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Process Engineer - Fuel Recycling

Oklo· Fuel Recycling
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA / Remote)$100k - $160kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Process Engineer to join Oklo's Fuel Recycling engineering team. Responsible for design, development, prototyping, and validation of chemical separation subsystems and supporting systems for Oklo’s fuel recycling facility, including pyroprocessing, off-gas separation, and waste immobilization.

Responsibilities

  • Developing systems that meet facility and regulatory requirements
  • Defining system and unit process requirements and validation methodologies
  • Establishing performance criteria, test protocols, and prototyping equipment
  • Developing technical parameters and deploying and operating test systems to use in refining system design and operation
  • Completing equipment sizing and specifications and developing instrument process data specifications
  • Developing process flow sheets and heat and material balances using process simulation tools
  • Developing and maintaining process and instrumentation diagrams
  • Generating documentation to guide the fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of subsystems
  • Serving as a technical lead through multiple lifecycle stages
  • Generating technical documentation to be included in regulatory filings

Qualifications

  • Degree in chemical engineering or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in chemical engineering or related field

Skills

Required:Chemical engineeringProcess modeling and simulationProcess instrumentation and CAD/PDMS diagramsDocumentation and regulatory filingsCross-functional collaboration

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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