Role
Oklo is searching for a Fuel Performance Engineer responsible for fuel performance analyses and verification of current and future fuel designs for Oklo's Aurora powerhouses, spanning engineering analyses, modeling and simulation, thorough documentation, and interfacing with reactor design, fuel fabrication, and licensing teams. The posting states the company is looking to fill the position immediately.
Specific responsibilities include analyzing current and novel fuel design performance across expected operating conditions and postulated off-normal conditions; devising efficient analysis methodologies including software development of modeling and simulation tools; verification and validation of those tools; supporting experimental fuel campaigns; collaborating cross-functionally to feed technical feedback to design teams; and documenting work with modern tools and well-written technical reports.
Minimum qualifications require a bachelor's degree in engineering plus 3 years of experience, multi-physics system performance analyses, finite element simulation software such as Ansys or Abaqus, material analysis, and an object-oriented programming language such as Python or C++; bonus qualifications include nuclear fuel performance analysis, metallic fuels, BISON or LIFE-METAL fuel software, material selection, and Python fluency. The posting lists Santa Clara, California or Remote with the same twice-per-quarter Santa Clara travel, two-week in-person onboarding, U.S. export-control U.S.-person eligibility, and U.S. work-authorization requirements. Stated salary is $120,000–$165,000, noted as experience-dependent and possibly outside the range, plus flexible time off, equity, 401(k), health insurance, FSA, and flexible hours.
Snapshot
| Employer | Oklo |
| Workplace | Santa Clara, California, US (remote-eligible) |
| Onsite | Remote |
| Employment type | — |
| Salary | $120,000–$165,000 |
| Date posted | 2022-12-12 |
| Expires | — |
| Verified | 2026-09-27 |
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