Fuel Performance Engineer

Summary

Join Oklo's team as a Fuel Performance Engineer, responsible for analyzing and verifying fuel performance for Aurora powerhouses. You will conduct engineering analyses, modeling, simulations, and documentation, collaborating with reactor design, fuel fabrication, and licensing teams. Specific responsibilities include analyzing fuel design performance under various conditions, developing analysis methodologies, verifying and validating simulation tools, supporting experimental fuel campaigns, and providing technical feedback. The ideal candidate is passionate about clean energy, a quick learner, and comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment. Oklo offers competitive pay, flexible time off, equity, 401k, health insurance, FSA, and flexible work hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, plus 3 years of experience
• Experience with multi-physics system performance analyses
• Experience with finite element simulation software (e.g., Ansys, Abaqus)
• Experience with material analysis
• Experience with object-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, C++)

Responsibilities

• Analyzing current and novel fuel design performance across expected operating conditions and postulated off-normal conditions
• Devising analysis methodologies that efficiently and effectively build confidence in a design, which can include software development of modeling and simulation tools
• Verification and validation of modeling and simulation tools in support of analyses
• Supporting experimental fuel campaigns
• Collaborating cross-functionally to provide technical feedback to design teams
• Documenting work using modern tools and techniques, and writing well-written, thoughtful technical reports

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with nuclear fuel performance analysis
• Familiarity with metallic fuels
• Experience with fuel analysis and fuel performance software (e.g., BISON, LIFE-METAL, etc.)
• Experience in material selection and material analysis
• Fluency in Python

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Equity
• Competitive pay
• 401k
• Health insurance
• FSA
• Flexible work hours