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Our mission is to design, build, and deliver real systems that address urgent strategic and industrial capability needs today.\nThe company is fully funded and has confirmed customer demand with orders exceeding projected manufacturing capacity through 2028.\nOur team combines deep technical expertise across multiple disciplines with the operational rigor required to design, manufacture, deploy, and support systems in demanding real-world environments.\nOur culture values execution, builders, doers, and ownership. We move quickly, solve hard problems, and take pride in turning ideas into working systems that deliver meaningful results for our customers and mission partners. If you enjoy building real systems and solving hard problems, we would like to learn more about you. \nABOUT THE JOB\nWe are looking for an Intellectual Property Engineer to join our growing team in the Dallas / Ft. Worth Metro Area, TX.\nThis role is to help build and scale the company’s IP capability from the ground up. This person will work closely with technical teams to identify inventions, evaluate patentability, support patent drafting and prosecution, coordinate prior-art and competitive analysis, and help shape an IP strategy that supports product development, customer deployment, and long-term enterprise value.\nThe right candidate can move fluidly between engineering detail and strategic judgment. They should be comfortable sitting with technical teams to understand how a system actually works, then converting that into clear invention disclosures, claim-supporting technical narratives, and practical recommendations on what is worth protecting, what should remain trade secret, and where potential IP risk exists. Current IP-engineer and patent-agent roles commonly emphasize this bridge between engineers, outside counsel, product, and leadership.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nPartner with mechanical, electrical, software, controls, robotics, manufacturing, and systems engineers to identify patentable innovations early in the development cycle.\n\nLead invention intake and disclosure workflows, including inventor interviews, technical writeups, and documentation of key differentiators.\n\nConduct and coordinate prior-art searches, patentability assessments, and technical landscape reviews.\n\nWork with outside patent counsel and internal stakeholders to support patent drafting, filing, prosecution, continuations, and international filing strategy.\n\nHelp develop practical freedom-to-operate assessments for new products, subsystems, manufacturing methods, and design changes.\n\nMonitor competitor filings, adjacent technology trends, and emerging patent activity relevant to the company’s roadmap.\n\nSupport technical analysis related to infringement risk, design-arounds, licensing discussions, and due diligence efforts.\n\nBuild internal processes, templates, and operating mechanisms for invention harvesting, portfolio review, docket visibility, and patent committee decisions.\n\nAdvise engineering and leadership on when to pursue patent protection versus trade secret treatment.\n\nMaintain strong alignment between IP activity and the company’s commercial priorities, product roadmap, and long-term strategic positioning.\n\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline.\n\nStrong ability to understand and discuss complex technical systems across hardware and software domains.\n\nExperience working with patents, invention disclosures, prior-art review, or technical IP matters in an engineering, R&D, legal, or patent-support environment.\n\nStrong technical writing skills with the ability to convert engineering work into clear, defensible written documentation.\n\nWorking knowledge of patent concepts, including patentability, novelty, non-obviousness, prosecution, and freedom to operate.\n\nAbility to manage multiple technical matters simultaneously in a fast-paced product environment.\n\nStrong judgment, discretion, and ability to handle confidential technical information.\n\nExcellent cross-functional communication skills and comfort working directly with engineers, executives, and external counsel.\n\nAbility to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with high operational urgency\n\nWillingness to spend time on factory floors, test facilities, and deployment environments\n\nLocal to or willingness to relocate to the Dallas / Ft. 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