Senior Process Controls Engineer

About this role

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 Qualifications:

• Experience with nuclear fuel cycle and/or high-temperature/-corrosion facilities and operations

• Experience with control narratives/philosophies, piping and instrumentation diagrams, interlock lists, instrument specifications, and instrument set points

• Experience designing, managing, commissioning, and operating DCS, PLC, alarm, safety, and HMI systems

• Experience leading or serving as a subject matter expert in process hazard analysis studies

• Experience deploying or working on first-of-a-kind or pilot plants

• Commercial or governmental nuclear industry experience