Real Estate Attorney (Legal Engineer)

The role

Legal Engineers design, build, and refine workflows, knowledge bases, and evaluations to power an AI platform. You will translate commercial real estate expertise into logic to automate workflows for acquisitions, leases, and title analysis.

What you will do

• 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 that match how attorneys work.

Required qualifications

• A 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 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.
• 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

• 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 via law firm business development or secondments
• Practical familiarity leveraging artificial intelligence within legal workflows

Benefits

• 401(k) Plan: Match 100% of contribution up to 4% of salary.
• 20 days of vacation per year, plus additional personal days.
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plan.
• $1,200 annual professional development stipend.
• Commuter Benefits.
• Late night office dinner and weekly team meals.

Before you apply

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

About the company

Orbital is the AI platform for real estate legal work. The company is built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise.