Safety Analysis Engineer

Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. The Safety Analysis Engineer is responsible for designing and developing analyses that form the safety bases for Oklo’s reactor systems, collaborating with regulatory and design engineers to execute key design and licensing 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 link 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