Software Engineer

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

Position Description:

Software Engineers at Oklo contribute to our in-house reactor design and analysis pipeline. Developers support the product used by all reactor engineers to conduct their work.

Software Engineers contribute to many areas of the simulation pipelines, including, but not limited to:

• Transforming and optimizing the way in which we store reactor data and physics results
• Improving CI/CD configurations to support different multiphysics analyses
• Building tools for reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs and their physics
• Amending physics kernels and models that are developed in-house
• Developing high-level reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
• Identifying and improving process-related inefficiencies in reactor design that can be solved with our software

Minimum Qualifications:

We also think the following are good indicators of qualifications to do this job:

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

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience in growing small software organizations
• Experience working with large data collection pipelines
• Proficiency with embedded systems
• Experience with optimization, statistics and design of experiments
• Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD
• Prior work developing and implementing software quality assurance programs and testing

Who you are:

A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.

Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work-life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.

A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for …