German Patent Linguist
WelocalizePosted 6/16/2025
German Patent Linguist
Welocalize
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Job Summary
Welocalize is seeking a German Patent Linguist to translate complex patent/legal materials from English into German with high accuracy and quality. The role involves working closely with Quality, Program Squads, Talent, vendors, and stakeholders to provide precise language support for patent-related matters. As a native German speaker and fluent in English, the ideal candidate will have 3+ years of linguistic experience on English-German and German-English patent translation. They should be self-motivating, able to take ownership, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment. The position requires knowledge of European Patent Convention patent law, CAT tools, QA tools, and the language services industry. Welocalize offers flexible remote work options, competitive salary, and equity in a growing company.
Job Description
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The German Patent Linguist is a critical position that requires a strong background in translation and interpretation, with a focus on patent/legal documents. This professional is responsible for translating, postediting or reviewing complex patent/legal materials from English into German, ensuring the highest quality and accuracy of the deliverables to client. This role works closely with Quality, Program Squads, Talent, vendors and other stakeholders to provide precise language support for patent-related matters.
This professional ensures that the expected level of translation quality is maintained, and the product delivered to the client should always meet its intended purpose, while closely monitoring that translation expenses remain within budget.
The German Patent Linguist understands legal requirements and engages the production team in the fulfillment of these requirements, crafting client solutions based on the Welocalize Four Pillars of Customer Service, Quality, Innovation and Global Teamwork.
Main Duties
- Perform English into German or German into English patent review tasks as required and monitor resources’ performance.
- Work with Quality and Squads to plan and perform LQAs, and drive the arbitration process.
- Maintain and update linguistic assets, such as German glossary and translation memories.
- Monitor translation spend closely and ensure that it stays within budget.
- Support Quality team in reviewing IRB forms and in conducting RCAs for legal translation and be responsible for client inquiries.
- Provide support to onboard new German legal suppliers when applicable.
- Respond to any queries from German suppliers related to legal production.
- Engage in business review meetings with German resources as well as take the lead on linguistic issues.
- Assist in creating and updating style guides for English into German or German into English.
- Support the assessment team regarding new German legal resources across all content specialties.
- Recommend German legal resources to Squads, based on data concerning quality, OTD, language strategy, capacity needs, content specialty, or client specific requirements.
- Conduct monthly capacity planning for German legal resources making sure that the adequate resources are in place to support production.
Requirements
- 3+ years of linguistic experience on English into German and German into English patent translation.
- Minimum of BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
- A good understanding of Machine Translation (MT)
- Must be a native German speaker and fluent in English.
- Knowledge of European Patent Convention patent law.
- Familiarity with diverse CAT tools and QA tools.
- Knowledge of the language services industry and a keen interest in its technology, process, competitive landscape, and emerging trends.
- A technical background is a plus, such as backgrounds in electricity and chemistry.
Key Competencies
- Self-motivating with ability to take ownership.
- Actively drives performance and delivers results.
- Proactively develops clear solutions to moderately complex problems.
- Understands the importance of Objective & Key Results (OKRs) and is results oriented.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, and deadline-driven work environment.
- A problem-solving mindset that can proactively assess and mitigate risks.
- Ability to work within a team, contributing to the team's success, or working independently as needed.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
