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Regulatory Engineer

Oklo· Regulatory
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$82k - $195kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Regulatory Engineer responsible for navigating NRC licensing for advanced fission technologies and contributing to engineering design. Combines regulatory expertise with design analysis to support licensing and development of Oklo’s advanced reactor technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare, review, and maintain licensing documentation (e.g. Final Safety Analysis Report)
  • Plan, organize, and perform complex assignments in a team environment
  • Perform regulatory research on regulatory requirements, precedent, and guidance
  • Develop approaches to addressing regulations and guidance
  • Support or manage interactions on a variety of internal and external regulatory activities
  • Interface with technical engineering, including reviewing technical material
  • Perform design engineering work: provide technical feedback on topics of regulatory interest to quick-iterating design teams; document work using modern tools and techniques; and develop well-written, thoughtful, technical reports
  • Support or lead resolution of key strategic licensing issue

Qualifications

  • Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in technical field (e.g., nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, physics)
  • Qualifications will differ depending on your background, but experience in a technical field (not just nuclear engineering!) is expected.

Skills

Required:Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) familiarityRegulatory researchTechnical writingDesign feedback for regulatory topics

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • competitive pay
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • other benefits
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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