Required 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
About this role
Software engineer at Oklo, a nuclear startup developing advanced fission reactors. You'll build tools and pipelines to model, simulate, and optimize reactor designs alongside nuclear engineers. No nuclear background required, but strong software fundamentals and curiosity about nuclear energy are essential.
Responsibilities
- Transform and optimize 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 analysis pipelines
- Implement physics kernels to solve problems or 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
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency in Rust
- Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript (especially Svelte)
- Experience growing small software organizations
- Experience with large data collection pipelines
- Experience with optimization, statistics, and design of experiments
- Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD
- Experience developing and implementing software quality assurance programs and testing
- Curiosity and passion for nuclear power and sustainable energy
Location, schedule, and travel
Remote with required travel to Santa Clara, CA headquarters twice quarterly; two weeks in-person onboarding required at start.
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