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In a world where products and software can be replicated overnight, intellectual property is the last durable moat. Every breakthrough in AI, biotech, clean energy, and autonomous systems depends on patent protection to survive. Yet the system meant to protect these innovations hasn't kept up.

Stilta exists to fix that: we build agentic AI for intellectual property, creating the technology that will finally modernize how the world’s most important ideas are defended.

We just closed one of the largest seed rounds in Y Combinator, backed by top Silicon Valley investors. We already work with several of the world’s largest IP firms and Global Fortune 500 companies, and are growing rapidly.

About the role

You'll be one of the first hires outside the founding team - four ex-QuantumBlack engineers, now building Stilta. 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
In a world where products and software can be replicated overnight, intellectual property is the last durable moat. Every breakthrough in AI, biotech, clean energy, and autonomous systems depends on patent protection to survive. Yet the system meant to protect these innovations hasn't kept up.

Stilta exists to fix that: we build agentic AI for intellectual property, creating the technology that will finally modernize how the world’s most important ideas are defended.

We just closed one of the largest seed rounds in Y Combinator, backed by top Silicon Valley investors. We already work with several of the world’s largest IP firms and Global Fortune 500 companies, and are growing rapidly.

About the role
Every deal to date has been closed by the founders - from Global Fortune 500 enterprises to some of the largest IP firms in the world. The product is proven and the pipeline is growing. What's missing is a real sales function.

You will be our first GTM hire and the person who builds the sales motion from zero. This is not a role for someone who wants to step into structure - you are the structure. You will run AI-powered outbound at scale, iterate the playbook in real time alongside the founders, and turn a working pipeline into a repeatable engine.

What you will do
- Run AI-native outbound - leverage Claude, AI research tools, and modern sales stack to generate qualified pipeline at a scale that wouldn't be possible without it
- Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close for IP law firms and enterprise IP teams
- In a world where products and software can be replicated overnight, intellectual property is the last durable moat. Every breakthrough in AI, biotech, clean energy, and autonomous systems depends on patent protection to survive. Yet the system meant to protect these innovations hasn't kept up.
  
  Stilta exists to fix that: we build agentic AI for intellectual property, creating the technology that will finally modernize how the world’s most important ideas are defended.
  
  We just closed one of the largest seed rounds in Y Combinator, backed by top Silicon Valley investors. We already work with several of the world’s largest IP firms and Global Fortune 500 companies, and are growing rapidly.
  About the role
  
  We're hiring a patent professional who wants to shape the future of their field, not just practice in it. You'll be the domain authority inside the company: the person who knows what \"good\" looks like and makes sure our AI meets that bar. You'll lead the domain side of customer engagements with top IP firms and Fortune 500 IP teams, turn real litigation workflows into product, and work directly with engineering to improve how our agents reason about claims, prior art, and infringement.
  What you will do
  - Join enterprise demos and pilots as the domain expert
  - Onboard customers: train teams, configure workflows, ensure first-week value
  - Set and enforce the quality standard for AI-generated analysis - claim charts, prior art mappings, infringement assessments - against the bar you know from practice
  - Translate what patent professionals need under real pressure into product decisions and feature priorities

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