Software Engineer

Summary

Join Oklo, a fast-paced startup, and contribute to the development of advanced fission power technology. You will work alongside nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy innovative reactor solutions. This role involves tackling a wide range of challenges in reactor design and analysis, requiring strong software skills and a willingness to learn. You will be responsible for tasks such as transforming and optimizing reactor data, designing CI/CD pipelines, building visualization tools, integrating simulation tools, developing physics kernels, implementing optimization schemes, and identifying process inefficiencies. Oklo offers a competitive compensation package, including flexible time off, equity, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent work experience
• Fluency in Python
• Proficiency in Git
• Experience with CI/CD

Responsibilities

• Transform and optimize the storage of reactor data and physics results
• Design and configure CI/CD pipelines to perform multiphysics analyses
• Build tools for reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs and their physics
• Integrate simulation tools into our analyses pipelines
• Implement physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve performance of existing models
• Develop high-level reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
• Identify and improve process-related inefficiencies in reactor design that can be addressed with software

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Rust
• Proficiency in Typescript/Javascript (especially Svelte)
• Experience in growing small software organizations
• Experience working with large data collection pipelines
• Experience with optimization, statistics and design of experiments
• Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD
• Prior work developing and implementing software quality assurance programs and testing, especially in quality-focused industries
• Curiosity and passion for nuclear power, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and sustainable energy generation

Benefits

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