# Director of Applications at MaverickX

- Company: MaverickX
- What the company does: Breakthrough chemical solutions across oil & gas, mining & metals, and water treatment. More oil. More metals. Smarter chemistry. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.MaverickX.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-09
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/maverickx/ba620381-ed5f-4444-aa7b-39b7c7bf0417
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/maverickx-director-of-applications/

## About 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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Applications