Strike Engineer
Oklo · Santa Clara, CA or Remote
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**Strike Engineer — Oklo** ## Position Description Oklo is seeking a **Strike Engineer** to join our engineering team. This is a senior, highly adaptable role reporting to the **Engineering Strike Team Lead**, focused on taking ownership of Oklo’s **highest-priority, most ambiguous technical problems**. Depending on the need, the Strike Engineer may serve as a **hands-on individual contributor**, **technical lead**, or **interim manager**—building context quickly, reducing problems to first principles, and driving work through **verified resolution**. You’ll establish durable paths, help staff the work, transfer ownership to the right long-term team, and then move to the next priority. ## Specific Responsibilities (may include) - Embed in high-priority engineering programs and rapidly develop understanding of the system, constraints, stakeholders, and failure modes. - Define problems from first principles by separating facts from assumptions, identifying governing physics/interfaces, and reducing uncertainty to testable questions. - Work hands-on across design, analysis, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, software/data, systems integration, and field execution as needed. - Establish practical execution plans (owners, decision points, schedule, risks, objective completion criteria) and drive to verified closure. - Diagnose technical/operational failures using data, experiments, direct observation, and disciplined root-cause analysis. - Make sound engineering tradeoffs under uncertainty, accounting for safety, regulatory requirements, quality, cost, schedule, operability, and manufacturability. - Temporarily lead projects/teams when needed by clarifying priorities, coordinating cross-functional work, removing blockers, and communicating decisions/risks. - Help recruit and onboard permanent owners, then transfer stable scope with clear documentation, open risks, decisions, and next steps. - Create reusable tools, processes, design standards, or technical documentation to prevent recurring problems or accelerate future work. ## Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in engineering/physics (or related) **or equivalent practical experience**. - **2+ years** solving complex engineering problems from definition through design, execution, validation, and handoff. - Technical breadth across multiple domains and deep expertise in at least one area (e.g., mechanical, electrical, controls, software, systems, manufacturing, test, thermal-fluid, structural, or nuclear engineering). - Demonstrated ability to reason from first principles, challenge assumptions, and validate conclusions with analysis, tests, or operating data. - Hands-on ability to use the tools needed to move work forward (modeling, CAD, calculations, test equipment, scripting, data analysis, prototyping, etc.). - Experience leading cross-functional technical work without relying on formal authority (including stepping into temporary management responsibilities). - Strong written and verbal communication (decision records, technical plans, risk summaries, executive updates). ## Bonus Qualifications - Experience in nuclear industry / advanced reactor development / commercial power generation / national labs / other safety-critical energy environments. - Experience delivering hardware or integrated systems in regulated, high-consequence, or quality-controlled environments. - Experience starting a new program, recovering a stalled project, or resolving persistent technical/opera
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