Real Estate Attorney (Legal Engineer)
About The Position
Orbital is hiring a Real Estate Attorney for its Legal Engineering team. Legal Engineers translate real estate legal expertise into workflows, knowledge bases, and evaluations that power Orbital’s AI platform. The role involves working alongside AI and software engineers, product managers, and designers to build AI workflows that reflect how real estate lawyers work and provide reliable outputs to clients. The successful candidate will apply commercial real estate expertise to automate legal workflows across acquisitions, leases, and title and survey analysis for Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms. The role offers influence over product direction and implementation, and contributes to making real estate transactions faster, clearer, and less manual. Orbital describes itself as an AI platform for real estate legal work, trusted by more than 5,000 real estate professionals. The company has raised $75 million to date, including a $60 million Series B. Team members are expected to follow security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data in line with ISO 27001 standards. Background screening is required before starting.
Requirements
- JD from a nationally accredited law school or equivalent qualification.
- At least 2 years of experience as a licensed attorney in commercial real estate.
- At least 2 years as in-house counsel, advising sophisticated corporate clients, or in a similar role.
- Hands-on experience with acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and/or title and survey review.
- Ability to break down due diligence and other real estate legal work into structured, discrete tasks that can be automated.
- High level of technology literacy and deep curiosity about applying large language models to real estate law, along with a practical, solutions-oriented mindset and bias toward action.
- Clear communication skills, including explaining legal context to engineers and product managers who are not lawyers and engaging credibly with attorneys at leading firms.
- Resourceful, analytical approach to solving problems without a script and comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift.
- Drive to change the real estate legal industry and build more efficient ways to complete real estate deals.
- Complete background screening before starting.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with LegalTech software.
- Experience managing teams that use AI tools.
- Experience with programming, no-code tools, or software integrations.
- Cross-functional exposure across operations, product, business, or compliance.
- Client-facing experience through law firm business development or secondments.
- Practical familiarity with leveraging artificial intelligence within legal workflows.
Responsibilities
- Work with AI and software engineers to take commercial real estate workflows—including acquisitions, leases, and title and survey review—from initial concept through successful implementation.
- Build domain-specific knowledge bases and decision trees that translate legal processes into AI workflows.
- Develop automation blueprints for due diligence, lease reviews, and survey analysis.
- Research jurisdiction-specific nuances in US property law to ensure product accuracy.
- Evaluate model outputs and use those evaluations to continually improve them.
- Collaborate with AI and software engineers to design features that match how attorneys work.
- Follow company security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with 100% matching of contributions up to 4% of salary.
- 20 days of vacation per year, plus additional personal days as detailed in the internal handbook.
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- $1,200 annual professional development stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for eligible commuting expenses.
- Late-night office dinner and weekly team meals.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
