Engineering Operations Manager

About the Organization

Oklo Inc. is a company developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. They are establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy.

About the Role

The Engineering Operations Manager is a strategic, cross-functional operator who focuses on how engineering and product work happens—not the engineering work itself. This role identifies friction points across communication, organization, tooling, information flow, and process, then partners with senior engineering and product leadership to design and implement practical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partnering closely with senior engineering product leaders to surface pain points and prioritize organizational improvements
• Diagnosing root causes across process, tooling, ownership, communication, and cross-team interfaces
• Designing and implementing lightweight, scalable operating systems for planning, goal-setting, reviews, and retrospectives
• Building dashboards, summaries, and reporting that improve leadership visibility without creating busywork for engineers
• Improving how engineering and product teams interface with each other and with non-engineering groups
• Ensuring engineering and product knowledge, decisions, and best practices are clearly documented and easy to access
• Improving structure, standards, and usability of shared tools (e.g., Confluence, Jira, internal dashboards)
• Identifying opportunities to replace overly manual workflows with automation or improved tooling
• Partnering with People Ops on engineering-specific onboarding, growth frameworks, org changes, and performance processes
• Working with Business Ops and Procurement to streamline budgeting, purchasing, and resource planning for engineering teams
• Establishing effective meeting, calendar, and Slack practices that maximize clarity and minimize overhead
• Coordinating high-leverage engineering and product forums (e.g., offsites, design reviews, all-hands) to ensure they are purposeful and well-run

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in engineering operations, product operations, management consulting, technical program management, or similar roles
• Demonstrated experience improving cross-functional workflows, operating models, or organizational systems
• Experience working directly with senior leadership (Director-level and above) to diagnose problems, influence decisions, and implement change
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Nice to Have

• Experience working with engineering, hardware, or other highly technical teams
• Exposure to regulated industries (energy, nuclear, aerospace, medical devices)
• Experience in a startup or scaling organization
• Familiarity with tools such as Confluence, Jira, or similar systems

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $140,000-$180,000
• Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits
• This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.

This role improves clarity, efficiency, and effectiveness across engineering and product organizations, enabling highly technical teams to stay focused on delivering complex, regulated technology at scale to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy.

• 3+ years of experience in engineering operations, product operations, management consulting, technical program management, or similar roles.
• Demonstrated experience improving cross-functional workflows, operating models, or organizational systems.
• Experience working directly with senior leadership (Director-level and above) to diagnose problems, influence decisions, and implement change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Salary: $140,000-$180,000. Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy.