Software Engineer

Position Description:

Oklo is a fast-moving startup where you will be responsible for tackling a wide range of challenges in reactor design and analysis. A nuclear background is not required, but a healthy curiosity and eagerness to learn are essential in this role.

In this role you might:

• Transform and optimize the storage of reactor data and physics results
• Design and configure CI/CD pipelines to perform multiphysics analyses
• Build tools for reactor engineers to visualize, compare, and evaluate reactor designs and their physics
• Integrate simulation tools into our analyses pipelines
• Implement physics kernels to solve unanswered problems, or to improve performance of existing models
• Develop high-level reactor optimization schemes and statistical experiments to inform design changes
• Identify and improve process-related inefficiencies in reactor design that can be addressed with software

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of work experience
• Fluency in Python
• Proficiency in Git
• Experience with CI/CD

Bonus Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Rust
• Proficiency in Typescript/Javascript (especially Svelte)
• Experience in growing small software organizations
• Experience working with large data collection pipelines
• Experience with optimization, statistics and design of experiments
• Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD
• Prior work developing and implementing software quality assurance programs and testing, especially in quality-focused industries
• Curiosity and passion for nuclear power, closing the nuclear fuel cycle, and sustainable energy generation

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 fee