{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bd4e69feb88dbbf4baaa3ac2","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bd4e69feb88dbbf4baaa3ac2","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bd4e69feb88dbbf4baaa3ac2","title":"Engineering Program Manager","description":"Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to join our fuel recycling engineering team within Oklo’s Recycling Division.\n\nPosition Description\n\nThe Engineering Program Manager will play a key role in delivering our fuel recycling facility by turning complex engineering objectives into coordinated, evidence-based programs that mature with clarity, urgency, and discipline.\n\nThe Engineering Program Manager will be closely tied with functional engineering groups within the Recycling Division. You will partner closely with the group's Team Lead, who owns technical direction and people leadership, while you establish the program structure and operating cadence that enables the team to deliver.\n\nThis role is for a technically fluent program leader who can bring focus and transparency to complex situations, influence without relying on direct authority, and adapt the program when empirical data challenges the design or analysis. Success requires both rigorous execution and creative, out-of-the-box thinking in a fast-moving, safety-conscious environment.\n\nSpecific responsibilities may include:\n\nDefine program scope, deliverables, success criteria, decision points, and technical milestones aligned with Recycling Division objectives and the integrated facility schedule.\n\nTranslate established functional requirements into executable engineering and analysis plans.\n\nDrive the team to define and mature deliverables, acceptance criteria, and verification methods.\n\nBuild and maintain integrated work plans across program functions, which may include analysis, design, modeling, prototyping, and testing.\n\nMaintain dependencies, critical paths, resource needs, long‑lead activities, and required decision dates.\n\nLead the day‑to‑day cadence, including planning sessions, technical coordination meetings, design and milestone reviews, action tracking, and timely closure of decisions and blockers.\n\nCoordinate interfaces with other Recycling teams and their EPMs, as well as regulatory, safety, deployment, and procurement partners.\n\nMaintain a current view of technical risks, program risks, assumptions, interfaces, decisions, and open items.\n\nPrepare and facilitate effective program reviews with clear entry and exit criteria, decision asks, evidence summaries, risks, tradeoffs, and follow‑up actions.\n\nCommunicate program status at the right level for engineers, functional leaders, and executives.\n\nContinuously improve how the team plans, learns, and executes.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n3+ years in Engineering Program Management or similar (engineering or technical project management, technical product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles)\n\nExperience leading complex, cross‑functional engineering work in industrial, infrastructure, or other technically rigorous environments.\n\nExperience delivering engineered hardware in areas such as design, analysis, safety, prototyping, operations, maintenance, and testing.\n\nBachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nDemonstrated success guiding an engineered product through successive iterations of maturity.\n\nProficiency with a variety of project management tools, with experience selecting and changing tools in tandem with changes in scope and scale.\n\nComfort operating in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to different levels of leadership within the organization.\n\nBonus Qualifications:\n\nExposure to nuclear, chemical, mechanical, process, systems, industrial, or facility engineering environments.\n\nExposure to highly regulated design environments, including managing licensing deliverables, safety analyses, configuration and change management, requirements traceability, and verification or validation planning.\n\nExposure to risk and reliability methods such as FMEA, hazard analysis, test planning, design reviews, and technical readiness or maturity assessments.\n\nExposure to creating and managing process and facility engineering artifacts, such as block/process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment specifications, technical drawings, and engineering analyses.\n\nExposure to managing multiple vendor engagements, from RFP to SOW stages, through regular touchpoints through completion of all stated deliverables.\n\nWe are looking for an Engineering Program Manager who is:\n\nAn excellent communicator: Clear, concise, and credible; able to synthesize complex technical work into articulate decisions, risks, and actions.\n\nTechnically fluent and curious: Comfortable engaging deeply with engineering details to understand requirements, interfaces, assumptions, risk, and blockers.\n\nExecution‑oriented: Skilled at translating broad objectives into sequenced work, accountable owners, measurable milestones, and sustained follow‑through.\n\nResults‑driven: Focused on connecting analyses and assumptions to delivered systems and equipment. Identifies high‑value solutions to effectively move the needle on the overall goal.\n\nA systems thinker: Able to see how decisions within one functional organization affect interfaces.\n\nCollaborative and influential: Builds trust across disciplines and drives alignment and closure without depending on formal authority.\n\nCreative and adaptable: Brings unconventional ideas to hard problems, remains effective amid ambiguity, and can re‑plan quickly when technical learning changes the path.\n\nStrategic and detail‑oriented: Maintains the goal while staying close enough to the work to identify gaps early.\n\nMission‑ and safety‑driven: Motivated to deliver first‑of‑a‑kind nuclear technology on aggressive timelines without compromising technical rigor or safety.\n\nWho you are:\n\nA 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.\n\nMotivated: 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. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work‑life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.\n\nA 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.\n\nAn excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.\n\nCreative: 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. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open‑ended problems which may change day‑by‑day.\n\nDetail‑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.\n\nOklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off‑sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.\n\nOur Benefits:\n\nflexible time off\n\nequity\n\nbonuses\n\ncompetitive pay\n\n401(k)\n\nhealth insurance (with employer contribution)\n\nHSA\n\nFSA\n\nflexible work hours\n\nwellness credits\n\nother benefits\n\nThis position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.\n\nOklo offers flexible time off, equity, bonuses, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance (with employer contribution), HSA, FSA, flexible work hours, wellness credits, and other benefits.\n\nOklo 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. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.\n\nOklo’s Values\nCollaboration : We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes.\n\nHumility : 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.\n\nOwnership : 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.\n\nPathfinding : We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.\n\ncandidates 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.\n\nRecruitment Fraud Disclaimer\nOklo 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.\n\nAll 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.\n\nIf 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.\n\nFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self‑identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.\n\nAs set forth in Oklo’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.\n\nIf you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. 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We are searching for an Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to join our fuel recycling engineering team within Oklo’s Recycling Division.\n\nPosition Description\n\nThe Engineering Program Manager will play a key role in delivering our fuel recycling facility by turning complex engineering objectives into coordinated, evidence-based programs that mature with clarity, urgency, and discipline.\n\nThe Engineering Program Manager will be closely tied with functional engineering groups within the Recycling Division. You will partner closely with the group's Team Lead, who owns technical direction and people leadership, while you establish the program structure and operating cadence that enables the team to deliver.\n\nThis role is for a technically fluent program leader who can bring focus and transparency to complex situations, influence without relying on direct authority, and adapt the program when empirical data challenges the design or analysis. Success requires both rigorous execution and creative, out-of-the-box thinking in a fast-moving, safety-conscious environment.\n\nSpecific responsibilities may include:\n\nDefine program scope, deliverables, success criteria, decision points, and technical milestones aligned with Recycling Division objectives and the integrated facility schedule.\n\nTranslate established functional requirements into executable engineering and analysis plans.\n\nDrive the team to define and mature deliverables, acceptance criteria, and verification methods.\n\nBuild and maintain integrated work plans across program functions, which may include analysis, design, modeling, prototyping, and testing.\n\nMaintain dependencies, critical paths, resource needs, long‑lead activities, and required decision dates.\n\nLead the day‑to‑day cadence, including planning sessions, technical coordination meetings, design and milestone reviews, action tracking, and timely closure of decisions and blockers.\n\nCoordinate interfaces with other Recycling teams and their EPMs, as well as regulatory, safety, deployment, and procurement partners.\n\nMaintain a current view of technical risks, program risks, assumptions, interfaces, decisions, and open items.\n\nPrepare and facilitate effective program reviews with clear entry and exit criteria, decision asks, evidence summaries, risks, tradeoffs, and follow‑up actions.\n\nCommunicate program status at the right level for engineers, functional leaders, and executives.\n\nContinuously improve how the team plans, learns, and executes.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n3+ years in Engineering Program Management or similar (engineering or technical project management, technical product management, systems engineering, or related technical leadership roles)\n\nExperience leading complex, cross‑functional engineering work in industrial, infrastructure, or other technically rigorous environments.\n\nExperience delivering engineered hardware in areas such as design, analysis, safety, prototyping, operations, maintenance, and testing.\n\nBachelor's degree in engineering, physical science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nDemonstrated success guiding an engineered product through successive iterations of maturity.\n\nProficiency with a variety of project management tools, with experience selecting and changing tools in tandem with changes in scope and scale.\n\nComfort operating in a matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to different levels of leadership within the organization.\n\nBonus Qualifications:\n\nExposure to nuclear, chemical, mechanical, process, systems, industrial, or facility engineering environments.\n\nExposure to highly regulated design environments, including managing licensing deliverables, safety analyses, configuration and change management, requirements traceability, and verification or validation planning.\n\nExposure to risk and reliability methods such as FMEA, hazard analysis, test planning, design reviews, and technical readiness or maturity assessments.\n\nExposure to creating and managing process and facility engineering artifacts, such as block/process flow diagrams, P&IDs, equipment specifications, technical drawings, and engineering analyses.\n\nExposure to managing multiple vendor engagements, from RFP to SOW stages, through regular touchpoints through completion of all stated deliverables.\n\nWe are looking for an Engineering Program Manager who is:\n\nAn excellent communicator: Clear, concise, and credible; able to synthesize complex technical work into articulate decisions, risks, and actions.\n\nTechnically fluent and curious: Comfortable engaging deeply with engineering details to understand requirements, interfaces, assumptions, risk, and blockers.\n\nExecution‑oriented: Skilled at translating broad objectives into sequenced work, accountable owners, measurable milestones, and sustained follow‑through.\n\nResults‑driven: Focused on connecting analyses and assumptions to delivered systems and equipment. Identifies high‑value solutions to effectively move the needle on the overall goal.\n\nA systems thinker: Able to see how decisions within one functional organization affect interfaces.\n\nCollaborative and influential: Builds trust across disciplines and drives alignment and closure without depending on formal authority.\n\nCreative and adaptable: Brings unconventional ideas to hard problems, remains effective amid ambiguity, and can re‑plan quickly when technical learning changes the path.\n\nStrategic and detail‑oriented: Maintains the goal while staying close enough to the work to identify gaps early.\n\nMission‑ and safety‑driven: Motivated to deliver first‑of‑a‑kind nuclear technology on aggressive timelines without compromising technical rigor or safety.\n\nWho you are:\n\nA 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.\n\nMotivated: 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. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work‑life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.\n\nA 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.\n\nAn excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.\n\nCreative: 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. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open‑ended problems which may change day‑by‑day.\n\nDetail‑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.\n\nOklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off‑sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.\n\nOur Benefits:\n\nflexible time off\n\nequity\n\nbonuses\n\ncompetitive pay\n\n401(k)\n\nhealth insurance (with employer contribution)\n\nHSA\n\nFSA\n\nflexible work hours\n\nwellness credits\n\nother benefits\n\nThis position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.\n\nOklo offers flexible time off, equity, bonuses, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance (with employer contribution), HSA, FSA, flexible work hours, wellness credits, and other benefits.\n\nOklo 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. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.\n\nOklo’s Values\nCollaboration : We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes.\n\nHumility : 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.\n\nOwnership : 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.\n\nPathfinding : We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.\n\ncandidates 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.\n\nRecruitment Fraud Disclaimer\nOklo 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.\n\nAll 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.\n\nIf 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.\n\nFor government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self‑identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.\n\nAs set forth in Oklo’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.\n\nIf you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. 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