Head of Engineering IP

We are transforming IP research workflows into an AI-first, scalable platform architecture. Our mission is to convert complex, knowledge-intensive IP workflows—prior art search, patent landscape analysis, FTO, competitive intelligence—into modular, explainable, enterprise-grade AI systems.

The Head of Engineering will lead AI-driven digital transformation across our IP research operations. This role will own the engineering vision, architecture, and execution of intelligent IP workflows—translating deep domain expertise into robust, scalable, production-ready systems & processes. We are seeking a senior engineering leader to architect and execute the transition from expert-centric workflows to scalable, AI-native platforms.

This role owns the engineering delivery of the next-generation IP intelligence systems—transforming prior art search, patent landscaping, Freedom-to-Operate (FTO), and technology benchmarking from manual, analyst-driven processes into robust, explainable, AI-first architectures.

The role is based at our India office location.

Skills & Experience

•           12–15+ years in engineering leadership roles with platform ownership

•             Proven experience building and scaling AI/NLP-powered platforms

•             Background in IP analytics, legal tech, compliance, or other knowledge-intensive domains

•             Deep familiarity with patent data structures, citation networks, and IPC/CPC classifications (strongly preferred)

•             Expertise in LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and RAG architectures for AI agents

•             Experience designing evaluation and quality measurement frameworks for AI systems

•             Strong background in semantic search and information retrieval

•             Experience operationalizing AI systems in secure, enterprise environments

•             Proven ability to design scalable systems handling large structured and unstructured datasets

•             Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels.

•             Comfortable operating in ambiguity during frontier AI adoption

•             Product-oriented, outcome-driven approach to engineering leadership.

•             Comfort balancing rapid innovation with robustness, governance, and explainability.

•             Able to attract and mentor senior engineering talent

Key Competencies

•           Customer focus –core to your role is to provide an excellent service to clients.

•             Judgement – the firm relies on your judgement in the services supplied to clients. This has to be delivered as per the client’s needs, technically excellent, commercial and on time.

•             Technical expertise – strong technical leadership and maintaining your technical competence is critical to ensuring clients receive an excellent service.

•             Networking – you are skilled at developing and growing relationships in the wider market and leveraging these to create opportunities for the business.

•             Communication – you communicate both verbally and in writing in an engaging and purposeful manner.

•             Leadership – you will help drive and lead a culture of continuous development, be able to identify future talent and act as mentor and sponsor.