AI-Driven Nuclear Systems Software Engineer

Oklo; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oklo is hiring a Software Engineer to develop ML-enabled workflows and production models for nuclear system design and analysis. You will work with engineers to deploy surrogate models and real-time digital twins while growing the software team.

The role emphasizes security, fast iteration, and clear communication with senior leadership, aiming to advance clean energy through advanced fission technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Math, Physics, or equivalent software engineering experience.
• Managing and/or integrating AI into large, corporate data ontologies.
• Leading company-wide initiatives (from project inception to delivery and maintenance).
• Physics-informed machine learning (surrogates, symbolic encodings, digital twins).
• Python fluency.
• CI/CD pipelining.
• Git proficiency.
• Growing small software organizations.
• Working with large data collection pipelines.
• Optimization, statistics and design of experiments.

Responsibilities

• Invent and implement practical LLM-based workflows to accelerate Oklo's business and engineering processes.
• Ensure rigorous security and information control.
• Accelerate both engineering and non-technical workflows.
• Design, implement, deploy and maintain production machine learning models for the design and analysis of nuclear systems.
• Develop surrogate models for use in real-time digital twins.
• Grow and manage a team of software engineers to support your AI initiatives.
• Present roadmaps, product demos, and progress updates to senior leadership.
• Ensure their departments' needs are met by your initiatives.
• Solicit user feedback from individual contributors and department leadership.

Skills

Python fluency

AI/ML integration

CI/CD

Git proficiency

Data pipelines

Optimization & DOE

Team leadership

Nuclear domain curiosity

Physics-informed ML

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Math/Physics

Tools

Rust

Typescript/Javascript (Svelte)

GitLab CI/CD

MCNP/SERPENT/Open-MC

Job description

Oklo is hiring a Software Engineer to develop ML-enabled workflows and production models for nuclear system design and analysis. You will work with engineers to deploy surrogate models and real-time digital twins while growing the software team.

The role emphasizes security, fast iteration, and clear communication with senior leadership, aiming to advance clean energy through advanced fission technologies.