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Engineering Program Manager

Oklo· Fuel Recycling
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$120k - $180kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Program Manager to lead the fuel recycling facility program within Oklo’s Recycling Division, partnering with functional engineering groups to establish program structure, cadence, and deliverables in a fast-moving, safety-conscious environment.

Responsibilities

  • Define program scope, deliverables, success criteria, decision points, and technical milestones aligned with Recycling Division objectives and the integrated facility schedule.
  • Translate established functional requirements into executable engineering and analysis plans.
  • Drive the team to define and mature deliverables, acceptance criteria, and verification methods.
  • Build and maintain integrated work plans across program functions, which may include analysis, design, modeling, prototyping, and testing.
  • Maintain dependencies, critical paths, resource needs, long-lead activities, and required decision dates.
  • Lead the day-to-day cadence, including planning sessions, technical coordination meetings, design and milestone reviews, action tracking, and timely closure of decisions and blockers.
  • Coordinate interfaces with other Recycling teams and their EPMs, as well as regulatory, safety, deployment, and procurement partners.
  • Maintain a current view of technical risks, program risks, assumptions, interfaces, decisions, and open items.
  • Prepare and facilitate effective program reviews with clear entry and exit criteria, decision asks, evidence summaries, risks, tradeoffs, and follow-up actions.
  • Communicate program status at the right level for engineers, functional leaders, and executives.
  • Continuously improve how the team plans, learns, and executes.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in Engineering Program Management or similar (engineering or technical project management, technical product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles)
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering work in industrial, infrastructure, or other technically rigorous environments.
  • Experience delivering engineered hardware in areas such as design, analysis, safety, prototyping, operations, maintenance, and testing.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Demonstrated success guiding an engineered product through successive iterations of maturity.
  • Proficiency with a variety of project management tools, with experience selecting and changing tools in tandem with changes in scope and scale.
  • Comfort operating in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to different levels of leadership within the organization.

Skills

Required:Engineering program managementCommunicationProject management toolsSystems thinkingRisk management

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 18, 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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