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Senior Counsel, Real Estate

Oklo· Legal
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full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Real Estate Counsel at Oklo to lead real estate transactions, title and survey diligence, and outside counsel management for projects and facilities, with opportunities to support broader corporate and transactional work in a fast-growing, startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and execution of real estate transactions, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, options, easements, rights-of-way, licenses, access agreements, and other site-control instruments
  • Oversee title and survey diligence, including reviewing title commitments, exception documents, pro forma and final title policies, and ALTA/NSPS land title surveys
  • Drive real estate transactions from letter of intent through closing and post-closing, including diligence, deliverables, consents, recordable instruments, and ongoing obligations
  • Coordinate legal diligence relating to zoning, land use, entitlements, environmental conditions, site access, utilities, mineral rights, and other matters affecting the development and operation of project sites
  • Manage outside counsel across projects, including matter scoping, staffing, budgets, timelines, work product, and performance
  • Draft, review, and negotiate development agreements, construction agreements, estoppels, subordination and nondisturbance agreements, consents, assignments, and other agreements ancillary to the Company’s real estate projects
  • Provide practical legal research and advice across a wide range of business teams
  • Help mature legal practices and approach, including real estate diligence, transaction management, title and survey review, outside counsel management, portfolio-level tracking and compliance

Qualifications

  • A J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. state
  • 3-5 years of real estate transactional experience at a large law firm or in-house legal department
  • Experience independently leading complex acquisitions, dispositions, leases, easements, site-control arrangements, and related real estate closings
  • Significant hands-on experience reviewing title commitments, exception documents and ALTA/NSPS land title surveys and resolving title and survey issues
  • Experience advising cross-functional project teams on real estate diligence, transaction structures, risk allocation and closing requirements
  • Experience working at or supporting companies that build things (ideally complicated, heavily regulated things)
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage and prioritize multiple matters simultaneously

Skills

Required:Real estate transactions

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • bonuses
  • competitive pay
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance (with employer contribution)
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • wellness credits
  • other benefits
Last updated Sep 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. (Oklo) is developing advanced fission power plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, has performed successful prototypic fuel fabrication, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, developed the first advanced fission combined license application accepted and docketed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories. Oklo has been featured in Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and is featured in the Oliver Stone documentary Nuclear, among other features.

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