Safety Analysis Engineer

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Safety Analysis Engineer to join our team. 

Position Description:

The Pyroprocessing Safety Analysis Engineer is responsible for designing and developing analyses that form the safety bases that will be incorporated in the license application for Oklo’s used fuel recycling facility. This position includes review of regulatory document and codes, developing approaches, designing and executing engineering analyses, conducting some modeling and simulation, and crafting documentation. Additionally, the team member in this position collaborates closely with other regulatory and design engineers, aiding in the execution of key licensing deliverables.

• Performing safety analysis using quantitative and qualitative methodologies

• Developing safety bases

• Working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to establish functional, performance, safety, and other facility requirements, and to engineer effective optimized mitigations

• Executing licensing projects and contributing strategically to licensing deliverables

• Managing projects for an interdisciplinary team of engineers

• Developing analytical and computational methods and models

• Documenting work using modern tools and techniques, and writing well-written, thoughtful technical reports

Competencies:

We are looking for a Safety Analysis Engineer that is:

• Passionate about clean energy

• Passionate about making advanced fission a reality

• Experienced with building formal safety bases

• Willing and able to learn quickly

• Willing to think differently and do things in new ways 

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment

• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving while not leaning only on what has been done before 

• Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems

• An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!

• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors in a technical field, such as nuclear, chemical, process, mechanical, or aerospace engineering

• Professional experience developing or amending safety case analyses on high-hazard or highly-regulated facilities

Bonus Qualifications:

• Prior experience developing or amending safety bases and associated documentation for …