Thanks for your interest in Oklo ! We are searching for a Senior Process Controls Engineer for our recycling engineering team.
Position Description:
The person in this role will be responsible for designing, implementing, troubleshooting, scaling, and monitoring various process control systems for the Oklo fuel recycling facility. Some subsystems may include off-gas separation, and waste immobilization. It will include collaboration with cross-functional teams including those with a focus on facility design, unit process equipment design, and licensing.
This position could alternatively be fulfilled by someone with experience and/or education in instrumentation and controls, electrical, chemical, or process engineering.
Specific responsibilities may include:
- Develop systems that meet facility and regulatory requirements
- Develop and document overall control philosophy – define key control variables, setpoints, and rationale to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient process operations
- Prepare and review control system documentation – including instrument loop drawings, logic drawings, cause-and-effect matrices, and interlock schemes
- Define and manage control and alarm strategies – establish alarm priorities, setpoints, and functional descriptions to support operator awareness and system safety
- Design and specify control system architecture – covering hardware, software, and network requirements for distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and human-machine interface (HMI) applications
- Generate technical documentation to be included in regulatory filings
Competencies:
We are looking for a Senior Process Controls Engineer that is:
- Motivated by building, and getting technology deployed
- Energized by tackling and overcoming challenges
- Passionate about clean energy, and making advanced fission a reality
- Willing and able to learn quickly
- Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly-iterative startup environment
- Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving while not leaning only on what has been done before
- Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems
- Able to communicate technical content and results verbally
- An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in Chemical or Electrical Engineering or similar
- 10+ years of experience in process controls engineering or similar field
Bonus Qua lifications:
- Experience with nuclear fuel cycle and/or high-temperature/-corrosion facilities and operations
<