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Software Engineer

Oklo· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$110k - $200kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Join Oklo to develop software for next-generation nuclear reactors, collaborating with nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology. Focus on building tools, pipelines, and kernels to improve safety, efficiency, and resiliency of reactor designs.

Responsibilities

  • Transform and optimize the storage of reactor data and physics results
  • Design and configure CI/CD pipelines to perform multiphysics analyses
  • Build tools for reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs and their physics
  • Integrate simulation tools into our analyses pipelines
  • Implement physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve performance of existing models
  • Develop high-level reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
  • Identify and improve process-related inefficiencies in reactor design that can be addressed with software

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years of work experience
  • Fluency in Python
  • Proficiency in Git
  • Experience with CI/CD

Skills

Required:PythonGitCI/CD
Nice to have:RustTypescript/Javascript (Svelte)

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • competitive pay
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • other benefits
Last updated Aug 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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