The Company
MaverickX is revitalizing critical resource extraction with precision biologics. We are a team of scientists, engineers, and business operators who are bringing cutting-edge biotechnology products to the world’s most critical industries.
The Team
Applications owns the testing and performance validation of our chemistry, responsible for both lab evaluation and field execution. It is a small, cross-disciplinary group that works directly with technical operators to deploy, prove, and iterate on our solutions, delivering world-class products to our customers. Beyond the current field program, the team evaluates new applications for our chemical platform across the oilfield.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced, high-agency Senior Stimulation Engineer to own the field implementation of our flagship oilfield product. PetroX Boost is a biochemical chelator designed to break down silicates, unlocking trapped oil and boosting production rates. Its closest commercial analogs are matrix acidizing (HCl/HF) and chelant stimulation (GLDA, HEDTA). We are currently planning small- and large-scale field deployments with the world’s leading energy companies across the Permian, Bakken, Eagle Ford, and more.
You will be the senior technical voice for how our technology is deployed downhole: owning treatment design and post-job evaluation, defining and interpreting the laboratory program behind each treatment, and being on location when the fluid is pumped. This is a hands-on role on a growing team. You will establish the methods, screening criteria, and design standards for our PetroX Boost offering. You will report to our Chief Scientist and partner closely with our chemistry team.
Responsibilities
- Treatment Design: Own end-to-end treatment design, including fluid volume and concentration, carrier fluid selection, injection rate, and pressure limits below fracture gradient
- Reaction Engineering: Characterize reaction kinetics and penetration depth to determine treatment sizing, and manage precipitation and formation-damage risk in spent-fluid behavior
- Placement & Diversion: Design placement and diversion strategies that achieve coverage across the full treated interval, for both standalone (e.g., bullhead) and frac-integrated deployment, and help determine which delivery mode fits each well and customer
- Laboratory Program: Specify and interpret core flood testing on target-formation rock to quantify permeability improvement; direct dissolution-kinetics, mineralogy characterization, brine-compatibility, and precipitation testing in partnership with our chemistry team
- Field Execution: Own the field deployment protocol, supervise treatments on location, interpret real-time pressure response to confirm placement, and lead post-job evaluation including flowback chemistry (dissolved Al, Si, Fe)
- Formation Screening: Build the screening criteria that determine which formations and basins PetroX Boost serves, enabling expansion across basins and mineralogies
- Customer Engagement: Serve as the senior technical authority with operators’ engineering teams, articulating the case for PetroX Boost relative to conventional acid and chelant systems
- Platform Development: Support evaluation of additional oilfield applications for our chemical platform as they emerge
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field; advanced degree welcome but not required
- 8+ years of hands-on stimulation or acidizing experience, with personal end-to-end ownership of treatment designs and their outcomes
- Production enhancement experience across multiple basins
- Technical depth in matrix acidizing, reaction kinetics, placement and diversion, and precipitation and formation damage
- Experience specifying or interpreting core flood and rock-fluid interaction testing
- Demonstrated ability to design for novel fluid systems where field history and offset data do not yet exist
- Comfortable as the most senior technical voice with operators, for both technical buyers and executive decision makers
- Bias toward action and strong ownership; comfortable without a corporate playbook
- Strong desire to meaningfully contribute to American dynamism and the global resource supply chain
Preferred Qualifications
- Formal chemistry training alongside a stimulation engineering career
- Direct experience in the Permian, Bakken, and Eagle Ford basins
- Experience with bio-based chemistries
- Experience with both standalone treatments and stimulation integrated into completions
- Working familiarity with production chemical programs (scale and corrosion inhibitors, biocides, demulsifiers) and how stimulation fluids interact with them
- Operator and service company experience
Additional Requirements
- Must be willing to work on-site in Austin, TX
- Willing to travel to customer offices, field sites, other MaverickX facilities, and industry events, as needed
- Willing to work extended hours, as needed
Our Values
- Customer First: Our first and foremost priority is to give customers technology that makes their business more valuable. There is no deviation from this north star
- Play to Win: This is a professional team, not a family. Hardcore work ethic is a baseline; measurable impact is how we define success
- Extreme Ownership: We are self-starters who learn voraciously, master our domain, and take full accountability for the outcomes of our work
- Relentless Execution: A good idea is meaningless until it is solving a customer problem. Moving with speed, focus, and determination is how we win in our industry
- Radical Candor: Focused, direct, and impactful communication is our language. No time for beating around the bush
- Shared Success: Meaningful equity participation for employees means that when MaverickX wins, everyone wins
- Uncompromised Integrity: We do first-class business in a first-class way, while staying loyal to our customers, shareholders, employees, and country
Benefits
- At MaverickX, our compensation packages reflect our recognition of the value our employees bring to our success and our commitment to recruiting top talent. We cater our benefits to ensure our team succeeds both in and out of the office
- Premium health insurance: With medical, dental, and optical options, we offer some of the best coverage on the market
- Continuing education: We take employee development seriously and strive to unlock our team’s full potential through continuous learning initiatives