Real Estate Attorney (AI Legal Engineer)

Role Overview

You'll take your commercial real estate expertise and turn it into the logic that powers Orbital Copilot. Instead of manual doc review, you'll automate workflows for acquisitions, leases, and title analysis for AmLaw 100 and Magic Circle firms. You'll help us move an entire industry away from archaic processes by building AI that actually thinks like a real estate lawyer.

What You'll Be Doing

• Automate complex real estate legal workflows from initial concept to 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.
• Collaborate with AI and software engineers to design features that match how attorneys actually work.

The Impact You'll Have

Your work will directly reduce the reliance on busy lawyers checking documents and writing reports manually. By automating these tasks, you're helping professionals understand exactly what they're getting into before they ever incur legal fees. You'll be a credible voice in the room that helps the world's largest law firms understand and adopt AI.

Essential

• Licensed US attorney with commercial real estate experience.
• Experience with acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, or title and survey review.
• Ability to break down due diligence into structured, discrete tasks for automation.
• High level of tech literacy and curiosity about how technology supports legal work.
• Interest in how large language models can be applied to real estate law.
• Resourceful and analytical approach to solving problems without a script.

Desirable

• Familiarity with LegalTech software or managing teams using AI tools.
• Experience with programming, no-code tools, or software integrations.

What We Offer

• Salary range of $140,000 - $180,000 plus equity options and 401(k) match.
• Hybrid working pattern with some time spent in our New York office.
• $1,000 personal development budget and professional equipment.
• 20 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and additional personal days.
• The chance to fix the archaic processes that frustrated you in traditional practice.

Reasons We Might Not Be For You

• We have limited hand-holding and documentation gaps - you'll need to be comfortable figuring things out as you go.
• We move fast and sometimes discard high-quality work when a better approach emerges - this can be overwhelming if you prefer a predictable pace.

Security

Security is everyone’s responsibility at Orbital. We ask all team members to follow our security policies, complete regular awareness training, and handle sensitive data with care in line with ISO 27001 standards.

Spot Something Unusual?

Reporting risks or incidents quickly helps us maintain the strong culture of security and compliance we all depend on.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We especially welcome applications from people who are traditionally underrepresented in tech.