Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oklo Inc. is pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors and developing advanced fission power technology. The Software Engineer will apply software engineering, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to model, simulate, design, and deploy nuclear systems, while leading AI initiatives and supporting software engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Invent and implement practical LLM-based workflows to accelerate Oklo’s business and engineering processes
- Ensure rigorous security and information control
- Accelerate both engineering and non-technical workflows
- Design, implement, deploy and maintain production machine learning models for the design and analysis of nuclear systems
- Develop surrogate models for use in real-time digital twins
- Grow and manage a team of software engineers to support your AI initiatives
- Present roadmaps, product demos, and progress updates to senior leadership
- Ensure their departments' needs are met by your initiatives
- Solicit user feedback from individual contributors and department leadership
Skills
- A nuclear background is not required, but a healthy curiosity and eagerness to learn are essential in this role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, or equivalent software engineering experience
- Managing and/or integrating AI into large, corporate data ontologies
- Leading company-wide initiatives (from project inception to delivery and maintenance)
- Physics-informed machine learning (surrogates, symbolic encodings, digital twins)
- Python fluency
- CI/CD pipelining
- Git proficiency
- Growing small software organizations
- Working with large data collection pipelines
- Optimization, statistics and design of experiments
- Rust development
- Typescript/Javascript (especially Svelte) development
- GitLab CI/CD
- Growing and managing teams of software engineers
- Navigating sensitive, controlled, or externally regulated data
- Knowledge of and excitement for a nuclear-powered future
- Navigating quality assurance and compliance requirements with AI
- Nuclear engineering concepts (reactors, power generation, fuel performance, fuel recycling, etc.)
- Passionate about clean energy
- Passionate about making advanced fission a reality
- Willing and able to learn quickly
- [Knowledgeable about fast reactor design]
- [Highly skilled with Monte Carlo neutronics tools such as MCNP, SERPENT, and Open-MC]
- [Skilled with deterministic fast reactor tools, or wiling and eager to learn]
- Eager to work on a dynamic team, receive constructive feedback, and grow with us
- Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
- Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving, while not leaning only on what has been done before
- Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems
- An excellent writer who can write in modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
- Able to communicate technical content and results verbally
- A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won't enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that
- Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn't about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals
- A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren't about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren't about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team
- An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator
- Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open-ended problems which may change day-by-day
- Detail-oriented: This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward
- 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
- This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible
Benefits
- Flexible time off
- Equity
- Bonuses
- 401(k)
- Health insurance (with employer contribution)
- HSA
- FSA
- Flexible work hours
- Wellness credits
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