Human Factors Engineer
Oklo Inc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $100,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Develop and maintain Oklo’s HFE program, execution plans, and compliance strategies.
- Provide technical recommendations for internal and external engineering design teams as it pertains to human factors.
- Ensure human factors principles are effectively and systematically incorporated into the engineering design process to support safe, intuitive, and efficient human-system interaction across all project phases.
- Contribute to internal and external design reviews, presenting HFE assessments and advocating for human-centered improvements in design and operations.
- Analyze and recommend improvements for plant layouts, user interfaces, procedures, and other human-system interfaces. Support the development of specifications that reflect human capabilities and limitations.
- Identify and document operator and technician needs, functional tasks, and system use requirements through task analysis, workload evaluation, and scenario modeling.
- Plan and execute HFE verification and validation activities, staffing studies, and human-system interface usability assessments. Ensure outcomes align with safety, licensing, and performance goals.
- Organize and coordinate efforts across engineering disciplines and external stakeholders (clients, partners, suppliers) to support cohesive system design, interface integration, and HFE implementation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in human factors engineering, cognitive systems engineering, industrial engineering, or a related field.
- Experience performing HFE program management, analysis, design, verification and validation, and implementation.
- Hands-on operations experience—nuclear or non-nuclear—is strongly preferred. Examples include plant operations, control room environments, industrial or manufacturing settings, or other real-world operational contexts.
- Familiarity with HFE regulatory requirements (e.g., NUREG-0711, NUREG-0700).
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
human factors engineeringcognitive systems engineeringindustrial engineeringHFE program managementtask analysisworkload evaluationscenario modelingverification and validationusability assessmentsdesign reviews
Soft skills
technical recommendationsadvocating for improvementsorganizing effortscoordinating across disciplinescommunication with stakeholders