Patent Engineer

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You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.

We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

Join Sonova. Create sense.

In our R&D group, we develop hearing solutions and services for hearing impaired people and hearing care professionals in the form of hearing instruments, accessories, web services, mobile applications, and PC software.

In this role, you will work together with our experts and patent attorneys of the Patent and Design Rights team within the Research & Development department located in Stäfa.

• Support inventors and patent attorneys in creativity workshops, the preparation of invention disclosures, prior art searches, patent prosecution and maintenance decisions
• Oversee and manage Freedom-to-Operate investigations, including patent database (e.g. Anaqua, Espacenet) searches, screening of patent activities, and reviews of patent publications of competitors in the field of hearing systems
• Provide IP training to inventors, technical patent experts and business partners
• Provide first level support to internal users of the electronic patent management system
• Assist in administrative, organizational and accounting tasks of the Patent and Design Rights team

Your profile:

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Material Sciences and further education in Patent Engineering
• At least 3 years’ experience in the international patent law
• Proficiency in searching and retrieving of information from IP databases and registers
• Ability to distill and communicate complex technical and legal concepts clearly and succinctly
• Ability to identify, review and explain patent-related matters and to provide IP advice to internal clients
• Strong command in English (written and oral), and German language skills are a big advantage

Our offer:

We can offer you a new challenge, with interesting tasks and much more – including an open corporate culture, flat hierarchies, support for further training and development, opportunities to take on responsibility, an excellent range of foods, sports and cultural facilities, attractive employment conditions, and flexible working time models in various roles.
Employment level 80-100%. #LI-GR1

Gianni S. Raffi, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, is looking forward to receiving your complete application (cover letter, CV, references, and certificates) via our online job application platform.

For this vacancy only direct applications will be considered.

+41 58 928 01 01

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.