Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

The posting, as Oklo wrote it

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for an Instrumentation & Controls Engineer to join our team in Idaho Falls.

Position Description

Oklo is transforming the future of energy, and we are looking for an experienced Instrumentation & Controls Engineer to lead and support the design, integration, commissioning, and operation of instrumentation and control systems for test platforms used in advanced nuclear technology development.

In this role, you will translate test and process requirements into reliable measurement, control, data-acquisition, and protective functions. You will work closely with test, process, mechanical, electrical, software, quality, and operations personnel throughout the full system lifecycle, from concept development and equipment selection through fabrication, testing, startup, troubleshooting, and configuration management with travel up to 10%.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on field experience and broad knowledge of industrial instrumentation. Strong familiarity with the Emerson DeltaV distributed control system is preferred. Experience working under a nuclear quality assurance program, particularly ASME NQA-1, is also preferred.

Specific responsibilities may include

• I&C System Design and Architecture: Develop control-system architectures, functional requirements, I/O strategies, network concepts, and interfaces for test platforms and supporting facility systems.
• Instrumentation Engineering: Select and specify instruments for temperature, pressure, flow, level, position, force, strain, vibration, and other process or test measurements. Evaluate accuracy, range, response time, environmental suitability, installation requirements, and measurement uncertainty.
• Control System Development: Develop, configure, and verify control logic, control modules, operator graphics, alarms, interlocks, permissives, sequences, and data-acquisition functions using distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, and related platforms. Able to develop new system architecture.
• Engineering Documentation: Prepare and maintain I/O lists, instrument indexes, data sheets, loop diagrams, wiring diagrams, control narratives, logic diagrams, network drawings, alarm setpoint documentation, test procedures, and as-built records.
• Test Platform Integration: Coordinate the integration of instruments, control panels, remote I/O, analyzers, control valves, electrical interfaces, industrial networks, and data systems with mechanical and process equipment.
• Commissioning and Verification: Develop and execute design-verification activities, factory and site acceptance tests, loop checks, functional tests, calibration reviews, control-system checkout, and startup plans.
• Test Operations and Troubleshooting: Support test readiness reviews and test execution. Diagnose instrumentation, controls, electrical, communications, software, and data-acquisition issues, perform r

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o 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.

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