US Patent Attorney - Prosecution & Litigation (AI Review)

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to evaluate frontier models on high-quality patent reasoning data. We hire US patent attorneys with prosecution and/or litigation experience to review model-generated patent materials, judge quality, and annotate legal, technical, factual, and citation errors directly in the documents.

The role is an hourly engagement (~20 hours/week) open to candidates in the United States, with immediate start.

Qualifications

• Admitted to practice in at least one US state (active bar).
• 3+ years of US patent practice – prosecution and/or patent litigation.
• For prosecution work: registered to practice before the USPTO (patent bar, registration number).
• Hold a technical or scientific degree (engineering, computer science, life sciences, chemistry, physics or similar).
• Hold a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school.
• Write clearly and pay close attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Review patent-related outputs and assess quality against defined dimensions.
• Annotate inline, flagging legal, technical, factual, claim-construction and citation errors.
• Provide clear, well-reasoned explanations for each judgment.
• Complete all assigned reviews within the review window.
• Attend a short onboarding session before kickoff.

Skills

US patent practice

Prosecution experience

Litigation experience

Bar admission

Education

J.D. from ABA-accredited law school

Technical or scientific degree

Job description

Mercor partners with a leading AI lab to evaluate frontier models on high-quality patent reasoning data. We hire US patent attorneys with prosecution and/or litigation experience to review model-generated patent materials, judge quality, and annotate legal, technical, factual, and citation errors directly in the documents.

The role is an hourly engagement (~20 hours/week) open to candidates in the United States, with immediate start.