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Software Lifecycle Specialist

Oklo· Engineering
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$110k - $165kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role focused on strengthening the software development lifecycle, ensuring high-quality delivery, and maintaining compliance with internal and regulatory standards. Shape how software is scoped, tracked, governed, and released across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain software lifecycle standards, templates, and workflows across GitLab and Jira.
  • Establish and enforce traceability between requirements, design artifacts, code, testing, and validation activities.
  • Partner with engineers to ensure proper scoping, backlog hygiene, and milestone alignment.
  • Define change control and configuration management expectations in collaboration with DevOps/Engineering Infrastructure.
  • Support audit readiness by ensuring lifecycle documentation and records are complete and reproducible.
  • Define lifecycle standards including Definition of Done expectations and release controls.
  • Build reporting and dashboards that provide visibility into lifecycle health, risk, and delivery status.
  • Identify gaps in the software lifecycle and improve engineering workflows.
  • Translate compliance requirements into practical, implementable engineering workflows.
  • Evaluate and recommend tooling improvements that strengthen lifecycle integrity without introducing unnecessary process overhead.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, technical program management, software quality, or systems engineering.
  • Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle concepts including requirements traceability, version control, CI/CD, configuration management, validation, and release control.
  • Experience working with Jira or similar issue tracking systems in a structured, milestone-driven environment.
  • Experience documenting processes clearly and unambiguously.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and building structure where none exists.

Skills

Required:Software lifecycle governanceRequirements traceabilityConfiguration managementJiraCI/CD

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • competitive pay
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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