Senior Patent Engineer

Soitec is a company listed on the SBF 120 index that operates upstream of the microelectronics value chain. Our innovative semiconductor materials are essential to the operation of smartphones and the deployment of 5G. They also offer numerous opportunities for connected automobiles, electric and autonomous vehicles and embedded intelligence in connected objects.

This position gives us an incredible responsibility, which inspires us every day: to make possible the massive adoption of technological innovations while considerably limiting their environmental impact, in a spirit of responsible innovation and sustainable development.

When we write on our website “we invest on average 12% of our annual turnover in R&D and have a portfolio of more than 4,200 patents” you begin to measure the importance of Industrial Property (IP) in a company like ours.

To support our growth, we must strengthen our industrial protections and for this William, our IP Director, wishes to strengthen his team with a new Senior Patent Engineer who, with the other patent engineers of the IP team and the IP assistants, will work daily with our 200 inventors.

Within this multidisciplinary team, you have full responsibility for one or more patent portfolios in which you manage your files with complete autonomy: from the analysis of invention submissions to the drafting of patents, the processing of deposits and the management of examination procedures with IP offices in different countries directly or through our patent firms. You are also responsible for reviewing and enhancing this portfolio or participating in the management of potential disputes relating to it, all in close collaboration with management and the Businesses concerned.

In this job, you will deal with various topics of Industrial Property beyond the protection of inventions on our products of tomorrow, in particular by participating with the Legal Department in the drafting of IP contracts (licenses, co-ownerships, assignments, R&D agreements, NDAs), but also by carrying out studies of freedoms of exploitation, legal opinions, opposition procedures or by participating in the monitoring of competing patents.

Our team is structured at the pace of Soitec’s growth and this position addresses the functions of deputy director of IP or manager of part of the team.

For this position and to complement existing skills, you will need a CEIPI (Certificate of Excellence in Patents and Trademarks) qualification and a technical specialization in microelectronics and semiconductor materials or materials physics.
You have at least 15 years of experience as a Patent Engineer, with prior technical experience in microelectronics or materials physics. You can also come from another industrial environment or an IP firm, provided you are interested in discovering our products and technologies.

–  This position is identified as a “sensitive position” and requires specific controls to meet the ZRR (Restricted Regime Zone) framework to which it is subject.