SynMax is a forward-thinking geospatial data analytics company that transforms vast data landscapes into precise, actionable solutions for the maritime and energy sectors. Leveraging satellite…
SynMax is a forward-thinking geospatial data analytics company that transforms vast data landscapes into precise, actionable solutions for the maritime and energy sectors. Leveraging satellite…
Location: Houston, Texas (offices in New York and London)
Founded: 2021
Sector: Geospatial / satellite data analytics for maritime and energy
Key products: Hyperion, Vulcan, Theia, Leviaton
Employees: 79
Known funding: Seed; reported $6M from customers; total funding reported $19,000,000 (USD)
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Monitoring and extracting actionable intelligence from satellite imagery for maritime domain awareness, oil & gas production monitoring, LNG intelligence, and power/gas/coal market analysis.
Founded
2021
Industry
Defense and Space Manufacturing
Tech Stack
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Funding Track Record
Seed- 2022-12-05
6000000
TechCrunch reported $6M raised from customers to scale team and product development.
- 2024-01-03
19000000
Total funding amount reported in company snapshot.
Investor Signal
“Investors listed include Bill Perkins, Alex Moore, GeoSol Capital”
Founders
What we do
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Senior Agentic Developer
HybridHouston, TX, US
Hybrid • Houston, TX, US
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About SynMax:
Based in Houston, Texas, with offices in London and New York, SynMax is a pioneering data intelligence company specializing in maritime and energy intelligence. By integrating advanced satellite imagery and AI, SynMax delivers unparalleled insights into maritime operations, oil and gas development, coal inventory, and LNG flows, enabling businesses and organizations to make data-driven decisions with precision and confidence.
Job Description:
The Senior Agentic Developer will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling SynMax’s agentic AI capabilities across both customer-facing products and internal platforms.
This role focuses on developing intelligent, autonomous systems that help users interact with complex data, internal knowledge, and workflows in more powerful, intuitive ways. These systems will support both external customers and internal teams, enabling them to work more efficiently, make better decisions, and engage more effectively with SynMax’s products and knowledge base.
The successful candidate will help build the long-term agentic foundations of SynMax’s platform and product ecosystem.
This is a senior, hands-on engineering role combining deep technical development with systems thinking, product mindset, and cross-functional influence.
Role Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to:
Design and develop SynMax’s next-generation agentic AI capabilities.
Build scalable, reliable AI agents that interact with data, systems, and users across the product and internal landscape.
Support the responsible and thoughtful integration of agentic AI into how SynMax operates and delivers value to customers.
Help establish technical foundations, patterns, and evaluation frameworks for agentic systems across the company.
Key Responsibilities
Experience & Background
Significant experience as a software engineer, AI engineer, or applied machine learning developer
Hands-on experience building systems using large language models or intelligent automation
Experience scaling AI prototypes into production systems
Strong system architecture and distributed systems experience
Key Skills & Compentencies
Strong programming capability
Experience with LLM frameworks, agent orchestration, or multi-agent system design
Strong system design skills, including API and service architecture
Experience building reliable, observable, and scalable production systems
Ability to communicate complex systems clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable Experience
Experience working with multi-agent or autonomous systems
Experience integrating with tools such as Slack, GitHub, Jira, Notion, or similar platforms
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks and AI system quality measurement
Experience in data-intensive, geospatial, or analytics-focused environments
Equal Opportunity Statement:
SynMax is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Agentic System Design & Development
Design and build autonomous, agent-driven systems that interact with data, tools, and users across SynMax’s products and internal platforms
Develop intelligent workflows using LLMs, structured data sources, APIs, and internal services
Translate complex product or operational requirements into robust, scalable agentic architectures
Build agent systems that can reason, retrieve information, orchestrate tools, and present structured outputs to users
Customer-Facing Agentic Features
A core focus of the role is developing agentic capabilities that improve SynMax’s customer-facing products
Building agentic interfaces for interacting with complex geospatial and market intelligence
Enabling users to query, explore, and understand SynMax data through natural language and agent-driven workflows
Supporting product teams in embedding agentic capabilities into the platform and user experience
Internal Agentic Platforms & Knowledge Systems
Contributing to internal agentic platforms (e.g. knowledge agents, workflow assistants, internal support agents)
Integrating agentic systems with tools such as Slack, Jira, GitHub, Notion, HubSpot, and internal databases
Supporting internal productivity and knowledge access without creating dependence or risk
Ensuring these systems are reliable, explainable, and aligned with how teams naturally work
Evaluation, Reliability & Responsible AI
Designing evaluation approaches to track quality, reliability, and improvement over time
Implementing feedback loops, observation, and performance measurement for agent behaviour
Developing safeguards, guardrails, and auditing mechanisms to ensure responsible and safe usage
Ensuring systems enhance human decision-making rather than obscure or replace it
Support & Influence on No/Low-Code Agentic Tools
Support and guide teams using tools such as N8N, Agent Builder, or similar platforms
Help define standards, integration patterns, and best practices for these workflows
Bridge the gap between no-code experimentation and production-grade engineering systems
Enable others across SynMax to experiment safely and productively with agentic AI
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence
Product teams designing customer experiences and workflows
Data and platform engineers integrating AI with core infrastructure
Commercial and operations teams using internal agentic tools
Leadership and strategy teams shaping SynMax’s long-term use of AI