Safety Analysis Engineer

Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. They are seeking a Safety Analysis Engineer responsible for designing and developing analyses that form the safety bases for the reactor systems, collaborating with regulatory and design engineers on key deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• Proficiency with thermal-hydraulics analysis
• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear, mechanical, or aerospace engineering
• Experience with systems-level analysis codes such as SAS4A/SASSYS-1, SAM, RELAP, TRACE, GOTHIC, or equivalent is highly recommended
• Experience with reactor transient analysis methods
• Fluency with Python
• Core competencies in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics first principles
• Professional experience developing or amending safety case analyses on high-hazard or highly-regulated facilities
• Prior experience developing or amending safety bases and associated documentation for NRC-licensed or DOE-authorized nuclear facilities
• Experience with specific safety analyses (e.g., steam line break or fuel relocation analysis)
• Knowledgeable about fast reactors and fuel cycle activities
• Competency with modern software engineering practices and programming languages
• Experience with CI/CD computing environments