Senior Software Engineer
Oklo Inc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Join us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors!
- Leverage software skills alongside nuclear engineers to model, simulate, design, and deploy advanced fission power technology.
- Responsible for tackling a wide range of challenges in reactor design and analysis.
- Lead the design of systems for storing and retrieving reactor data and physics results at scale.
- Architect and own CI/CD pipelines for multiphysics analyses, ensuring reliability, observability, and reproducibility of complex simulations.
- Develop tools and platforms that enable reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs.
- Develop physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve the performance of existing models.
- Develop reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes.
- Mentor other engineers, set technical direction, and contribute to building a strong engineering culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Fluency in Python
- Strong proficiency with Git
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end: requirements gathering, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional partners (e.g., scientists, analysts, or domain experts)
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
PythonCI/CD pipelinesmultiphysics analysesreactor designphysics kernelsreactor optimizationstatistical experimentssoftware engineeringrequirements gatheringarchitecture
Soft skills
strong communication skillscollaborationmentoringtechnical directionengineering culture
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in computer engineering