. - Playbook Development: Document and scale best practices for AI adoption across diverse sectors, from biotech to deep-tech software. - Japan Market Lead: Be the technical voice of Solve for Japanese law firms and corporate IP departments. You'll run in-depth product demos and technical discussions in Japanese, support our team at conferences and client meetings in Japan, and lead pilots with Japanese clients. - JPO Readiness: Make sure our AI handles Japanese-language patent documents and JPO practice as well as it handles the USPTO and EPO, and build the benchmarks that prove it. 💡 About Solve Intelligence We're the fastest-growing startup transforming the IP industry. - Traction: 20-30% MoM revenue growth; selling to 600+ global IP teams (DLA Piper, tech boutiques, and global enterprises). - Proven Value: Users report 50-90% efficiency gains using our AI platform. - Backing: Recently featured in Sifted https://sifted.eu/articles/solve-intelligence-visionaries-20vc following our $40M Series B announcement, bringing our total funding to $55M from elite investors including Y Combinator, 20VC, Visionaries and others. - Global Momentum: Growing demand from Japan, with a live pipeline of Japanese IP teams ready for deeper technical conversations. 👋 Your Team You'll work directly with a founding team of AI PhDs and systems experts: - Sanj https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanj-ahilan-844b33137/ (CRO): PhD in AI (Gatsby Unit, UCL), ex-Huawei R&D, former lead at Magic Carpet AI (acquired). - Chris https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-parsonson/ (CEO): PhD in AI (UCL), published researcher, ex-Dyson and Alan Turing Institute. - Angus https://www.linkedin.com/in/angus-parsonson/ (CTO): MEng Computer Science, ex-Qualcomm and Coremont (Brevan Howard). 🚀 Who You Are We are a high-performance culture of "hackers" and builders. - Bilingual: You can speak "Patent" to an attorney and "Prompt" to an engineer without losing anything in translation. In this role you're