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Strike Engineer

Oklo· Prototyping Engineering
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA (onsite) and remote)$120k - $170kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior, adaptable engineer who reports to the Engineering Strike Team Lead. Owns high-priority, ambiguous technical problems; may serve as hands-on contributor, technical lead, or interim manager; develops durable paths and transfers ownership to long-term teams.

Responsibilities

  • Embed in high-priority engineering programs and rapidly develop a working understanding of the system, constraints, stakeholders, and current failure modes.
  • Define problems from first principles by separating facts from assumptions, identifying governing physics and interfaces, and reducing uncertainty to testable questions.
  • Work hands-on across design, analysis, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, software and data, systems integration, and field execution as the problem requires.
  • Establish a practical execution plan with owners, decision points, schedule, risks, and objective completion criteria, then drive the work through verified closure.
  • Diagnose technical and operational failures using data, experiments, direct observation, and disciplined root-cause analysis.
  • Make sound engineering tradeoffs under uncertainty while accounting for safety, regulatory requirements, quality, cost, schedule, operability, and manufacturability.
  • Temporarily lead a project or team when needed by clarifying priorities, coordinating cross-functional work, removing blockers, and communicating decisions and risks.
  • Help recruit and onboard permanent owners, then transfer stable scope with clear documentation, open risks, decisions, and next steps.
  • Create reusable tools, processes, design standards, or technical documentation when they will prevent recurring problems or accelerate future work.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 or more years of experience solving complex engineering problems from definition through design, execution, validation, and handoff.
  • Technical breadth across multiple engineering domains and deep expertise in at least one area such as mechanical, electrical, controls, software, systems, manufacturing, test, thermal-fluid, structural, or nuclear engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability to reason from first principles, challenge unsupported assumptions, and validate conclusions with analysis, tests, or operating data.
  • Hands-on ability to use the tools needed to move work forward, which may include modeling, CAD, calculations, test equipment, scripting, data analysis, or prototyping.
  • Experience leading cross-functional technical work without relying on formal authority, including stepping into temporary management responsibilities when needed.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including concise decision records, technical plans, risk summaries, and executive-level updates.

Skills

Required:First-principles reasoningCross-functional leadershipCommunication

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • bonuses
  • competitive pay
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance (with employer contribution)
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • wellness credits
Last updated Oct 9, 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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