Lead Real Estate Attorney (AI Legal Engineer)

The role

You will turn commercial real estate expertise into logic that powers the Orbital AI platform. You will design, build, and refine workflows, knowledge bases, and evaluations by working with engineers and product managers.

What you will do

• Operate as a player/coach to drive client adoption and accelerate value.
• Automate commercial real estate workflows including acquisitions, leases, and title and survey review.
• Build domain-specific knowledge bases and decision trees.
• Develop automation blueprints for due diligence, lease reviews, and survey analysis.
• Research jurisdiction-specific nuances in US property law.
• Evaluate model outputs and use evaluations to continually improve them.
• Collaborate with AI and software engineers to design features.

Required qualifications

• A JD from a nationally accredited law school or equivalent qualification.
• At least 7 years of experience as a licensed attorney in private practice, as in-house counsel, advising sophisticated corporate clients, or 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 tech literacy and deep curiosity about how large language models can be applied to real estate law.
• Practical, solutions-oriented mindset and bias toward action.
• Clear communication skills.
• A resourceful, analytical approach to solving problems without a script.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift.
• The drive to change the real estate legal industry and build better, more efficient ways to get real estate deals done.

Nice to have

• Proven background leading, and mentoring teams within client service or delivery-focused roles.
• Cross-functional exposure across operations, product, business, or compliance.
• Client-facing experience via law firm business development or secondments.
• Practical familiarity leveraging artificial intelligence within legal workflows.
• Familiarity with LegalTech software.
• Experience managing teams that use AI tools.
• Experience with programming, no-code tools, or software integrations.

Benefits

• Salary range of $200,000 - $265,000 plus equity options and 401(k) match.
• $1,000 personal development budget.
• Professional equipment.
• 20 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and additional personal days.

Before you apply

• Everyone who works at Orbital goes through background screening before they start.

About the company

Orbital is the AI platform for real estate legal work. The company is a real estate transformation company using AI to fix how the world's largest asset class changes hands.