Software Engineer

Join us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors! You'll leverage your software skills alongside nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology. You will work at the forefront of the nuclear industry, developing novel techniques to reach new levels of safety, efficiency, and resiliency. Come be a part of powering the future with advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.

Oklo is a fast-moving startup where you will be responsible for tackling a wide range of challenges in reactor design and analysis. A nuclear background is not required, but a healthy curiosity and eagerness to learn are essential in this role.

• Transform and optimize the storage of reactor data and physics results
• Design and configure CI/CD pipelines to perform multiphysics analyses
• Build tools for reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs and their physics
• Integrate simulation tools into our analyses pipelines
• Implement physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve performance of existing models
• Develop high-level reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
• Identify and improve process-related inefficiencies in reactor design that can be addressed with software

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of work experience
• Fluency in Python
• Proficiency in Git
• Experience with CI/CD

• Proficiency in Rust
• Experience in growing small software organizations
• Experience working with large data collection pipelines
• Experience with optimization, statistics and design of experiments
• Knowledge of Git Lab CI/CD
• Prior work developing and implementing software quality assurance programs and testing, especially in quality-focused industries
• Curiosity and passion for nuclear power, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and sustainable energy generation

• A startup person:
  You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won't enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.
• Motivated:
  You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn't about a fake or arbitrary "pieces of flair" mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.
• A team-player:
  Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren't about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren't about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.
• Excellent communicator:
  We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.
• Creative:
  Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open-ended problems which may change day-by-day.
• Detail-oriented:
  This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Even excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.

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