EBay - Patent Drafting Attorney Role

About the team and the role:

The Patents & Open Source team at eBay protects our innovation through a global IP portfolio. You will help scale an AI-assisted drafting program to capture high-impact inventions across AI/ML, marketplace experiences, trust, and seller success. This role is based in Bengaluru, India with hybrid work and cross-time-zone collaboration across APAC, EU, and US.

What you will accomplish:

• Draft or equivalent experience in preparing high-quality patent applications using AI-assisted drafting tools, translating complex technical solutions into clear, defensible claims.
• Lead AI-enabled prosecution tasks to secure meaningful protection.
• Implement timely engineering, pattern libraries, and document pipelines for AI drafting.
• Partner with the IPSC process to evaluate invention disclosures.
• Coordinate a global filing strategy for business-critical inventions.
• Educate inventors and product/tech teams on AI-enabled patentability assessments.

What you will bring:

• Significant experience drafting and prosecuting software/AI/e-commerce patents.
• Technical background with 4 - 8 years of solid technical and legal experience in drafting patent applications across software, AI, and e-commerce domains and managing patent portfolios.
• Proficiency with AI drafting workflows and modern patent tools.
• Strong written advocacy, strategic prosecution judgment, and docket ownership.
• Collaborative, inclusive communicator comfortable in a hybrid, cross-time-zone environment.
• High integrity, sound legal judgment, and dedication to confidentiality and continuous improvement in AI-enabled processes.