Safety Analysis Engineer

The Safety Analysis Engineer is responsible for designing and developing analyses that form the safety bases that will be incorporated in the license application for Oklo's reactor systems.

• Performing safety analysis using quantitative and qualitative methodologies
• Developing safety bases
• Working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to establish functional, performance, safety, and other facility requirements, and to engineer effective optimized mitigations
• Executing licensing projects and contributing strategically to licensing deliverables
• Managing projects for an interdisciplinary team of engineers
• Developing analytical and computational methods and models
• Documenting work using modern tools and techniques, and writing well-written, thoughtful technical reports

This role contributes to developing fast fission power plants that deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale, advancing nuclear technology to provide sustainable energy solutions.

• Passionate about clean energy and making advanced fission a reality
• Experienced with building formal safety bases
• Willing and able to learn quickly and think differently
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Able to communicate technical content and results in written form and verbally
• Proficiency with thermal-hydraulics analysis
• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear, mechanical, or aerospace engineering
• Experience with systems-level analysis codes such as SAS4A/SASSYS-1, SAM, RELAP, TRACE, GOTHIC, or equivalent is highly recommended
• Experience with reactor transient analysis methods
• Fluency with Python

Salary: $80,000-$185,000 (may fall outside of this range based on experience)

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.