Thanks for your interest in Oklo!  We are searching for a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer to join our team.

Position Description

SQA Engineers at Oklo facilitate the continuous development and deployment of our in-house reactor design and analysis pipeline. SQA Engineers focus on creating standardization, augmenting code cleanliness, and developing tooling to support Oklo’s developers and quality assurance requirements.

Specific responsibilities may include:

SQA Engineers contribute to many areas of Oklo’s software development, including, but not limited to:

• Developing Software Quality Assurance procedures and managing their rollout to the team
• Ensuring code quality and alignment with software requirements
• Back-fitting and maintaining company-wide code standardization as well as defining and implementing code testing plans
• Identify possible improvements to processes, tools and CI/CD workflows and implement them
• Building tools to audit Oklo code repositories for their compliance with expected QA standards
• Designing and implementing software release procedures and artifact retention policies
• Developing and maintaining versioned code documentation sites
• Supporting system-wide canary tests

Minimum Qualifications

We think the following are good indicators of qualifications to do this job:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer engineering or similar
• Experience with all parts of the software lifecycle (from planning to deployment) and/or software quality assurance programs and testing
• Expertise in unit and integration testing
• Experience in developing and implementing software quality programs  
• Experience with linting, static analysis, and code standardization
• Familiarity with standard quality procedures
• Fluency in Python
• Proficiency in Git
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in growing small software organizations
• Familiarity with nuclear quality assurance frameworks
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools or platforms (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc.)
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Podman, etc.)
• Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD
• A passion for building clean documentation for readers of varying technical depth
• Knowledge of Jira or another project management software

Who you are:

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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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.

About Oklo compensation:

Salary: $68,000-$155,000

Salary may fall outside of the range provided and will be dependent on applicant experience.

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

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About Oklo Inc.: Oklo is a California-based company developing clean energy plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy using advanced fission. Oklo is a fast-growing startup with a history of reliable funding and milestones for more than 5 years.  Oklo’s first product is a microgrid scale powerhouse. The powerhouse can produce clean energy for decades without needing to refuel, and also has the capability to turn nuclear waste into clean energy.

Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, demonstrated fabrication of its fuel, was awarded fuel from the Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first accepted advanced fission license application to the regulator.

Oklo has been featured in Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and was featured in the documentary The New Fire, among many other features.