Senior Stimulation Engineer
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