Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Senior Software Engineer at Oklo (Santa Clara, CA or Remote) to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology. Collaborate with nuclear engineers to develop software for reactor data management, multithreaded simulations, and reactor design tools while advancing safe, efficient, and resilient nuclear power.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of systems for storing and retrieving reactor data and physics results at scale
- Architect and own CI/CD pipelines for multiphysics analyses, ensuring reliability, observability, and reproducibility of complex simulations
- Develop tools and platforms that enable reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs
- Develop physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve performance of existing models
- Develop reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
- Mentor other engineers, set technical direction, and contribute to building a strong engineering culture
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Fluency in Python
- Strong proficiency with Git
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end: requirements gathering, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional partners (e.g., scientists, analysts, or domain experts)
- Curiosity and passion for nuclear power, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and sustainable energy generation
Skills
Benefits
- Oklo offers flexible time off
- equity
- competitive pay
- 401k
- health insurance
- FSA
- flexible work hours
- other benefits
About Oklo
Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.
About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. (Oklo) is developing advanced fission power plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, has performed successful prototypic fuel fabrication, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, developed the first advanced fission combined license application accepted and docketed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories. Oklo has been featured in Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and is featured in the Oliver Stone documentary Nuclear, among other features.
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