Instrumentation and Controls Engineer
About the role
The Instrumentation and Controls Engineer is responsible for developing, analyzing, and integrating measurement and control systems to support reactor operation. This position may reside within powerhouse engineering supporting power generation or within the isotopes organization supporting isotope reactors.
Responsibilities
- Design instrumentation and control systems that integrate sensors, instrumentation, actuators, and other control components
- Lead the technical execution of assigned systems as a responsible engineer that coordinates requirements, design, testing, and commissioning
- Develop control strategies and algorithms for industrial equipment
- Support our engineering team in integrating and coupling engineering analyses
- Provide technical feedback to quick-iterating design teams
- Document work using modern tools and techniques, and write well-written, thoughtful technical reports
Requirements
- Experience specifying, designing, and integrating instrumentation that spans temperature, pressure, radiation, neutron instrumentation, and other process measurement technologies
- Experience with measurement techniques, signal conditioning, data acquisition, and logic diagrams
- Experience developing system and component level requirements
- Experience designing control strategies and automating industrial equipment and processes
- Experience managing, communicating with, and providing oversight to EPC contractors, vendors, and equipment manufacturers
- Experience with analog and digital circuits
- Experience with digital networks and communication protocols
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with thermal energy conversion systems and components
- Experience with electricity transmission and power electronics
- Experience with Python
Qualifications
- Passionate about clean energy
- Passionate about making advanced fission a reality
- Willing and able to learn quickly
- Eager to work on a dynamic team, receive constructive feedback, and grow with us
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
- Able 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
Compensation
Salary: $115,000-$190,000. Salary may fall outside of the range provided and will be dependent on applicant experience.
Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
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. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
About Oklo
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.