Senior Computational Geomechanics Scientist - On-Site in Houston

✦✦✦ Quest Energy Group ✦✦✦; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Energy Group in Houston seeks a Senior Computational Geomechanics Scientist to advance the numerical engine of a hydraulic-fracture simulator. You will develop, validate, and modernize the physics-based code, translating complex fracture mechanics into reliable software for challenging field problems.

PhD-level scientist with 5+ years of industry experience will contribute to performance, accuracy, and scalability while collaborating with a small expert team within an established

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in computational mechanics, geomechanics, mechanical or civil engineering, petroleum engineering, or related field.
• Five+ years of industry experience developing/validating FEM or numerical methods for hydraulic-fracture simulation.
• Strong knowledge of geomechanics, fracture mechanics, and finite-element methods.
• Experience modeling hydraulic-fracture initiation, propagation, and interaction.
• Ability to translate math and physics into reliable simulation code.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve numerical formulations for coupled fluid flow, rock deformation, fracture opening, height growth, and propagation.
• Advance models for interacting fractures including stress shadowing and well-to-well interference.
• Maintain and modernize the simulation codebase with emphasis on accuracy and reliability.
• Improve solver performance, convergence, and memory efficiency.
• Build verification, validation, benchmarking, and regression-testing workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering and software teams to translate research into commercially supported simulation capabilities.

Skills

FEM coding

Geomechanics

Fracture mechanics

Parallel computing

Scientific programming

Education

PhD in computational mechanics

Tools

C++

Fortran

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Quest Energy Group in Houston seeks a Senior Computational Geomechanics Scientist to advance the numerical engine of a hydraulic-fracture simulator. You will develop, validate, and modernize the physics-based code, translating complex fracture mechanics into reliable software for challenging field problems.

PhD-level scientist with 5+ years of industry experience will contribute to performance, accuracy, and scalability while collaborating with a small expert team within an established