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# Director of Applications at MaverickX

- **Company:** MaverickX
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/maverickx/ba620381-ed5f-4444-aa7b-39b7c7bf0417

## Job description

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. The Team The Applications team 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. Beyond the current field program, the team evaluates new applications for our chemical platform across the oilfield.

## The Role

We are seeking a Director of Applications to lead the field implementation of our flagship oilfield product and to build the team and technology roadmap behind it. PetroX Boost is a biochemical treatment that selectively alters mineral phases in unconventional reservoirs, with the objective of enhanced oil production. We are currently planning field deployments with leading energy companies across America's most prominent shale basins. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will personally own lab-scale testing and validation, treatment plan design, field performance validation, product iteration, and the development of new applications for our platform, collaborating closely with the Growth and Bioprocess teams.

## Responsibilities

- Treatment Design and Trial Ownership: Own end-to-end treatment design for our field program: fluid volume and concentration, carrier fluid, injection rate, pressure limits, shut-in, and flowback strategy. Translate laboratory dose-response, reaction kinetics, mineralogy, coreflood results, fracture geometry, and treatment economics into documented field recommendations.

- Field Execution: Own the field deployment protocol, supervise treatments on location, interpret real-time data, and lead post-job evaluation.

- 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 determine which delivery mode fits each well and customer.

- Customer Engagement: Work with the Growth team to build and conduct field partnerships with operators, serving as the technical voice in key customer discussions.

- Formation Screening & Basin Expansion: Build the screening criteria that determine which formations and basins PetroX Boost serves.

- Team Leadership: Lead the Applications team across stimulation chemistry, field engineering, and reservoir analysis. Set the technical agenda, develop the people, and own the function's results. Grow the team as the field program scales.

- Product Development: Lead the evaluation and development of new oilfield applications for our chemical platform.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field

- BS with 15+ or MS with 10+ years in stimulation, completions, or production enhancement, with personal end-to-end ownership of treatment designs and their outcomes

- Direct, hands-on experience designing and executing stimulation or acidizing treatments across multiple basins

- Technical depth in matrix acidizing, reaction kinetics, placement and diversion, and precipitation and formation damage

- Experience specifying or interpreting coreflood and rock-fluid interaction testing

- Demonstrated ability to design for novel fluid systems where field history and offset data do not yet exist

- Experience leading, building or mentoring technical teams, or clear readiness to lead and build one

- Credible as the most senior technical voice with operators, both technical and executive

- 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

- Prior leadership of an applications, technical services, or field-technical organization in oilfield chemistry

- Direct experience in the Permian, Bakken, and Eagle Ford basins

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## Experience with bio-based chemistries

- Experience with both standalone treatments and stimulation integrated into completions

- Working familiarity with production chemical programs 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

- Physical requirements: lifting up to 50 lbs, reaching over head, bending, standing/on feet for long periods of time

- General occupational health requirements: BSL2 lab operation guidelines

- Strong skills in technical communication, writing and reporting to various audiences (technical and nontechnical backgrounds); ability to work well on a team and with coworkers of various scientific capabilities and backgrounds; ability to work independently

## 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 their domain, and take full accountability for the outcomes of their 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 Maverick 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 Maverick X, 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

## About MaverickX

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MaverickX develops advanced specialty chemicals that unlock oil, critical metals, and water from existing oilfield and mining infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator S22, total raised $54.81M)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Eric Herrera (CEO) and Jesse Evans (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Oil & Gas, Mining, Critical Minerals / Rare Earth Elements, Chemical Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2B – oil and gas operators, mining companies, industrial refineries; primarily enterprise-level operators in North America
- **Mission/purpose**: To unlock more oil and higher-value metals from existing wells cheaper, faster, and safer than legacy treatments, supporting global resource security and sustainability.

## Products & Services
- **PetroX™**: Specialty chemical solution for oil & gas wells that removes scale, paraffin, and iron, increases shale porosity up to 40x, and can liberate 50%+ more hydrocarbons. Reduces operating costs and downtime.
- **LithX™**: Chemistry for extracting lithium and other critical metals from low-grade ores and brine streams.
- **HydroX™**: Solution for treating produced water and recovering clean water alongside metals and oil.

All three are chemical formulations (not hardware or SaaS) deployed directly into client operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $54.81M (latest round: $7.5M unattributed VC, ~Q2 2026); earlier seed round of $19M led by Olive Tree Capital
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Olive Tree Capital (lead), Y Combinator, Chord Energy (strategic investment)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Rebranded from Maverick Labs to MaverickX in January 2026, unifying oil & gas and metals divisions
  - Opened a 10,000 sq ft chemical production facility in Pleasanton, TX (reached capacity milestone)
  - Multiple major operators under contract for PetroX™
  - Headcount grew from ~30 to 29 (LinkedIn) with +3.8% monthly growth; 5 active job postings
  - Department of Energy contract to extract metals from old oil wells

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary chemistry**: Novel reaction pathways that increase shale porosity by up to 40x, enabling oil to flow where it previously couldn’t – not just swapping chemicals but rewriting reservoir physics.
- **Multi-commodity extraction**: Ability to co-produce oil, critical metals (REEs, gold, copper), and clean water from the same wells and infrastructure, turning stranded streams into high-value barrels and concentrates.
- **Non-toxic, safer chemistry**: Differentiated from legacy treatments that are hazardous; complies with ESG mandates and lowers operating costs.
- **First-mover in “mine old wells”**: Contracted by the Department of Energy to extract metals from legacy wells, giving unique expertise and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale PetroX™ deployment**: Expanding contracts with major operators in South Texas and beyond.
- **Cross-industry growth**: Leveraging unified brand (MaverickX) to serve oil & gas, mining, and industrial sectors with integrated chemical solutions.
- **Production capacity**: Scaling manufacturing at the Pleasanton facility to meet growing demand.
- **Resource security narrative**: Tapping into the $100B+ market for critical minerals from existing oil and gas infrastructure, essential for EVs, tech, and national security.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, mission-driven startup (team ~30) with a “maverick” spirit – high autonomy, direct impact, and cutting-edge chemistry.
- **Work model**: On-site in Austin, TX (all current job listings are on-site). No remote/hybrid mentioned.
- **Engineering culture**: Hands-on chemistry and process engineering; work spans from lab to field deployment. Tech stack includes Python, SQL, Tableau, and automation tools.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage company with strong investor backing, rapid revenue growth, and expansion into new verticals – chance to shape processes and take on broad responsibilities.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed, but YC startup environment often includes equity, flexible PTO, and a tight-knit team.

## Sources
1. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/maverickx)
2. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/maverickx-company)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/maverick-bioworks)
4. [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/13/3217830/0/en/Maverick-Labs-Becomes-MaverickX-Unlocking-Oil-Metals-and-Water-from-Existing-Oilfields-and-Waste.html)
5. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/maverickx)

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