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title: 'Sr. Stimulation Chemist at MaverickX'
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# Sr. Stimulation Chemist at MaverickX

- **Company:** MaverickX
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/maverickx/8033bb52-9ed3-4f05-8fad-069dcfcccd30

## 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 Senior Stimulation Chemist to own the chemistry behind our flagship oilfield product, PetroX Boost. PetroX Boost is a biochemical treatment that selectively alters mineral phases in unconventional reservoirs, with the objective of enhanced oil production. You will own the chemical performance of PetroX Boost, including reaction with target minerals, spent-fluid behavior, and downhole compatibility. You will define and interpret the laboratory program behind each treatment, and you will translate the chemistry into constraints and recommendations that shape how the fluid is blended and pumped.

## Responsibilities

- Reaction Chemistry: Characterize how the fluid reacts with target mineral phases; dissolution behavior, reaction kinetics, and the chemistry of penetration and spending. Define what the chemistry implies for treatment sizing and placement, and hand those constraints to treatment design.

- Spent-Fluid & Precipitation Behavior: Own the chemistry of spent-fluid behavior, including precipitation risk, secondary reactions, and formation-damage potential.

- Compatibility: Validate compatibility with co-injected fluids, production chemical programs, brines, and physical equipment. Define the conditions under which PetroX Boost is a viable treatment.

- Design Input: Provide the technical constraints for treatment designs, such as spending rate versus target depth, precipitation thresholds, and compatibility limits.

- Platform Chemistry: Support the technical evaluation of new oilfield applications for our platform as they emerge.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related field

- 10+ years of hands-on oilfield chemistry experience, with personal ownership of formulations and their performance

- Depth in one or more of: oilfield stimulation chemistry, acidizing chemistry, chelant/sequestrant chemistry, mineral dissolution, or aqueous inorganic chemistry

- Experience characterizing reaction kinetics and precipitation behavior in complex fluid systems

- Experience designing and interpreting laboratory testing, such as dissolution, compatibility, precipitation, corrosion

- 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

- End-to-end validation experience from bench to field deployment

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## Experience with bio-based chemistries

- Working familiarity with the Permian, Bakken, and Eagle Ford basins and their mineralogies

- Working familiarity with production chemical programs (scale and corrosion inhibitors, biocides, demulsifiers)

- Lab experience with a leading energy operator or service company

Additional Requirements

- Must be willing to work on-site in Austin, TX

- Willing to travel to 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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