Technical Product Lead - AI Platform

Lumenci is seeking a Technical Product Lead to own the full lifecycle of its AI-powered patent intelligence platform, iLumos.ai. This is a rare opportunity for a patent domain expert with deep AI fluency to sit at the intersection of patent law, enterprise AI, and product strategy at a fast-scaling IP technology company.

About Lumenci  
Founded in 2018, Lumenci is a premier intellectual property consulting firm specializing in patent litigation, expert witness testimony, and patent monetization for leading corporations and global law firms operating across the software, telecommunications, semiconductors, and emerging technology sectors. 
A key part of Lumenci’s model is the integration of deep technical expertise with litigation strategy. Our teams support high-stakes disputes by developing technical narratives, performing rigorous analysis, and partnering with world-class expert witnesses whose testimony shapes case outcomes in courts and arbitration forums worldwide. 

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Gurugram, India, Lumenci delivers end-to-end support spanning technical analysis, expert strategy, valuation, and monetization execution. Our differentiated approach, which includes combining engineering depth, litigation experience, and operational rigor, has resulted in long-term partnerships with leading law firms and technology companies navigating complex IP disputes. Lumenci is backed by VSS Capital Partners (“VSS”) and Century Equity Partners (“CEP”). VSS is a private equity firm dedicated to investing in tech-enabled business services, healthcare, and education companies. Since 1987, VSS has managed eight private capital funds with aggregate committed capital of nearly $4 billion across 103 platform companies and over 600 add-on acquisitions.  

VSS’s investment in Lumenci was from VSS Structured Capital IV, L.P. (“VSS SC IV”), a $530 million fund that had its final closing in December 2022. CEP is a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, MA, that partners with companies seeking investments to support growth or fund acquisitions, partial buyouts, or recapitalization opportunities. 

Employment Type: Full-time, exempt
Work Arrangement: Remote
Location: US
Reports To: Chief Product Officer

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Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the product roadmap for iLumos.ai

• Prioritize features based on client ROI, competitive gaps, and engineering feasibility

• Define quarterly OKRs and report delivery progress to leadership using AI-generated metrics

• Identify underserved segments — boutique firms, solo practitioners, mid-market in-house teams priced out of premium platforms

• Drive API-first and integration strategy

LLM Workflow Design

• Write system prompts, tool definitions, and structured output specs for every LLM workflow

• Design agentic, multi-step workflow architecture for patent analysis pipelines

• Define evaluation rubrics for LLM-as-judge pipelines; LLM Ops wires them into CI/CD

• Iterate on prompts using Braintrust eval data, attorney feedback, and hallucination reports — prompt changes ship like code

• Maintain a versioned prompt library with eval scores and rollback capability

Patent Domain Authority & Quality Gate

• Serve as the final go/no-go quality gate on all AI-generated outputs before they reach clients

• Validate output accuracy against professional standards expected by Am Law firms and Fortune 500 IP teams

• Curate the gold evaluation dataset — attorney-reviewed ground truth used to benchmark every workflow

• Liaise directly with law firm and corporate IP clients to convert feedback into prompt and pipeline improvements

• Flag and escalate legal accuracy risks; one hallucinated citation in active litigation can cost a client millions

Delivery Cadence & Team Coordination

• Run async-first, output-oriented continuous delivery — measured by what ships

• Replace standups with AI-generated daily digests from commits and deployment events

• Coordinate across Full-Stack and Platform/Security engineering on dependencies without adding process overhead

• Own the enterprise client relationship: demo new capabilities, manage expectations, translate feedback into engineering constraints

• Manage budget, vendor relationships (Anthropic, AWS, data providers), and toolchain discipline

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Patent Domain Requirements

• Claim structure and construction (independent/dependent claims, means-plus-function, PHOSITA standards)

• Claim charting and "reads on" infringement/invalidity mapping

• Prior art analysis under §102/§103, including motivation-to-combine arguments

• Office action review and prosecution history/estoppel strategy

• Invalidity contentions and §112 written description/enablement issues

• Patent portfolio strategy (citation analysis, continuations, FTO)

• USPTO Patent Center, EPO OPS, WIPO PCT, and prior art tools (Derwent, Orbit)

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AI & LLM Requirements

• LLM architecture fundamentals: context windows, temperature, sampling, and their impact on legal output quality

• Prompt engineering: chain-of-thought, few-shot examples, structured JSON schemas, hallucination-prevention constraints

• Tool use / function calling for patent database queries, prior art retrieval, and citation lookup

• Multi-step agent design (LangGraph or equivalent) for stateful patent analysis pipelines

• LLM evaluation: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge patterns, legal accuracy metrics, Braintrust or equivalent

• Hallucination mitigation in legal contexts: citation fabrication, claim scope inflation, jurisdictional drift

• Cost/latency tradeoffs: prompt caching, token economics, batching at enterprise scale

Daily tools: Anthropic Claude API, LangSmith, LangGraph (or equivalent), GitHub, JIRA

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Required Qualifications

Experience: 3–10 years combined across patent domain work and B2B SaaS product management, with a preference for 5+ years in B2B SaaS product management, including at least 2 years at a company competing in a domain with significant legal or regulatory accuracy requirements.

Patent Domain Credentials (at least one required)

• USPTO registered patent agent (registration number required), or

• JD with substantial patent prosecution or litigation experience

• 3+ years hands-on experience with claim charts, invalidity contentions, FTO analyses, or office action responses

• Familiarity with at least one patent analytics platform (Patlytics, Derwent Innovation, Orbit Intelligence, PatSnap, or Google Patents Advanced)

• Technical undergraduate degree preferred (engineering, chemistry, CS, or biology)

• Direct experience working with patent attorneys, Am Law firms, or in-house IP teams

Product & AI Leadership

• Track record shipping AI-powered features to enterprise legal or IP clients

• Comfort operating without a Scrum Master or dedicated QA team — async-first, high-ownership delivery

• Ability to write LLM workflow specs precise enough for engineers to implement without clarification sessions

• Strong client-facing skills: able to demo a half-built product and field hard technical/legal questions

• Ability to make technical tradeoff calls with engineering (latency vs. accuracy, caching vs. freshness, context window vs. cost)

• Sharp prioritization instincts in resource-constrained, high-leverage environments

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Who You Are

• A rare combination of patent domain expert and AI practitioner

• Comfortable owning outcomes with minimal process, at any career stage from early-career to seasoned senior

• Someone who has worked with attorneys or IP teams and understands the real stakes of inaccurate legal AI output

• A builder with taste — you write specs engineers can implement and hold the bar on what ships to clients

• Collaborative and decisive; low-ego but confident enough to disagree with an attorney on claim scope and be right

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What You Will Help Build

• The product and prompt architecture behind iLumos.ai's core LLM workflows

• The gold evaluation dataset and LLM-as-judge framework that sets the professional accuracy bar for legal AI

• A scalable, async-first delivery model that lets a lean team outperform larger, slower incumbents

• Direct relationships with Am Law firms and Fortune 500 IP teams that shape the roadmap

• The category definition for AI-native patent intelligence — built on accuracy, trust, and real domain depth

Why you will love working for Lumenci: 

Be Part of a Global Team: Joining Lumenci means joining a diverse and globally distributed team. You'll collaborate with talented individuals from different backgrounds and cultures, bringing unique perspectives to every project.

Growth and Development Opportunities: At Lumenci, we believe in recognizing and rewarding merit. We offer opportunities for merit-based promotions, allowing you to advance your career based on your performance, contributions, and dedication. We are committed to supporting your professional growth and development, providing the resources and mentorship needed to excel in your role and take on new challenges.

Benefits & Total Rewards 

• Comprehensive Health & Well-being: We offer robust medical, dental, and vision insurance options that include significant company contributions toward employee premiums to support the health of our "Luminaries" and their families. 
• Retirement Strategy: Lumenci provides a 401(k) program with a competitive employer-matching contribution, enabling employees to build long-term financial security. 
• Performance-Based Incentives: Our total cash compensation includes a variable pay component designed to reward both individual achievements (KRAs) and overall company success. 
• Time Off & Leaves: We prioritize work-life harmony through a balanced leave policy that includes accrued Paid Time Off (PTO), designated company holidays, and additional "floating" holidays for personal or cultural significance. 
• Holistic Wellness Support: Beyond standard medical care, we provide dedicated Wellness Leave to address both physical health and emotional well-being, as well as paid leave for significant life events like bereavement and parental bonding. 
• Culture of Autonomy & Growth: Employees benefit from a flexible, remote-first work environment that favors autonomy and provides structured support for ongoing professional development and career advancement.  

Compensation and Pay Transparency 

The expected total annual compensation range for this role is $135,000–$275,000, which may include base compensation and other eligible incentive components. This range reflects national market data for the role and is intended as a general guide; actual pay will vary based on the candidate's location, cost of labor in that geographic market, patent domain credentials, AI/LLM production experience, and overall seniority.

For candidates in jurisdictions that require pay range disclosures, Lumenci will provide a good-faith compensation range specific to the candidate's location as part of the job posting or during the interview process, consistent with applicable law. Where required, the location-specific range may differ from the range stated above.

Salary History: In compliance with applicable laws, Lumenci does not request, require, or rely on an applicant's prior salary history when determining a starting salary or during any part of the hiring process.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Lumenci is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.  

Accommodation: If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete this application or participate in the interview process, please let your recruiter know.  

Employment Relationship: Nothing in this job description creates or is intended to create a contract of employment for any specific period of time. Employment with Lumenci, if offered, is on an at-will basis and may be terminated by either the employee or Lumenci at any time, with or without cause and with or without notice, subject to applicable law.