Legal Counsel, Real Estate & Construction

The role

This role acts as a legal expert for real estate, construction, and environmental teams. You will drive contracts, transactions, and permits to ensure facilities are delivered on schedule and in compliance with law.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate construction, service, design, purchase, lease, and license agreements.
• Support transactional life cycles including due diligence, title, survey, and zoning.
• Provide legal advice to real estate, design, construction, and environmental health and safety teams.
• Maintain and improve contract templates and playbooks.
• Provide guidance to executives on contract interpretation, change orders, and schedule impacts.
• Manage outside counsel regarding scope, budget, and execution.

Required qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from a top-tier accredited law school.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience practicing construction and real estate law.
• Experience representing owners, developers, or sophisticated tenants in commercial, industrial, or high-tech projects.
• Active membership in good standing with the bar in at least one U.S. state.
• Ability to become authorized to practice in California.
• Expertise in drafting and negotiating AIA document families and ConsensusDocs.
• Understanding of construction project delivery methods like Design-Build and GMP.
• Ability to manage a large portfolio of concurrent matters in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to provide pragmatic legal advice to executive leadership.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Willing and able to work in Costa Mesa, California or Washington D.C. office full-time.
• Must be a U.S. Person.

Nice to have

• Prior in-house legal experience within a real estate development firm, capital expenditure company, or technology/manufacturing company.
• Experience with government construction contracting regulations.
• Knowledge of environmental laws, zoning, and land use regulations.
• Experience establishing templates, playbooks and processes from scratch.
• Familiarity with prevailing wage requirements, Davis-Bacon Act compliance, or labor regulations.
• Experience with construction dispute resolution.
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, or a related technical field.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.