- Salary
- $190k – $220k/yr
- Location
- D.C.
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Operations
- Clearance
- Required
- Source
- Lever
Description
Assistant General Counsel
SynMax, Inc. · Washington, D.C. (Hybrid) · Full-time
SynMax analyzes satellite imagery and independent data to find dark ships, count gas flares, track LNG cargoes, and predict when power plants and data centers will actually come online. We're a Delaware corporation headquartered in Houston, with an office in Washington, D.C. and a UK subsidiary. Our platforms - Theia (maritime), Hyperion (energy), Vulcan (infrastructure), and BasinIQ (agentic AI for upstream oil and gas) - serve U.S. Government and allied defense customers, commercial energy companies, and institutional trading firms.
You'll be the second attorney in a two-lawyer department: the newest lawyer, the most senior associate, and the entire junior staff, simultaneously. You'll own the commercial contracting pipeline day to day and support government contracting, export control, IP protection, and corporate matters, reporting directly to the General Counsel — who is direct, moves fast, expects concrete deliverables over open-ended questions, and considers a sense of humor a genuine job requirement.
A typical week:
- A trading firm proposes a liability cap so creative it deserves an art award. You counter with our standard position and an explanation of why it exists, and everyone stays friends.
- Sales needs a yes on a redline by end of day. You deliver a yes with three changes, in language the customer can actually accept, before lunch.
- You do the second read nobody else does, catch the cross-reference that quietly rewrote the indemnity, and feel like a genius. Because you are.
