Senior Hardware Integration Engineer

Oklo Inc. is transforming the future of energy, and they are seeking a Senior Hardware Integration Engineer to join their Systems Engineering team. This role involves driving the successful integration of complex hardware systems from design through validation, verification, and deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain system and product integration plans, including integration sequencing, interface readiness, test objectives, risk areas, and cross-functional dependencies
• Drive alignment across systems engineering, hardware engineering, integration and test, project management, procurement, suppliers, and other stakeholders to support successful system integration
• Identify, track, and help resolve technical and programmatic integration risks, gaps, and blockers across complex hardware systems
• Support requirements flow down, interface management, verification planning, integration readiness reviews, and test readiness activities
• Coordinate integration-related inputs across design, procurement, manufacturing, assembly, test, and delivery schedules to ensure teams are working from a shared plan
• Communicate integration status, risks, decisions, and priorities clearly to technical teams, project leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, systems engineering, or a related discipline
• 5–10 years of experience in systems engineering and integration of complex hardware systems
• Proven experience working with Systems Engineering, Integration and Test, or SEIT-type teams in a cross-functional engineering environment
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across diverse technical teams, including engineering, project management, procurement, manufacturing, suppliers, and test organizations
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive alignment across teams with competing priorities
• Experience supporting system integration activities in a highly regulated or technically complex industry
• Advanced degree in engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical field
• Proficiency with systems engineering tools, solutions, and processes for requirements management, interface management, verification planning, or system architecture
• Experience with interface control drawings within CAD platforms (such as Solidworks, NX, etc.)
• Familiarity with systems engineering standards, frameworks, or professional practices such as INCOSE
• Experience applying Model-Based Systems Engineering principles, methods, or tools
• Experience working in highly regulated industries such as nuclear, aerospace, defense, medical devices, energy, or similar complex hardware environments
• Experience supporting integrated product teams, supplier integration, test readiness reviews, verification and validation planning, or complex hardware delivery programs