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Process Engineer

Oklo· Power Engineering
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA)$80k - $155kfull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

Process Engineer position at Oklo responsible for design, engineering analyses, systems engineering, specifications development, and operations of fluids and power process systems used in Oklo’s power plants.

Responsibilities

  • Design fluid and process systems including: piping, valves, compressors, pumps, and heat exchangers
  • Define process equipment architecture, specifications, operational modes, and performance criteria
  • Design, assemble, and operate prototypes to use for iterative design refinement
  • Generate documentation guiding the system layout, fabrication, installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of process equipment
  • Serve as process system owner through multiple lifecycle stages
  • Generate technical documentation to be included in regulatory filings
  • Work with external vendors on process equipment analysis, procurement, and testing
  • Document work using modern tools and techniques, and compose well-written, thoughtful technical reports

Qualifications

  • Engineering education, potentially Mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum, or Aerospace
  • Experience performing design or modification engineering on process equipment, such as that used in the petroleum, nuclear, petrochemical, or pharmaceutical industries
  • Broad familiarity with engineering principles, and having strong systems engineering and operations intuition

Skills

Required:fluids/process system designcompressible gas system designs (air and inert gases)writing and communication

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • competitive pay
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • other benefits
Last updated Oct 23, 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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