Tooling Architect for Engineering Systems

Oklo Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Equity

Competitive pay

401k

Health insurance

FSA

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Oklo Inc. is seeking a Systems Enablement lead to coordinate and manage engineering tools across the company. You will evaluate, onboard, and govern platformed software that engineers use to design, simulate, and deliver advanced fission power technology.

Based in Santa Clara, CA, you will partner with Engineering Infrastructure, IT, and internal customers to ensure seamless tool integration, governance, and lifecycle management in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in technical product management, solutions engineering, systems engineering, technical program delivery, engineering operations, or a similar cross-functional technical role.
• Experience working directly with software vendors, implementation partners, or third-party technical platforms.
• Strong technical understanding of software systems, integrations, APIs, permissions models, and enterprise tooling environments.
• Experience coordinating complex multi-stakeholder technical efforts across internal teams and external partners.
• Experience translating ambiguous business or engineering needs into structured plans, requirements, and next steps.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, vendors, and leadership.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and building structure where none exists.

Responsibilities

• Lead intake and evaluation efforts for new engineering tools, platforms, and vendor solutions.
• Gather requirements from internal stakeholders and translate them into clear evaluation criteria, implementation plans, and delivery expectations.
• Conduct technical research, facilitate demos, compare solutions, and document tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Serve as a primary coordination point with vendors during onboarding, implementation, and follow-on phases of work.
• Drive timelines, action tracking, meeting follow-ups, and cross-functional communication across multiple concurrent tool initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering Infrastructure, IT, and internal customers to ensure new systems are integrated into existing workflows and technical environments.
• Identify interoperability gaps between existing and proposed tools, including APIs, data flows, permissions, and workflow dependencies.
• Track implementation progress, surface blockers, and help coordinate internal resources needed for successful rollout and user acceptance.
• Maintain continuity across the tool lifecycle, including additional phases of work, support engagements, upgrades, and eventual decommissioning or replacement.
• Build and maintain clear status reporting for stakeholders on active tool onboarding efforts, vendor deliverables, and lifecycle health.
• Help define repeatable onboarding and platformization practices that improve consistency as the portfolio of tools grows.

Skills

Product management

Vendor management

Software systems

Stakeholder coordination

Requirements translation

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Oklo Inc. is seeking a Systems Enablement lead to coordinate and manage engineering tools across the company. You will evaluate, onboard, and govern platformed software that engineers use to design, simulate, and deliver advanced fission power technology.

Based in Santa Clara, CA, you will partner with Engineering Infrastructure, IT, and internal customers to ensure seamless tool integration, governance, and lifecycle management in a fast-moving startup environment.