engineering
Posted Apr 23Technical Product Engineer
at Oklo
Remote
Responsibilities
- Lead intake and evaluation efforts for new engineering tools, platforms, and vendor solutions. Gather
- Conduct technical research, facilitate demos, compare solutions, and document tradeoffs and recommendations.
- Drive timelines, action tracking, meeting follow-ups, and cross-functional communication across multiple concurrent tool initiatives.
- Identify interoperability gaps between existing and proposed tools, including APIs, data flows, permissions, and workflow dependencies.
- Track implementation progress, surface blockers, and help coordinate internal resources needed for successful rollout and user acceptance.
- Maintain continuity across the tool lifecycle, including additional phases of work, support engagements, upgrades, and eventual decommissioning or replacement.
- Build and maintain clear status reporting for stakeholders on active tool onboarding efforts, vendor deliverables, and lifecycle health.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent industry experience. 5+ years of
- experience in technical product management, solutions engineering, systems engineering, technical program delivery, engineering operations, or a similar cross-functional technical role. •
- Experience working directly with software vendors, implementation partners, or third-party technical platforms.
- Strong technical understanding of software systems, integrations, APIs, permissions models, and enterprise tooling environments. •
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with engineers, vendors, and leadership.
- experience with our stack and tools is helpful, but not required: •
- Experience supporting onboarding or lifecycle management of engineering, simulation, CAD, PLM, or other technical business systems. •
- Experience with GitLab, Jira, Confluence, or related engineering workflow and project tracking systems. •
- Experience working in regulated, compliance-driven, or high-rigor engineering environments. •
- Experience supporting internal platform strategy, systems rationalization, or portfolio-level tool governance. •
- You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out.
- For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
Benefits
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and building structure where none exists. Bonus
- 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.
- About Oklo compensation: $110,000-$165,000
- Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
Contact
- All legitimate communications from our recruiting team— including application updates, interview requests, and job offers — will come exclusively from an @oklo.com email.
Additional details
- Join us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors! As part of the Systems Enablement team, you will help evaluate, onboard, integrate, and manage the engineering tools and platforms that enable teams across Oklo to design, simulate, and deliver advanced fission power technology.
- You will work at the forefront of the nuclear industry, helping ensure our internal tool ecosystem is scalable, connected, and aligned to the needs of a rapidly growing engineering organization.
- Come be a part of powering the future with advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.
- This role will be focused on leading the intake, evaluation, onboarding, and lifecycle coordination of engineering software platforms and vendor-delivered systems.
- We support a variety of internal “customers” and help ensure new tools are selected thoughtfully, implemented effectively, integrated into existing workflows, and managed responsibly over time.
- Oklo is a fast-moving startup, and we are scaling the structure around how tools are introduced and maintained without losing speed.
- You will have the opportunity to shape how engineering systems are researched, introduced, coordinated, and sustained across the company.
- A nuclear background is not required, but strong technical judgment, organizational discipline, vendor management capability, and curiosity about engineering systems are all essential in this role.
- Members of the Systems Enablement team help align tooling, governance, and execution across engineering domains. In this role you might:
- requirements from internal stakeholders and translate them into clear evaluation criteria, implementation plans, and delivery expectations.