Software Lifecycle Specialist

• Define and maintain software lifecycle standards, templates, and workflows across GitLab and Jira.
• Establish and enforce traceability between requirements, design artifacts, code, testing, and validation activities.
• Partner with engineers to ensure proper scoping, backlog hygiene, and milestone alignment.
• Define change control and configuration management expectations in collaboration with DevOps/Engineering Infrastructure.

This role ensures the software lifecycle rigor that enables Oklo to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable nuclear energy safely and compliantly, directly contributing to climate change mitigation and energy sustainability.

• 5+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, technical program management, software quality, or systems engineering.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle concepts including requirements traceability, version control, CI/CD, configuration management, validation, and release control.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
• Experience working with Jira or similar issue tracking systems in a structured, milestone-driven environment.

Salary: $110,000-$165,000. 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.