Responsibilities
- Developing and conducting high-fidelity analyses using CFD to analyze thermal-hydraulic behavior through the reactor core, reactor vessel, heat exchangers, power conversion, and balance of plant systems
- Proactively designing, modeling, and analyzing thermal hydraulic systems
- Developing and utilizing analysis methods that efficiently and effectively build confidence in a design
- Performing engineering analyses, which can include thermal, fluid, safety, manufacturability, and cost
- Collaborating cross-functionally to define design requirements, and providing technical feedback to quick-iterating design teams
- Documenting work using modern tools and techniques, and writing well-written, thoughtful technical reports
- Providing technical feedback to quick-iterating design teams
Requirements
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear, mechanical, or aerospace engineering
- Proficiency with STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Fluent, OpenFOAM, Nek-5000, or equivalent
- Core competencies in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics first principles
- Experience with data processing (e.g., pre-processing, post-processing, scripting)
Nice to Have
- Experience with thermal hydraulic engineering principles and multi-physics analysis methods for engineering applications, particularly as they relate to power systems
- Experience with nuclear engineering principles and multi-physics analysis methods for engineering applications, particularly as they relate to advanced reactors
- Experience with analysis of heat exchangers, turbomachinery, and fluid control systems
- Competency with modern software engineering practices and programming languages
- Fluency with Python
- Experience with reactor transient analysis methods
- Experience with systems or reactor safety codes such as GOTHIC, RELAP, TRACE, SAM, or SAS4A/SASSYS-1
Benefits
- flexible time off
- equity
- competitive pay
- 401k
- health insurance
- FSA
- flexible work hours
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
