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Role Description

Join us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors! You'll leverage your software skills alongside nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology. You will work at the forefront of the nuclear industry, developing novel techniques to reach new levels of safety, efficiency, and resiliency. Come be a part of powering the future with advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.

Oklo is a fast-moving startup where you will be responsible for tackling a wide range of challenges in reactor design and analysis. A nuclear background is not required, but a healthy curiosity and eagerness to learn are essential in this role.

• Transform and optimize the storage of reactor data and physics results
• Design and configure CI/CD pipelines to perform multiphysics analyses
• Build tools for reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs and their physics
• Integrate simulation tools into our analyses pipelines
• Implement physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve performance of existing models
• Develop reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
• Identify and improve process-related inefficiencies in reactor design that can be addressed with software

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 0–2 years of professional software engineering experience (internships, co-ops, or significant projects are a plus)
• Fluency in Python
• Proficiency with Git
• Curiosity and passion for nuclear power, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and sustainable energy generation

Requirements

• Experience with CI/CD, preferably GitLab
• Experience with Rust
• Experience with Typescript/Javascript (especially Svelte)
• Experience with optimization, statistics, or design of experiments

Benefits

• $80,000-$115,000 compensation
• Flexible time off
• Equity
• Competitive pay
• 401k
• Health insurance
• FSA
• Flexible work hours
• Other benefits

Company Description

Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.