Fire Protection Engineer

OkloSanta Clara, CA
Remote

About The Position

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Fire Protection Engineer to join our engineering team. We are looking to fill this position immediately. Fire Protection Engineers at Oklo are responsible for the design and development of the fire protection systems in Oklo's power plants.

Requirements

  • Engineering education, potentially Fire Protection, Nuclear, Chemical, or Mechanical
  • Experience performing design of fire protection systems in the nuclear, petroleum, petrochemical, or pharmaceutical industries
  • Broad familiarity with engineering principles, and having strong systems engineering and operations intuition
  • Knowledgable in nuclear facility fire protection design and operations under an NRC or DOE license
  • Experienced with NFPA 804 or NFPA 850
  • Experience with IBC or IFC standards
  • 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.
  • Motivated: You are self-motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out.
  • A team-player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren’t about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.
  • An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.
  • Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement.
  • Detail-oriented: 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.

Nice To Haves

  • Passionate about 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
  • An excellent writer who can write in a modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
  • Able to communicate technical content and results verbally

Responsibilities

  • Establish fire protection requirements that inform plant design
  • Develop Fire Hazard Analyses, Fire Protection Program, First Safe Shutdown Analyses, and other licensing and design documentation
  • Define equipment architecture, specifications, operational modes, and performance criteria
  • Lead the design of fire protection equipment
  • Perform commissioning and testing of fire protection systems
  • Manage projects with third party fire protection consultants
  • Document work using modern tools and techniques, and compose well-written, thoughtful technical reports

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • competitive pay
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
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