Oklo Inc
Posted 20 days agoVerified live 16h ago
Core Design Engineer
Brief overview
Remote
MastersOr in progress
$130k–$190k/yrStated range
3+ yrsMinimum
Reactor Core DesignReactor PhysicsMultiphysics SimulationObject-Oriented ProgrammingPythonC++Neutronic AnalysisThermal-Hydraulic AnalysisMaterials AnalysisFast Reactor Core DesignFuel Cycle Optimization
Job description
Summary
Oklo Inc. is developing advanced fission power plants, nuclear fuel recycling technologies, and clean energy solutions. The company is seeking a Core Design Engineer to design performant and manufacturable reactor cores, execute multiphysics simulations, document designs, validate core requirements, and collaborate with fabrication and methods development teams.
Responsibilities
- Traveling to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) 2x per calendar quarter for team meetings, company offsite, or other business gatherings
- Translating top-level stakeholder requirements into well-written system functional requirements
- Modeling core performance over time through multiphysics simulations and first principles approaches
- Documenting work using modern tools and techniques, and producing well-written technical reports
- Collaborating cross-functionally to define performance requirements, and providing technical feedback to methods development teams
Skills
- • Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in nuclear engineering or a related field
- • Experience with core design from a multidisciplinary perspective
- • Experience with object-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, C++)
- • Experience with neutronic analyses
- • Experience with thermal hydraulic analysis
- • Experience with material analysis
- • Familiarity with principles of fast reactor core design
- • Experience with fuel cycle optimization
- • Familiarity/experience with ternary fuel and ternary fuel cycles
- • Experience with CI/CD computing environments
- • Experience with Monte Carlo neutronics tools (e.g., SERPENT, MCNP, SCALE, etc.)
- • Experience with deterministic neutronics tools (e.g., DIF3D, PERSENT, etc.)
- • Experience with reactor systems codes (e.g., SAS4A/SASSYS-1, SAM, RELAP, TRACE, GOTHIC, etc.)
- • Experience with fuel analysis and fuel performance software (e.g., BISON, LIFE-METAL, etc.)
- • Fluency in Python
Qualifications
Must Haves
- • Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in nuclear engineering or a related field
- • Experience with core design from a multidisciplinary perspective
- • Experience with object-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, C++)
- • Experience with neutronic analyses
- • Experience with thermal hydraulic analysis
- • Experience with material analysis
Nice to Haves
- • Familiarity with principles of fast reactor core design
- • Experience with fuel cycle optimization
- • Familiarity/experience with ternary fuel and ternary fuel cycles
- • Experience with CI/CD computing environments
- • Experience with Monte Carlo neutronics tools (e.g., SERPENT, MCNP, SCALE, etc.)
- • Experience with deterministic neutronics tools (e.g., DIF3D, PERSENT, etc.)
- • Experience with reactor systems codes (e.g., SAS4A/SASSYS-1, SAM, RELAP, TRACE, GOTHIC, etc.)
- • Experience with fuel analysis and fuel performance software (e.g., BISON, LIFE-METAL, etc.)
- • Fluency in Python
Benefits
- Flexible time off
- Equity
- Bonuses
- 401(k)
- Health insurance (with employer contribution)
- HSA
- FSA
- Flexible work hours
- Wellness credits