Real Estate Attorney (AI Legal Engineer)

Orbital is the AI platform for real estate legal work.

Real estate shapes the world around us: our homes, our workplaces and our cultural landmarks. It’s the infrastructure that powers everyday life and is the world's largest asset class. Yet behind every single deal, real estate and legal teams work hard to navigate decades-old complexity; manually connecting documents, hidden obligations, geo-spatial context, and multiple parties into a path forward. We connect the legal and physical record, so that path is clearer than ever before. Our mission is to make real estate transactions faster, clearer, and less manual.

Here, you'll be part of changing how the deals behind the largest asset class get transacted, and will help shape the future of real estate.

A bit about us:

🚀 We’re building at the forefront of AI technology, without losing the deeply human expertise our clients depend on.

🏢 Orbital is built with former practising real estate lawyers and 250+ years of combined legal expertise. We're purpose-built for the complexity of real estate: accelerating due diligence, drafting and negotiation, and deal coordination with legal-grade precision.

💰 We've just raised a $60m Series B, led by Brighton Park Capital, to accelerate our global expansion – $75m raised to date.

🤝 We're trusted by 5,000+ real estate professionals, spanning UK Magic Circle and US Am Law 100 firms, to household names like M&S. Leading firms like BCLP, Orrick, Goodwin, Womble Bond Dickinson and Clifford Chance rely on Orbital to remove the busywork, freeing legal and real estate teams to focus on sharp judgment, standout client service, and closing deals faster.

💡 Working at Orbital means joining a bold, ambitious team, with the trust to take ownership and make a real impact from day one.

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. The opportunity is real - you'll have genuine influence over what we build and how we build it.

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.

What We're Looking For:

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.

We're Orbital. We are a real estate transformation company using AI to fix how the world's largest asset class changes hands. Our mission is to help people involved in property transactions understand what they're getting into before they incur legal fees. We're on course to process over 1 trillion tokens a year - building for where AI is going rather than just creating another generic chatbot.

The opportunity here is real. We're Series B funded and scaling from 100 to over 200 people in 2026 to disrupt a $multi-billion global market.

We truly believe in our product, but we're honest about the trade-offs - the intensity is real, priorities shift, and things break. We carry the weight together, and we need people who can figure things out - sometimes without a script.

We don't have a polished corporate playbook or perfect documentation yet. What we do have is a clear view of where we're going, the capital to get there, and a team that genuinely supports each other when things get difficult. We're building something we'll look back on as a defining chapter in our careers. It's what excites us. It's what energises us. It's what gets us out of bed in the morning.

🔒 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.

💡 At Orbital, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We especially welcome applications from people who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, or if the right role isn’t listed yet, we’d still love to hear from you.

💰 This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on several factors, which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and business requirements.

Everyone who works with Orbital goes through background screening before they start. It's part of how we keep Orbital secure, for the people who work here and for the client information we're trusted with.