Real Estate Attorney, Orbital
AI Legal Engineer
$200-265k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
Open for applications
AI LegalTech for Real Estate
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$200-265k
+ Equity
1-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make property transactions radically more transparent, quick and easy to transact.
Role
Who you are
- 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, paired with a practical, solutions-oriented mindset and bias toward action
- Clear communication skills — comfortable explaining legal context to engineers and product managers who aren't lawyers, and engaging credibly with attorneys at leading firms
- A resourceful, analytical approach to solving problems without a script, and 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
Desirable
- 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; and practical familiarity leveraging artificial intelligence within legal workflows
- Familiarity with LegalTech software, experience managing teams that use AI tools, and/or experience with programming, no-code tools, or software integrations are all pluses
What the job involves
- Orbital's Legal Engineering team is composed of former practicing real estate lawyers who turn legal expertise into the logic that powers Orbital
- Legal Engineers design, build, and refine the workflows, knowledge bases, and evaluations behind our product, working side by side with AI and software engineers, product managers, and designers
- They translate real legal work into AI that thinks like a real estate lawyer, serving as the legal trust layer behind every output our customers rely on
- You'll take your commercial real estate expertise and turn it into the logic that powers Orbital
- Instead of manual doc review, you'll automate workflows covering the full spectrum of RE legal work 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 and performs like a real estate lawyer
- The opportunity is real - you'll have genuine influence over what we build and how we build it
- Operate as a player/coach. Combine deep legal expertise, product insights, and team management to drive client adoption, accelerate value, and yield clear, impactful results for law firms, commercial real estate companies, and other industry leaders
- Working closely with AI and software engineers, take commercial real estate workflows — acquisitions, leases, and title and survey review — and automate them from initial concept to successful implementation for Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms
- 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
- Evaluate model outputs and use those evaluations to continually them
- Collaborate with AI and software engineers to design features that match how attorneys actually work
Our take
Legal reasoning requires smart and experienced law professionals, and collating information and data takes up their valuable time. That's why Orbital has used foundational AI models to build an assistant for law professionals. The company builds SaaS solutions that transform how property professionals work by leveraging cutting-edge Generative AI and LLM technologies.
The company's products aggregate geospatial, property, and legal data from diverse sources to provide an unprecedented view of legal risk attached to properties. This provides real estate lawyers and property professionals with a one-stop-shop for property due diligence, allowing a vastly more transparent and efficient process whilst providing a better quality of service to clients.
Orbital's AI solutions are already used by thousands of lawyers and commercial property professionals across the UK and the US. It plans to grow its presence in the US and scale its team to achieve this objective. There is a huge opportunity to transform the way that property, the world's largest asset class, is transacted and bring it into the 21st century.
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Meet the team
7 people
Kieran Pattison, Senior Customer Success Manager
Our mission
To ensure clients love working with us and see maximum value from their investment. If our customers are successful, everyone wins.Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2026
$58m
SERIES B
May 2023
$9.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $73.9m
Company benefits
- 401(k) Plan - Match 100% of contribution up to 4% of salary
- Paid Time Off (PTO) - 20-days per year
- Sick Time off - 40 hours
- Health Insurance - Competitive medical, dental, and vision plan
- Professional Development - $1,200 stipend per year
- Commuter Benefits - Allocate pre-tax earnings to cover eligible commuting expenses
- In-Office Perks - Late night office dinner and weekly team meals
- Equity Participation - You will be granted stock options in a fast growing start-up!
Company values
- Question or Commit - Embrace debate and move forward
- Power to our People - Stubborn on vision, flexible on approach
- Bold and ambitious - Aim high, challenge the status quo
- Eat that frog! - Take on the hardest, most impactful work first
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
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Leadership
Edmond Boulle
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer)Prior to co-founding Orbital Witness, Ed worked with high growth startups in the UK aerospace industry. He qualified as a barrister with and holds a law degree from Oxford University.
Will Pearce
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Research Analyst - Space Team at London Economics for 4 months and Business Strategy Analyst at Satellite Applications Catapult for 2 years.
People progressing
Naomi joined as Office Manager with varied experience across ops and events. Quickly promoted to Ops Manager, then Chief of Staff, she ensures we have everything needed to reach our ambitious goals.
Aisha, ex-M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance, transitioned to sales at Tessian. At Orbital Witness since 2019, she was promoted to head of BD & CS, now CRO, driving business growth.
People breakdown
35%
65%
Female
Male
Last updated on 11 February 2025
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Orbital
Aisha Tummon (Chief Revenue Officer)
- We are proud to nurture a diverse team and inclusive, caring working environment.
- We value diversity of thought and particularly encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in tech.
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