Engineering Program Manager

Summary

Oklo is developing advanced fission power plants, nuclear fuel recycling technologies, and related clean-energy systems. The Engineering Program Manager will coordinate fuel recycling engineering programs by establishing execution structures, translating requirements into plans, managing cross-functional work, and driving technical milestones, reviews, risks, and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define program scope, deliverables, success criteria, decision points, and technical milestones aligned with Recycling Division objectives and the integrated facility schedule
• Translate established functional requirements into executable engineering and analysis plans
• Drive the team to define and mature deliverables, acceptance criteria, and verification methods
• Build and maintain integrated work plans across program functions, which may include analysis, design, modeling, prototyping, and testing
• Maintain dependencies, critical paths, resource needs, long-lead activities, and required decision dates
• Lead the day-to-day cadence, including planning sessions, technical coordination meetings, design and milestone reviews, action tracking, and timely closure of decisions and blockers
• Coordinate interfaces with other Recycling teams and their EPMs, as well as regulatory, safety, deployment, and procurement partners
• Maintain a current view of technical risks, program risks, assumptions, interfaces, decisions, and open items
• Prepare and facilitate effective program reviews with clear entry and exit criteria, decision asks, evidence summaries, risks, tradeoffs, and follow-up actions
• Communicate program status at the right level for engineers, functional leaders, and executives
• Continuously improve how the team plans, learns, and executes

Skills

• 3+ years in Engineering Program Management or similar (engineering or technical project management, technical product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles)
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering work in industrial, infrastructure, or other technically rigorous environments
• Experience delivering engineered hardware in areas such as design, analysis, safety, prototyping, operations, maintenance, and testing
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated success guiding an engineered product through successive iterations of maturity
• Proficiency with a variety of project management tools, with experience selecting and changing tools in tandem with changes in scope and scale
• Comfort operating in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to different levels of leadership within the organization
• Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings
• For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA
• Exposure to nuclear, chemical, mechanical, process, systems, industrial, or facility engineering environments
• Exposure to highly regulated design environments, including managing licensing deliverables, safety analyses, configuration and change management, requirements traceability, and verification or validation planning
• Exposure to risk and reliability methods such as FMEA, hazard analysis, test planning, design reviews, and technical readiness or maturity assessments
• Exposure to creating and managing process and facility engineering artifacts, such as block/process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment specifications, technical drawings, and engineering analyses
• Exposure to managing multiple vendor engagements, from RFP to SOW stages, through regular touchpoints through completion of all stated deliverables

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years in Engineering Program Management or similar (engineering or technical project management, technical product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles)
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering work in industrial, infrastructure, or other technically rigorous environments
• Experience delivering engineered hardware in areas such as design, analysis, safety, prototyping, operations, maintenance, and testing
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated success guiding an engineered product through successive iterations of maturity
• Proficiency with a variety of project management tools, with experience selecting and changing tools in tandem with changes in scope and scale
• Comfort operating in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to different levels of leadership within the organization
• Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings
• For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA

Nice to Haves

• Exposure to nuclear, chemical, mechanical, process, systems, industrial, or facility engineering environments
• Exposure to highly regulated design environments, including managing licensing deliverables, safety analyses, configuration and change management, requirements traceability, and verification or validation planning
• Exposure to risk and reliability methods such as FMEA, hazard analysis, test planning, design reviews, and technical readiness or maturity assessments
• Exposure to creating and managing process and facility engineering artifacts, such as block/process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment specifications, technical drawings, and engineering analyses
• Exposure to managing multiple vendor engagements, from RFP to SOW stages, through regular touchpoints through completion of all stated deliverables

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Equity
• Bonuses
• Competitive pay
• 401(k)
• Health insurance (with employer contribution)
• HSA
• FSA
• Flexible work hours
• Wellness credits