IP Analyst

Job Description Summary

Join the New Ventures & Strategy Group to accelerate Grid Systems Integration (GSI) innovation. Help make GSI a best in class, IP driven organization. You will independently own IP intelligence, landscaping, FTO triage, and monetization scouting across electrical systems. Operating with a global lens, you’ll convert fast moving technical and market signals into patent strategy, licensing leads, standards opportunities, and clear recommendations for decision makers.
This role works in a matrix with senior team members (IP Lead Engineer, Lead IP Specialist, IP Counsel) and offers a defined growth path to support and progressively co lead high impact initiatives.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

1) AI‑led IP Strategy & Insights

• Exploit AI/ML-enabled tools for patent intelligence and portfolio management.
• Transform complex data into concise, actionable briefs for technical, legal, and business stakeholders.

2) Landscaping, Novelty & FTO

• Conduct prior-art searches to assess patentability of new ideas as well as comprehensive IP landscape analyses to identify potential risks and opportunities within the existing patent ecosystem.
• Deliver Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) assessments with risk heatmaps, claim charts, and design-around options.
• Perform targeted searches of prior art and niche literature to aid in patent oppositions and invalidations.
• Identify white spaces to guide systematic invention and targeted filings.
• Collaborate with the team to convert electrical systems innovations (e.g., Power electronics, Power Systems, HVDC & FACTS systems including control and protection, converter technologies, valves) into patentable assets and trade secrets.
• Assess patent portfolios for legal strength, market relevance, and technology impact; recommend filing, continuation, abandonment, or licensing actions.

3) Monetization & Cross‑Licensing

• Benchmark competitors and identify collaboration/licensing opportunities.
• Generate in-licensing and out-licensing leads; prepare target shortlists and value hypotheses (revenue, leverage, risk mitigation).
• Work with Business Development and the Lead IP Specialist to advance qualified opportunities from concept to term sheet.

4) Standards, SEPs & Advocacy

• Map portfolios to standards work items; pre‑screen for potential SEPs and assemble essentiality evidence packs with the IP Lead Engineer and counsel.
• Prepare data‑backed talking points for trade associations and policy engagement.

5) Portfolio Analytics & Governance

• Provide analytics for portfolio shaping (file/continue/abandon), pruning, and continuation strategies.
• Support patent drafting, prosecution, opposition, invalidation, and infringement processes with internal stakeholders and external counsel worldwide; coordinate filing strategies across jurisdictions.
• Track competitor IP; generate actionable insights for technology roadmaps and product strategies.
• Contribute to IP valuation, licensing structures (field‑of‑use, territory, royalty), and partnership deals aligned to GSI programs.
• Collaborate globally across time zones; facilitate workshops, invention disclosures, and IP training for engineering teams.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Power Electronics, Physics, or equivalent and preferably understanding of HVDC and FACTS products and technology.
• Experience as IP Engineer or Analyst and a good understanding of patent law, how to read, understand, search for, and identify relevant patents.
• Proficiency with patent/intel tools (IPO/WIPO, Derwent, Questel, Patsnap, Espacenet, Google Patents), and BI/analytics (e.g., Excel/Power BI; basics of SQL/Python are a plus).
• Knowledge and structured learning around novel tools for IP (ie AI) would be a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to craft clear, concise briefs for technical, legal, and commercial audiences.
• Familiarity with FTO methods, IP landscaping, and competitive intelligence.
• Demonstrated experience in IP strategy, patent analysis/landscaping, or technology commercialization in the energy/grid/automation domain.
• Proven ability to interpret claims and complex technical disclosures; proficiency with IP databases and tools.

Preferred (India‑relevant) - Registered Indian Patent Agent is a plus (not mandatory).

Desired Characteristics

• Systems thinker with strong analytical rigor and curiosity.
• Organized, self‑directed, and comfortable prioritizing in a multi‑time‑zone environment.
• Collaborative communicator who can support and progressively co‑lead workstreams with senior IP leaders.
• High integrity regarding confidentiality, data protection, and compliance.
• Knowledge of global IP systems/patent law fundamentals;

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