Patent Engineer (Small Molecule Chemistry)

• Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We're just getting started.

We're looking for a patent professional with deep small molecule chemistry expertise who can bridge product development, engineering, and IP protection. You'll work hands-on with pharmaceutical and biotech customers to design AI-powered patent solutions that understand the nuances of chemical structure, synthesis routes, formulations, and chemical patent drafting conventions.

• Build chemistry-specific patent products: Partner with product and engineering teams to develop AI tools tailored for small molecule patents - from structure-activity relationship analysis to formulation claim generation to prior art searching across chemical databases

• Embed with pharma/biotech customers: Work directly with in-house patent counsel and patent prosecution teams at pharmaceutical companies to design, prototype, and deploy high-value proofs of concept for chemistry patent workflows

• Shape product development with chemistry expertise: Translate complex patent chemistry challenges into product requirements - ensuring our AI understands Markush structures, chemical nomenclature, synthesis descriptions, and pharmaceutical claim drafting

• Drive customer success in chemistry patents: Run technical sessions with patent professionals to ensure our products deliver measurable value for chemistry patent portfolios

• Identify chemistry patent opportunities: Spot emerging needs across medicinal chemistry, process chemistry, formulation patents, and regulatory IP strategies

• Location: Shoreditch, London (we operate an office first policy with flexibility)

• Contract: Full-time

• Compensation: We pay competitive salaries and will reward you with a substantial equity package under the tax-efficient EMI scheme.

• Visa sponsorship: Yes

• Chemistry patent expertise: 2+ years of experience in chemical patent prosecution, pharmaceutical IP, or chemistry-focused patent work with deep understanding of small molecule patent lifecycle (from invention disclosure through grant and enforcement)
• Technical chemistry foundation: Strong grasp of organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry principles, synthetic routes, formulation science, and how these translate into patentable subject matter
• Builder's mindset: You thrive in ambiguity, iterate quickly on prototypes, and love creating order from chaos. You can move between high-level patent strategy and detailed chemical claim construction
• Extreme ownership: You see problems before they happen, take responsibility for outcomes, and deliver. This is how you grow—and how we win
• [Bonus points] Experience at patent law firms handling pharmaceutical/biotech clients, in-house patent counsel experience at pharma/biotech companies, or chemistry PhD combined with patent training