Oklo
Human Factors Engineer
Santa Clara, CA or Remote · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$135k-$175kDetected 56 days ago
UX ResearchSupply ChainSystems EngineeringMechanical DesignElectrical EngineeringCommunicationCollaborationWriting
About the role
- This individual will foster safety through facilitating correct, and inhibiting wrong, decisions by personnel and by ensuring there exist adequate means for detecting, correcting, and compensating for human error.
- Who you are: A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process.
Responsibilities
- Develop the human factors engineering (HFE) strategy, implementation plans, technical bases, and safety basis documentation, including HFE inputs to the integrated safety analysis (ISA), items relied on for safety (IROFS), management measures, and safety program commitments.
- Lead operating experience reviews, functional requirements analyses, function allocation, task analyses, staffing and qualifications analyses, and human action evaluations across startup, normal operations, shutdown, maintenance, abnormal operations, emergency response, and degraded equipment or interface conditions.
- Plan and execute HFE verification and validation activities, including HSI task support verification, HFE design verification, integrated system validation, mockups, simulator exercises, walkdowns, tabletop exercises, human-in-the-loop evaluations, performance measures, and human engineering discrepancy resolution.
- Prepare license application content, safety evaluation materials, readiness reviews, audit packages, requests for additional information, and inspection support materials.
- Interface with engineering teams and vendors to ensure HFE requirements are integrated early in the design lifecycle and remain aligned with design changes, operating concepts, and safety basis assumptions.
- Help establish human performance monitoring and continuous improvement approaches so that validated HFE assumptions remain effective as the facility design, procedures, training, and operations mature.
- We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect.
- Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.
- About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience applying human factors engineering to nuclear reactor or fuel cycle technology
- Familiarity with NRC or DOE expectations for human factors, safety analysis, licensing documentation, management measures, credited human actions, or safety-significant administrative controls
- Direct experience with NUREG-0711, NUREG-0700, NUREG-0800 Chapter 18, and NUREG-1520.
- For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree or professional certification in human factors, ergonomics, cognitive systems engineering, systems safety, nuclear engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with digital I&C, automation, alarm management, control room design, local control station design, simulator development, mockup testing, usability testing, or human reliability analysis.
- Quick to engage with novel systems and regulatory frameworks
- comfortable driving clarity in undefined or evolving areas.
- A startup person: You aren't driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process.
- You don't need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast-paced team.
- If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won't enjoy working with us!
- There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.
Skills
- Quick to engage with novel systems and regulatory frameworks; comfortable driving clarity in undefined or evolving areas.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, iterative startup culture that values execution, ownership, and agility over formality.
Compensation
- Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
- $135,000-$175,000
Benefits
- It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.
Company info
- This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality.
- Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.
- We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world.
- We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition.
- We take pride in what we do and how we do it.
- We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through to completion.
- We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
- We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.
- Candidates should be aware that employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a drug screening, and employees may be subject to drug testing at any time in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.
- Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer
- Oklo is aware of recent recruitment fraud attempts targeting job seekers.
- Please be cautious of anyone claiming to represent Oklo who does not contact you from an official Oklo email address.
- All legitimate communications from our recruiting team- including application updates, interview requests, and job offers - will come exclusively from an @oklo.com email.
- Oklo will never ask for sensitive personal information, payments, or account credentials during the hiring process.
- If you receive suspicious outreach or have concerns about the authenticity of any communication claiming to be from Oklo, please contact us through the official channels listed on our website.
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