Senior Stimulation Engineer

MaverickX • Austin, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

MaverickX is seeking an experienced, high-agency Senior Stimulation Engineer to own the field implementation of our flagship oilfield product, PetroX Boost. PetroX Boost is a biochemical chelator designed to break down silicates, unlocking trapped oil and boosting production rates. This role involves planning and executing small- and large-scale field deployments with leading energy companies. The engineer will be the senior technical authority for downhole deployment, responsible for treatment design, post-job evaluation, laboratory program interpretation, and on-site supervision during fluid pumping. This is a hands-on role focused on establishing methods, screening criteria, and design standards for the PetroX Boost offering. The position reports to the Chief Scientist and collaborates closely with the chemistry team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree welcome but not required.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end treatment design, including fluid volume and concentration, carrier fluid selection, injection rate, and pressure limits below fracture gradient.
• Characterize reaction kinetics and penetration depth to determine treatment sizing, and manage precipitation and formation-damage risk in spent-fluid behavior.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Build the screening criteria that determine which formations and basins PetroX Boost serves, enabling expansion across basins and mineralogies.
• Serve as the senior technical authority with operators’ engineering teams, articulating the case for PetroX Boost relative to conventional acid and chelant systems.
• Support evaluation of additional oilfield applications for our chemical platform as they emerge.

Benefits

• 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.
• Meaningful equity participation for employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior