IP Engineer
Listed on 2026-06-12
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering
We empower smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions ensuring the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. We provide the latest industry insights and technology to develop solutions needed to meet customers evolving challenges, including innovative critical power solutions designed for high reliability and performance.
Our culture is one of quality and operational excellence fueled and supported by talented people, tools and processes, and expertise.
This position reports to the General Counsel and will be located in Plano, TX, USA.
Responsibilities- Collaborate with R&D teams to identify patentable inventions and facilitate invention disclosures.
- Participate in R&D teams meetings to align patent fillings with commercial roadmaps, product launches and company growth targets.
- Conduct prior art searches and provide patentability and freedom-to-operate analysis.
- Assist with internal and external patent drafting and prosecution processes.
- Maintain IP databases and generate regular reports on portfolio status.
- Monitor competitor patents and industry IP trends.
- Conduct regular competitive landscape assessments to identify competitor capabilities, new technology trends and potential R&D directions.
- Support IP litigation, licensing, and enforcement activities when needed.
- Assist in IP due diligence activities for potential partnerships, acquisitions or technology transfers.
- Provide training to engineers on IP awareness and best practices.
- Support R&D teams world-wide, including U.S. and China
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Familiarity with patent systems in major jurisdictions (e.g., US, EP, CN).
- Excellent analytical and communication skills.
- Experience with patent search tools.
- Ability to act as a "translator" between highly technical R&D engineers and legal/business stakeholders.
- Experience in drafting high-quality invention disclosure forms and reviewing claims for clarity and breadth.
- Patent Agent qualification or IP certification is a plus.
- Fluent in English. Mandarin is a plus.
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