Senior Technical Advisor

About the Organization

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.

About the Role

We are searching for a Senior Technical Advisor to join our engineering team. The Senior Technical Advisor serves as the technical deputy to the Group Director, operating as a senior individual contributor with broad technical authority and organizational reach across the group.

Key Responsibilities

• Traveling to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) 2x per calendar quarter for team meetings, company offsite, or other business gatherings.
• Technical Leadership and Decision Enablement:
• Act as a trusted technical advisor and deputy to the Group Director on matters spanning nuclear engineering, analysis quality, and technical program execution.
• Provide independent technical judgment on cross-group issues, trade studies, and programmatic decisions.
• Represent the Group Director in technical forums, reviews, or coordination meetings as delegated.
• Group-Wide Technical Programs:
• Design, draft, and maintain group-level technical work instructions, procedures, and best-practice guidance.
• Lead the development and rollout of shared technical infrastructure needed for new or evolving programs (e.g., documentation systems, analysis workflows, review processes).
• Identify gaps or friction points in how work is executed across teams and proactively develop solutions.
• Technical Integration & Coordination:
• Coordinate across multiple teams and disciplines to establish new programs, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations, internal standards, and practical execution realities.
• Translate high-level organizational goals into concrete technical processes that teams can realistically adopt and sustain.
• Facilitate alignment between analysts, designers, software developers, QA, and management.
• Deep Dives & Problem Solving:
• Perform targeted deep dives into specific technical topics as needed to unblock programs, resolve ambiguities, or inform decision-making.
• Rapidly develop working knowledge in unfamiliar technical areas and synthesize expert input into actionable guidance.
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective actions for cross-cutting technical or process issues.
• Quality, Consistency, and Scalability:
• Promote consistency in technical rigor, documentation quality, and analysis practices across the group.
• Help ensure that technical outputs are defensible, reviewable, and scalable as the organization grows.
• Balance technical fidelity, schedule, and resource constraints in proposed solutions.

Requirements

• Experience Level: Experienced (10+yr)
• Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering or a closely related technical field (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science).
• Significant experience (i.e., 10+ years) across a breadth of nuclear engineering technical domains (e.g., reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics, fuel cycle, safety analysis, licensing support, systems engineering).
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical generalist while engaging deeply with specialists.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft clear, practical technical guidance.
• Proven experience coordinating work across multiple teams or disciplines.
• High degree of technical judgment and professionalism.

Nice to Have (if applicable)

• Advanced degree in Nuclear Engineering or a closely related technical field (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science)
• Licensed Professional Engineer in a related field
• Experience with analysis methods verification and validation

Compensation & Benefits

• $140,000 - $190,000
• Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

This role contributes to making advanced fission a reality by developing clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale, helping establish a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes, and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy.

• Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering or a closely related technical field (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science)
• Significant experience (i.e., 10+ years) across a breadth of nuclear engineering technical domains (e.g., reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics, fuel cycle, safety analysis, licensing support, systems engineering)
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical generalist while engaging deeply with specialists
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft clear, practical technical guidance
• Proven experience coordinating work across multiple teams or disciplines
• High degree of technical judgment and professionalism

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits. Salary range: $140,000 - $190,000.

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.