Jobs at Oklo Inc

Designs and engineers fluid and power process systems for advanced fission plants, including piping, valves, compressors, pumps, and heat exchangers. Responsibilities include defining equipment specifications, designing and operating prototypes, producing lifecycle documentation, supporting regulatory filings, owning process systems, and coordinating with vendors on procurement and testing. The role requires strong technical communication, systems engineering judgment, and willingness to travel up to 50% for vendor and integration support.

Designs and integrates automated systems, robotic material-handling equipment, electromechanical systems, sensors, and controls for remote-operated nuclear fuel recycling processes. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, requirements development, control logic, prototyping, testing, commissioning documentation, lifecycle technical leadership, and regulatory support. The role collaborates across engineering disciplines and requires experience designing automation or robotic systems for challenging environments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Develop and maintain integrated schedules for complex energy and infrastructure projects across engineering, licensing, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning. Analyze critical paths, risks, forecasts, float, and schedule impacts; lead status cycles and planning meetings; integrate vendor schedules; create recovery scenarios and executive reports; and align cost, schedule, risk, and earned-value data while enforcing schedule quality and governance standards.

Oklo is accepting general applications from candidates at all experience levels who are motivated to contribute to advanced fission, nuclear fuel recycling, and clean energy. Applicants should demonstrate excellence, creativity, communication, teamwork, adaptability, and strong attention to detail. Specific roles may not be immediately available; applications will be reviewed for future opportunities. Remote employees must travel to Santa Clara headquarters twice per quarter, with in-person onboarding required for the first two weeks.

The Regulatory Engineer navigates regulatory frameworks while contributing to engineering design for fuel recycling facilities and licensing requirements.

Designs, analyzes, prototypes, and operates fluid and process systems for isotope production, recovery, purification, and handling. Owns process system architecture, specifications, documentation, performance, and lifecycle configuration. Develops process diagrams, balances, operating envelopes, and regulatory documentation; collaborates with vendors on equipment procurement and testing. Supports product quality requirements and conducts hazard analyses addressing chemical, radiological, criticality, contamination, and abnormal-operation risks.

Design, integrate, commission, operate, and troubleshoot instrumentation and control systems for advanced nuclear technology test platforms. Responsibilities include selecting instruments, developing control logic and architectures, preparing engineering documentation, integrating process equipment and industrial networks, conducting verification and startup testing, overseeing suppliers, and maintaining configuration control. The role requires collaboration across engineering, quality, software, operations, and test teams, with occasional travel.

Develop and execute neutronics analyses for isotope production reactor design, operation, safety, shielding, fuel cycles, depletion, activation, target optimization, and uncertainty quantification. Build and validate computational models using MCNP, Serpent, SCALE, and Python; develop reproducible workflows; support multidisciplinary design, testing, licensing, safety evaluations, and regulatory responses; and communicate technically defensible results and uncertainties.