Jobs at Oklo Inc

Leads Oklo’s corporate Strategy function, including enterprise strategy, strategic planning, portfolio decisions, executive and Board advising, and high-impact initiatives. Builds and manages the Strategy team, establishes analytical and planning standards, evaluates partnerships, acquisitions, capital initiatives, and new ventures, and coordinates strategic execution across functions and business units. The role requires substantial executive judgment, commercial and financial expertise, cross-functional leadership, and significant travel to headquarters and selected engagements.

Supports the corporate Strategy team through market, competitor, customer, partnership, and business-model research; financial modeling; scenario analysis; presentations; decision memos; recommendation development; stakeholder coordination; and strategic project execution. The role maintains trackers and reusable analyses while developing foundational strategy, analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills under senior guidance.

Supports quarterly and annual SEC reporting, financial statement disclosures, tie-outs, accounting workpapers, technical accounting research, and month-end and quarter-end close activities. Performs SOX internal controls, reconciliations, journal entries, and analytical procedures. Coordinates with internal and external auditors, supports equity accounting and impairment assessments, and partners with cross-functional teams to improve reporting processes and controls.

Summer 2027 internship opportunities at Oklo span thermal hydraulics, fuel performance, mechanical analysis, instrumentation and controls, neutronics, process engineering, prototyping and manufacturing, and business operations. Interns will apply academic knowledge to engineering analysis, modeling, design, testing, documentation, fabrication, or operational improvement. Candidates must be enrolled in or recently graduated from a bachelor’s or master’s program, work 30–40 hours weekly, and be available at an Oklo location. U.S. citizenship is required.

Leads enterprise manufacturing strategy for first-of-a-kind and scalable hardware production. Develops make-versus-buy recommendations, evaluates supplier capabilities and manufacturing processes, identifies capacity and industrialization risks, and creates roadmaps from prototype builds to repeatable production. Partners with Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Strategy, Program Management, and suppliers on readiness assessments, process qualification, cost, quality, throughput, capacity, and risk mitigation. The role is strategic and technical but does not operate factories or own supplier negotiations.

Supports Workday HRIS administration, employee data management, reporting, compliance, benefits, talent operations, and People programs. Maintains accurate records, audits data, creates dashboards, troubleshoots HR transactions, supports employee inquiries and organizational changes, and assists with multi-state compliance, I-9s, leave administration, open enrollment, and workforce analytics. Partners with People leadership to improve processes, documentation, automation, and reporting in a fast-paced startup environment.

Owns end-to-end delivery of complex powerhouse deployments from design and site development through construction, commissioning, startup, and operational turnover. Responsibilities include integrated planning, scheduling, risk and issue management, governance, executive reporting, permitting and licensing support, contractor and procurement oversight, stakeholder coordination, and regulatory compliance. The role requires strong leadership, communication, analytical skills, and comfort operating in a fast-paced startup environment.

Develop and deploy nuclear reactor products from early concepts through validation and deployment. The Product Manager defines product vision, requirements, roadmaps, business cases, and success criteria while coordinating engineering, licensing, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, and operations teams. Responsibilities include leading technical tradeoffs, managing product risks and dependencies, supporting customer and partner engagements, and aligning development with regulatory, commercial, safety, cost, and schedule objectives.

Lead technical programs with DOE national laboratories and government partners, managing project scopes, work packages, budgets, schedules, agreements, deliverables, risks, and closeout. Coordinate Engineering, Legal, Procurement, Finance, and leadership stakeholders while developing new collaboration opportunities related to spent nuclear fuel recycling and pyroprocessing. The role requires technical fluency, contract and funding awareness, strong project controls, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams in a regulated, ambiguous startup environment.

Leads day-to-day operations and facility readiness for Oklo’s Aurora advanced fission plant at Idaho National Laboratory. Oversees maintenance coordination, work control, logistics, infrastructure, contractors, facility support, safety interfaces, readiness activities, records, audits, and continuous improvement. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams across operations, engineering, maintenance, radiation protection, security, emergency preparedness, quality, contractors, and site services in a highly regulated nuclear environment.

The Senior Accountant will manage journal entries, account reconciliations, and monthly and quarterly close activities. Responsibilities include analyzing general ledger activity, preparing schedules and variance analyses, supporting SEC and audit reporting, maintaining SOX controls, resolving discrepancies, and improving accounting processes. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and proficiency in NetSuite, FloQast, and Excel.

Owns the mechanical design, analysis, code compliance, fabrication, testing, installation, and operational support of high-temperature process piping, pressure vessels, and pressure boundaries for a nuclear fuel recycling facility. Responsibilities include stress, thermal, fatigue, creep, buckling, materials, and seismic analyses; supplier and fabrication oversight; quality and inspection requirements; system interfaces; commissioning support; and mentoring engineers.

Leads operations engineering for a nuclear fuel recycling facility across design, construction, commissioning, startup, and ramp-up. Develops operating concepts, design requirements, procedures, training, testing, maintenance, staffing, and readiness plans. Reviews process and control documentation, evaluates operability and human factors, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages design actions, and establishes turnover and operational-readiness criteria. Requires extensive complex-process-facility experience and strong leadership, communication, and technical writing skills.

Leads cross-functional engineering programs for Oklo’s nuclear fuel recycling facility. Defines scope, milestones, work plans, dependencies, risks, acceptance criteria, and verification methods while coordinating engineering, safety, regulatory, procurement, and deployment teams. Facilitates technical reviews, tracks decisions and blockers, communicates status to stakeholders, and adapts plans based on empirical learning. Requires technical fluency, engineered hardware delivery experience, strong communication, and program execution skills in complex, safety-conscious environments.

The Office Manager oversees workplace operations in Idaho Falls, coordinating office services, vendors, maintenance, supplies, site access, onboarding logistics, visitors, assets, invoices, safety support, and facility projects. The role tracks cross-functional requests through completion, maintains workplace records, communicates updates and restrictions, and escalates technical, safety, or security concerns. It requires strong organization, communication, vendor coordination, purchasing, and independent problem-solving skills in an onsite technical workplace.

Provides executive and administrative support to the General Counsel and Legal team, including calendar management, scheduling, travel, meeting logistics, documents, knowledge management, outside counsel billing, budgeting, accruals, onboarding, and team events. The role requires discretion, strong organization, technical proficiency, communication skills, adaptability, and the ability to manage confidential information in a fast-paced startup environment.

Own and coordinate electrical systems for Oklo’s Aurora powerhouse from design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover. Review electrical studies, drawings, specifications, vendor submittals, and construction documents; resolve technical issues and interfaces; support procurement and field execution; and coordinate EPC partners, vendors, contractors, and multidisciplinary teams. The role requires power-generation experience, practical problem-solving, and willingness to travel to project and vendor sites.

Design and validate advanced reactor cores by balancing neutronic, thermal-hydraulic, material, mechanical, and economic requirements. Perform multiphysics simulations, neutronic and thermal-hydraulic analyses, first-principles modeling, and technical documentation. Translate stakeholder needs into system requirements, collaborate with fabrication and methods teams, and provide technical feedback while developing manufacturable fast-reactor core designs.

The Cost Accountant manages capitalization and coding for capital project spend, fixed asset registers, depreciation, journal entries, reconciliations, roll-forwards, and month-end close activities. The role supports SOX controls, internal and external audits, construction-in-progress accounting, physical asset verification, and process improvements. It requires close collaboration with project controllers, procurement, accounts payable, and other stakeholders while applying U.S. GAAP and company capitalization policies.

Develop and govern portfolio planning structures, resource demand models, capacity plans, and operating scenarios across multiple projects and departments. Translate schedules and milestones into staffing, hiring, redeployment, cost, and investment insights. Establish data governance, connect scheduling, financial, workforce, and reporting systems, and present executive recommendations. Partner with Project Controls, Finance, Accounting, People Operations, project teams, and functional leaders to improve planning accuracy and support first-of-a-kind and repeat project deployments.