Subsurface Engineer

Subsurface Engineer 

Vaulted Deep 

Location: Houston, TX 

About Vaulted 

Vaulted Deep is a cutting-edge technology company that injects waste deep underground to advance sustainability goals while providing waste management solutions to support clean land, air and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas.  

With a growing team of 50 people across the country, Vaulted signed a $58.3 million offtake agreement with Frontier, and completed a $32 million Series A round in 2024. Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions, now, at scale. 

About the Role 

At Vaulted, we have an aggressive development plan for new sites. The pace at which we can ramp up our Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) generation is directly tied to our ability to locate, permit, and develop new injection sites in different geographies. The Subsurface Engineer will play a pivotal role in collaborating with the identification, targeting, and permitting of new well sites both within the US and on the international front.  

As a Subsurface Engineer at Vaulted, your core responsibilities will include: 

• Permitting & Compliance: Provide engineering support for the permitting process for new injection sites, including data search, data storage, mapping, data integration, interpretation, and analysis. 
• Site Identification & Evaluation: Support the evaluation and selection of potential sites suitable for organic waste injection. Data analysis and evaluation. Power Point presentations required for communication of results to management, regulators and other stakeholders. 
• Data Analysis, Subsurface Modeling & Reporting: Collaborate and maintain subsurface databases, build petrophysical and geomechanical models to verify organic waste injection potential and safety and ensure its permanent containment. Provide regular reports to senior management for target locations. 
• Reservoir modeling: Develop analytical and numerical reservoir models and run simulations to simulate fluid dynamics within subsurface formations.  
• Collaboration with   entire Subsurface Team: Work closely with the engineering team to identify new locations, design and optimize injection wells, ensuring the safe and efficient sequestration of organic waste. 
• Research & Development: Stay updated with the latest advancements in subsurface engineering related to carbon sequestration technologies. 
• Safety Protocols: Ensure all activities adhere to the highest safety standards, minimizing risks to both the environment and personnel. 

This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced and rewarding environment where your contributions will directly lead to mitigating, and eventually reversing, the worst impacts of climate change.  

What You Will Bring 

To succeed in this role, and to help the company to succeed in our mission, the Subsurface Engineer will need, most of all, restlessness, drive, hustle, and a deep sense of urgency. They will need to be able to manage multiple threads at the same time, while delivering rapid results from an understaffed team, if for no other reason than the planet simply cannot wait. In addition, we seek a candidate with: 

• MS degree or higher in Petroleum Engineering, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience.  
• Injection wells permitting experience is preferred. 
• Strong skills in engineering software tools, databases and modeling applications. 
• Skills in Python and PowerBi a plus. 
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including geoscientists and environmental scientists. 
• Commitment to continual learning - staying updated with the latest advancements in the field of subsurface engineering and carbon sequestration.