External Hazards Regulatory Engineer

Position Description

The External Hazards Regulatory Engineer at Oklo is responsible for developing the licensing strategy and supporting the engineering technical work for addressing external hazards.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Define scopes of work, review technical proposals, and review execution of external hazards analyses by both internal engineering teams and external contracting firms.
• Manage progress on external hazards analyses, regulatory submittals, and licensing support.
• Ensure integration of external hazard assessments (e.g., seismic, flooding, and meteorological phenomena) into the overall licensing strategy and design-basis evaluations.
• Identify and assess potential safety challenges posed by external hazards early in project development, and recommend mitigation measures or design modifications.
• Track changes in NRC regulations (e.g., 10 CFR Part 100, Regulatory Guides, NUREGs) and evaluate their impact on external hazards compliance strategy.
• Develop and maintain regulatory strategy documents, white papers, and briefing materials that articulate the approach to addressing external hazard requirements.
• Represent external hazards considerations in cross-functional planning and strategic meetings with internal stakeholders.
• Oversee internal external hazards project management systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and licensing teams to incorporate hazard analysis results into probabilistic risk assessments, safety evaluations, and licensing deliverables.
• Review deliverables from constructors relevant to external hazards.
• Coordinate the preparation and review of responses to NRC requests for additional information (RAIs) related to external hazards topics.
• Author, edit, and finalize technical reports, regulatory filings, presentations, and licensing documents using modern documentation tools and best practices for clarity and consistency.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience performing or evaluating external hazards assessments
• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in civil engineering, environmental engineering, nuclear engineering