Legal Engineer, Orbital

• Are you excited to help shape the future of legal technology?
• You’re a Scottish qualified solicitor with experience in commercial real estate, including areas such as acquisitions, disposals, leasing, development, or real estate finance
• Ideally, you have 5+ years PQE, but we’re very open to strong candidates with less experience who show the right mindset
• You can deconstruct legal work into clear, logical steps that could be followed by a machine or automated process
• You’re highly tech-literate, curious, and comfortable learning new tools quickly
• You’re genuinely interested in AI, large language models, and LegalTech, and how they can be applied to improve legal practice
• You may not have done a role like this before (almost no one has!) — but you’re analytical, adaptable, and excited by building something new
• 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

Desirable

• As a Legal Engineer at Orbital, you’ll play a critical role in building our AI-powered legal assistant, Orbital Copilot, a product designed to transform how commercial real estate law is practiced
• Take ownership of automating specific UK commercial real estate legal workflows, from early concept through to production use, with a focus on building out and optimising our offerings in Scotland.
• You’ll work in a fast-moving, highly collaborative team of lawyers, Legal Engineers, product managers, and software engineers, where your legal expertise directly shapes what we build
• Our team values rapid execution, close collaboration, and practical impact. You’ll help build domain-specific knowledge bases, workflows, and decision trees, translating real-world legal processes into AI-powered systems
• You’ll also contribute to templates and automation blueprints covering core Scottish (and preferably also English and Welsh) real estate work, such as:
• Drafting and negotiation of property documents
• Due diligence for acquisitions
• Commercial lease reports
• Development and real estate finance workflows
• Title review and property reporting, including interaction with HM Land Registry and Registers of Scotland
• Managing differences in title structure, searches, and reporting across UK jurisdictions, with a focus on Scotland
• From analysing jurisdiction-specific nuances in Scots (and preferably also English and Welsh) property law, including the UK’s dual land registration systems, to helping design features that reflect how real estate lawyers actually work, your input will directly influence how Orbital Copilot is used in practice
• Once embedded, you’ll be expected to make meaningful contributions to the success of our products. It’s a challenging role, but a highly rewarding one, as we redefine how commercial real estate transactions are delivered in the UK and beyond
• Translate commercial real estate legal work into structured, repeatable workflows that AI systems can understand and execute
• Break down complex legal tasks (e.g. drafting, due diligence, lease analysis, title review) into discrete steps, rules, and decision logic
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to design, test, and refine AI-driven legal features
• Review and improve AI outputs to ensure legal accuracy, clarity, and usefulness for practising lawyers
• Help define best-in-class legal standards for AI-assisted commercial real estate work
• Stay close to real-world legal practice, ensuring products reflect how lawyers actually work, not how workflows look in theory