Patent Engineer (M/F)

About the company

Within the Industrial Property Department of Saint-Gobain Innovation Hub Europe, you will support innovation teams and Group activities in identifying, protecting, and leveraging their innovations. You will join a team of patent engineers working on high technological value projects in the fields of materials and construction chemistry, as well as solutions for sustainable construction.

Your tasks

• You will take charge, independently or with the support of consulting firms, of invention analysis, defining protection strategies, drafting patent applications, managing prosecution procedures, conducting patentability, freedom to operate, and risk studies, as well as oppositions before the EPO or INPI.
• You will intervene in the Group's innovation centers and technical sites, working in close relationship with inventors and contributing to their awareness and training regarding industrial property issues.
• You will provide your IP expertise to research and industrial projects, in alignment with the strategic roadmap of the activities.
• You will advise technical teams and participate in the development of the patent portfolios for the Group's activities.

Requirements

• Customer relationship and initiative mindset, ability to combine patent expertise, technological understanding, and business vision.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate with multiple stakeholders (scientists, industrialists, IP experts, decision-makers) in an international environment.
• Excellent analysis, synthesis, and writing skills, curiosity, autonomy, and rigor.
• Fluent English is essential; German is a plus.
• Engineering degree or higher university education specialized in the field of chemistry; skills in polymer chemistry are an asset.
• CEIPI degree and European Patent Attorney qualification.
• Significant experience (5 years or more) in a firm and/or an industrial patent department.

What we offer

• Innovative technologies serving sustainable construction.
• Strong proximity to the Group's research teams and expertise centers.
• Integration into a global network of industrial property professionals, fostering expertise sharing and international collaborations.
• A multicultural environment offering a diversity of interlocutors and promoting autonomy, responsibility, and professional development.
• A direct contribution to the protection and leveraging of Saint-Gobain's innovation.