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Salary: USD 120,000 - 180,000 / annual
Oklo is seeking an Engineering Program Manager to join the fuel recycling engineering team within the Recycling Division. This role is central to delivering Oklo's fuel recycling facility by translating complex engineering objectives into coordinated, evidence-based programs executed with clarity, urgency, and discipline.
You will work closely with functional engineering groups and partner with the Team Lead who owns technical direction and people leadership. As the EPM, you will establish program structure and operating cadence that enables the team to deliver. This is a role for a technically fluent program leader who can bring focus and transparency to complex situations, influence without relying on direct authority, and adapt the program when empirical data challenges the design or analysis.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define program scope, deliverables, success criteria, decision points, and technical milestones aligned with Recycling Division objectives and integrated facility schedule
- Translate functional requirements into executable engineering and analysis plans
- Drive the team to define and mature deliverables, acceptance criteria, and verification methods
- Build and maintain integrated work plans across program functions (analysis, design, modeling, prototyping, testing)
- Maintain visibility of dependencies, critical paths, resource needs, long-lead activities, and required decision dates
- Lead day-to-day cadence including planning sessions, technical coordination meetings, design and milestone reviews, action tracking, and decision closure
- Coordinate interfaces with other Recycling teams, their EPMs, and regulatory, safety, deployment, and procurement partners
- Maintain current view of technical risks, program risks, assumptions, interfaces, decisions, and open items
- Prepare and facilitate effective program reviews with clear entry/exit criteria, decision asks, evidence summaries, risks, tradeoffs, and follow-up actions
- Communicate program status at appropriate levels for engineers, functional leaders, and executives
- Continuously improve how the team plans, learns, and executes
Oklo is developing fast fission power plants for clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy. The company was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Travel: Remote employees must travel to Santa Clara headquarters twice quarterly for team meetings, off-sites, and company events. First two weeks of onboarding are in-person at headquarters.
Requirements:
- 3+ years in Engineering Program Management or similar (engineering/technical project management, technical product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles)
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering work in industrial, infrastructure, or other technically rigorous environments
- Experience delivering engineered hardware in areas such as design, analysis, safety, prototyping, operations, maintenance, and testing
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Demonstrated success guiding an engineered product through successive iterations of maturity
- Proficiency with a variety of project management tools, with experience selecting and changing tools in tandem with scope and scale changes
- Comfort operating in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to different leadership levels
Bonus Qualifications:
- Exposure to nuclear, chemical, mechanical, process, systems, industrial, or facility engineering environments
- Exposure to highly regulated design environments, including managing licensing deliverables, safety analyses, configuration and change management, requirements traceability, and verification/validation planning
- Exposure to risk and reliability methods such as FMEA, hazard analysis, test planning, design reviews, and technical readiness or maturity assessments
- Exposure to creating and managing process and facility engineering artifacts (block/process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment specifications, technical drawings, engineering analyses)
- Exposure to managing multiple vendor engagements from RFP to SOW stages through completion of deliverables
