Principal, Research and Technology Development - Chemistry & Chemical

Paraffin and Asphaltene Principal Scientist – Upstream Chemicals  Are you passionate about developing innovative chemical solutions to solve complex flow assurance and organic solids challenges?

Do you thrive on combining scientific expertise, laboratory innovation, and customer engagement to deliver impactful production chemistry solutions?

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As a Paraffin and Asphaltene Principal Scientist, you will develop, evaluate, and advance chemical solutions for wax and asphaltene control while serving as a technical authority for product development and laboratory testing. This role requires strong customer-facing technical engagement, including listening to the voice of the customer, understanding production challenges, and translating customer needs into product performance requirements, testing strategies, and practical technology solutions.

The successful candidate will help drive customer satisfaction by connecting technical expertise, laboratory performance, and field-relevant recommendations to measurable customer outcomes. Fueling your passion

To be successful in this role, you will bring deep technical expertise in organic solids control, production chemistry, chemical formulation, and laboratory product evaluation, along with the ability to engage customers from a technical perspective. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on principal technical expert who can design experiments, understand mechanisms, develop products, improve test methods, listen to customer needs, and influence technology direction through strong scientific judgment and customer-focused technical performance.

As a Paraffin and Asphaltene Principal Scientist, you will be responsible for:

Leading paraffin and asphaltene product development from concept through formulation, screening, qualification, and commercialization support. Developing, improve, and standardize laboratory test methods for paraffin inhibitors, pour point depressants, asphaltene inhibitors, dispersants, solvents, and remediation chemistries. Designing and interpret rigorous laboratory studies that connect crude oil behavior, deposit characteristics, chemical structure, formulation design, and product performance. Serving as a principal technical authority for paraffin and asphaltene technologies, including testing strategy, performance interpretation, technical recommendations, and technology direction.

Engaging directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand production challenges, capture voice-of-customer needs, and translate feedback into product development priorities that improve customer satisfaction. Contributing to intellectual property, technical publications, internal reports, test procedures, knowledge transfer, and technical training for paraffin and asphaltene technologies. To be successful in this role you will have:

Have Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Materials Science, Polymer Science, or a related technical discipline with significant relevant experience in oilfield chemicals, organic solids control, product development, or laboratory testing. Demonstrates technical experience in paraffin/wax control, asphaltene control, organic deposition, crude oil characterization, or production chemical product development. Have experience developing, screening, qualifying, or improving paraffin inhibitors, pour point depressants, asphaltene inhibitors, asphaltene dispersants, or solvent/remediation products.

Have strong laboratory background, including experience designing experiments, developing test methods, interpreting results, and documenting technical conclusions. Have ability to connect crude oil behavior, deposit characteristics, chemical structure,…