What the role involves
You'll be one of the first hires outside the founding team and your decisions will shape the product for years. You'll build across the full stack: multi-agent reasoning pipelines, retrieval over hundreds of millions of patents and scientific literature, and the surfaces that practitioners at top IP firms and Fortune 500 IP teams use daily.
These are problems without established patterns. You're building agentic software that patent lawyers actually trust to do substantive work - and you'll define what this category of product looks like.
What you will do
Build and improve the multi-agent architecture powering invalidity search, infringement analysis, freedom to operate research, and more
Own the full lifecycle of features - from talking to customers about what they need to watching them use it in production
Push code to production daily. Your code reaches users in hours or days, not weeks
Build retrieval, reasoning, and evaluation systems that run autonomously over millions of documents with reliable source-backed results
Set engineering standards for a codebase that will scale to a large team\
What we are looking for
Exceptional matters more than experienced - we care about what you can do, not how long you've been doing it
Strong engineering fundamentals and opinionated about product
You write software with and for AI agents, and have shipped agentic systems before
You can take a product idea from sketch to production single-handedly - write the specs, build the UI, wire the agent pipeline, deploy the infra
Comfortable across Python and TypeScript, and you've worked with enough infrastructure - vector databases, distributed compute, cloud orchestration - that none of it slows you down
Experience navigating enterprise requirements - SOC 2, data residency, access controls - is a plus
What they ask for
About Stilta
Stilta builds agentic AI software for intellectual property, starting with patent litigation. Whether challenging or enforcing a patent, leading IP law firms and in-house IP teams use Stilta for source-backed, auditable analysis. Innovation drives the world's most important breakthroughs, but the tools that protect it haven't kept pace. Patent attorneys do high-stakes work with a process still built on manual document review and disconnected point solutions. Generative AI helps with drafting, but it doesn't deliver the trust and transparency that legal-grade work demands - no sources, no traceability, no audit trail. Stilta takes a different approach. We use agentic AI to run search and analysis at a scale manual methods can't match, with every output source-backed, referenced, and auditable. Until recently, this wasn't technically possible. We're four engineers from McKinsey/QuantumBlack who built and deployed AI systems at some of the world's largest organizations. With Stilta, we're equipping the people who protect the world's most valuable ideas with tools that match the stakes.
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