The Facility Design Engineer at Oklo Inc. will play a key role in developing balance-of-plant design for a commercial-scale Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) recycling facility. This position involves process analysis, requirements generation, and equipment design, with extensive collaboration across cross-functional teams and external architectural and engineering (A&E) firms.
What You'll Do
- Developing facility layouts, workflows, and infrastructure plans to optimize efficiency, safety, security and compliance
- Defining specifications, performance criteria, and requirements for facility process support equipment
- Interacting and managing partner A&E firms supporting facility development work
- Project management relating to facility design
- Creation and/or oversight of building drawings: architectural, P&ID, pipe routing, etc.
- Establishing maintenance and reliability processes and procedures
- Generating maintenance and reliability documentation to be included in regulatory filings
What We're Looking For
- Engineering education, potentially Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, or Structural
- Experience working with large-scale manufacturing or chemical process facilities design or operation
- Project management and vendor management experience
- Experience with 2D and 3D CAD software
- Broad familiarity with engineering principles, including having strong systems engineering intuition
- Experience with ‘balance-of-plant’ facility design
- Experience with the engineering drawing types utilized for a large-scale facility
Nice to Have
- Experience in the commercial or governmental nuclear sectors
- Experience designing for high reliability and extended maintenance intervals
- Experience with mechanized material handling systems
- Experience managing radioactive material
- Experience in facilities using a high-level of automation
- Experience designing equipment for high (>500 C) temperature operation
- Experience deploying or working on pilot plants
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent certification
Technical Stack
- 2D CAD
- 3D CAD
- P&ID
- SCADA
- DCS
- HVAC
- Piping systems
- Electrical systems
- Instrumentation sensors
- Emergency shutdown systems (ESD)
- Backup power generation systems
Team & Environment
You will be part of a cross-functional fuel recycling engineering team, working in a culture defined by collaboration, humility, ownership, and pathfinding. We bring diverse perspectives together, act with mission focus, and proactively solve complex challenges to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible time off
- Equity
- Competitive pay
- 401k
- Health insurance
- FSA
- Flexible work hours
- Attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events
Compensation includes a salary range of $80,000–$180,000 DOE, equity, and benefits including 401k, health insurance, and FSA.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in Santa Clara, CA. Remote employees must travel to headquarters twice per quarter. Flexible work hours are offered.
Candidates should be aware that employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a drug screening, and employees may be subject to drug testing at any time in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.