Senior Stimulation Engineer

MaverickX • Austin, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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