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Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

Oklo· Engineering
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Idaho Falls, ID$90k - $150kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Instrumentation & Controls Engineer role responsible for design, integration, commissioning, and operation of instrumentation and control systems for Oklo's test platforms in Idaho Falls, with travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

  • I&C System Design and Architecture: Develop control-system architectures, functional requirements, I/O strategies, network concepts, and interfaces for test platforms and supporting facility systems.
  • Instrumentation Engineering: Select and specify instruments for temperature, pressure, flow, level, position, force, strain, vibration, and other process or test measurements. Evaluate accuracy, range, response time, environmental suitability, installation requirements, and measurement uncertainty.
  • Control System Development: Develop, configure, and verify control logic, control modules, operator graphics, alarms, interlocks, permissives, sequences, and data-acquisition functions using distributed control systems, PLCs, and related platforms. Able to develop new system architecture.
  • Engineering Documentation: Prepare and maintain I/O lists, instrument indexes, data sheets, loop diagrams, wiring diagrams, control narratives, logic diagrams, network drawings, alarm setpoint documentation, test procedures, and as-built records.
  • Test Platform Integration: Coordinate the integration of instruments, control panels, remote I/O, analyzers, control valves, electrical interfaces, industrial networks, and data systems with mechanical and process equipment.
  • Commissioning and Verification: Develop and execute design-verification activities, factory and site acceptance tests, loop checks, functional tests, calibration reviews, control-system checkout, and startup plans.
  • Test Operations and Troubleshooting: Support test readiness reviews and test execution. Diagnose instrumentation, controls, electrical, communications, software, and data-acquisition issues, perform root-cause investigations, and implement technically sound corrective actions.
  • Procurement and Supplier Oversight: Develop technical specifications, evaluate vendor proposals, review supplier submittals, support procurement, and verify that equipment and services meet technical and quality requirements.
  • Design and Configuration Control: Manage design changes, software and hardware configurations, setpoints, drawings, calculations, and technical records in accordance with applicable engineering and quality requirements.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Experience designing, specifying, procuring, commissioning, or troubleshooting process and mechanical equipment.
  • Experience preparing or reviewing piping and instrumentation diagrams, process-flow diagrams, equipment data sheets, engineering calculations, technical specifications, and vendor drawings.
  • Working knowledge of pumps, valves, piping, heat exchangers, tanks, pressure equipment, heaters, or similar process components.
  • Ability to perform fluid-flow, pressure-drop, heat-transfer, and equipment-sizing calculations.
  • Ability to lift, move, and position equipment weighing up to 30 pounds.

Skills

Required:I&C System DesignInstrumentation selectionControl systemsDocumentation
Nice to have:Test and commissioning

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • bonuses
  • competitive pay
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance (with employer contribution)
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • wellness credits
  • other benefits
Last updated Aug 21, 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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