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Director of Power Business Real Estate

Oklo· Business
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Santa Clara, CA$190k - $250kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Director, Power Business Real Estate responsible for owning all site control activities for Oklo's Aurora powerhouse development pipeline, leading a team of land professionals, and coordinating with multiple internal teams on site feasibility, zoning, and regulatory compatibility.

Responsibilities

  • Lead all site identification, screening, and acquisition efforts across Oklo's development pipeline
  • Negotiate and execute land option agreements, purchase and sale agreements, easements, rights-of-way, access agreements, and Joint Venture agreements
  • Manage title review, survey coordination, and curative title work across active sites
  • Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective sites meeting Oklo's siting criteria (proximity to load, available land area, soil conditions, water access, community context)
  • Coordinate with Development Engineering on site feasibility and with Environmental & Permitting on zoning and land use risk
  • Manage landowner and broker relationships across multiple states
  • Over time, build and lead a team of land and real estate professionals
  • Identify and secure sites suitable for Isotope production facilities, evaluating proximity to Aurora powerhouse sites, workforce access, water and waste infrastructure, and NRC licensing requirements
  • Lead land and real estate activities for Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses (NLICs), including multi-parcel assemblage, shared infrastructure easement structuring, and coordination with local governments on zoning for mixed nuclear-use facilities

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in energy project land acquisition, real estate, or land management
  • Demonstrated experience executing site control across a portfolio of complex energy or infrastructure projects
  • Strong negotiation skills with experience across agricultural, industrial, and government-owned land
  • Familiarity with GIS tools for site screening and parcel analysis
  • Experience working in multi-state environments with varying regulatory and title requirements

Skills

Required:Land acquisition and negotiationSite screening and GISRegulatory and title coordination

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 Sep 25, 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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