Instrumentation and Control Engineer - Fuel Recycling

About the role

The person in this role is responsible for designing, implementing, troubleshooting, scaling, and monitoring various instrumentation control systems for Oklo’s fuel recycling facility. It will include collaboration with cross-functional teams including those with a focus on facility design, unit process equipment design, and licensing.

Responsibilities

• Integrating design work across multi-disciplinary teams including process, controls, equipment and facility
• Defining system standards frameworks, design patterns for controls, and PLC/SCADA implementation across multiple systems
• Developing electronic process sensor systems, digital controllers, and network topology
• Preparing specifications for procurement of instrumentation and controls equipment as well as engineering calculations
• Developing intuitive dashboards, human-machine interfaces, and operator workflows that make complex facility systems easy to monitor and control
• Conducting system testing, simulation, and commissioning to validate architecture, functionally, and data accuracy
• Developing systems that meet facility and regulatory requirements and generating technical documentation to be included in regulatory filings

Requirements

• Degree in electrical engineering or related field
• 7+ years of experience in instrumentation and controls or similar field
• Experience with nuclear fuel cycle and/or high-temperature/corrosion/hazard facilities and operations

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience leading or being a subject matter expert in process hazard analysis studies
• Experience deploying or working on pilot plants through industrial facilities – both green- and brownfield

Competencies

• Passionate about clean energy
• Motivated by building, and getting technology deployed
• Energized by tackling and overcoming challenges
• Motivated by making advanced fission a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly
• Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving while not leaning only on what has been done before
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally
• An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!

About Oklo

• Travel requirements: Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings.
• Onboarding: For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
• Compensation: Salary: $120,000-$180,000
• Benefits: Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
• This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws.

Oklo Inc.

• Values: Collaboration: We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes. Humility: We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world. We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition. Ownership: We take pride in what we do and how we do it. We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through to completion. We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy. Pathfinding: We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.