Patent Data Quality & AI Readiness Specialist

Relx Plc; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Relx PLC's patent data team seeks a Patent Data Specialist (Enrichment Quality & AI Readiness) to clean and validate patent data, using SQL, Python, and AI tools. You will work with senior experts to define governance and test sets, ensuring accurate ownership, families, and legal status across jurisdictions.

You will analyze data for quality issues, propose fixes, and help design checks to prevent recurrence, while documenting rules for consistent, automated application.

Qualifications

• Experience with patent data or patent information in a data role.
• Understanding of families, priority claims, kind codes, legal status and authorities.
• Hands-on data skills in SQL, Python, or similar tools.
• Methodical approach to data quality, spotting anomalies and root causes.
• Practical use of AI tools in data work beyond basic chat.
• Clear written communication to explain data rules and edge cases.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain quality standards for patent families, ownership, legal status and coverage.
• Build and maintain versioned test sets and worked examples for automated evaluation.
• Analyse data to find quality problems, investigate root causes with engineering.
• Lead small quality-improvement projects end to end with supporting colleagues.
• Assess data quality from new sources and authorities before/after entering the platform.
• Review output of automated AI-assisted enrichment and feed learnings back.
• Document rules and decisions clearly for consistent application.
• Present findings to colleagues and stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

AI tools

Education

Science/Engineering/Info Science degree

Job description

Relx PLC's patent data team seeks a Patent Data Specialist (Enrichment Quality & AI Readiness) to clean and validate patent data, using SQL, Python, and AI tools. You will work with senior experts to define governance and test sets, ensuring accurate ownership, families, and legal status across jurisdictions.

You will analyze data for quality issues, propose fixes, and help design checks to prevent recurrence, while documenting rules for consistent, automated application.