Senior Stimulation Engineer

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.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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…