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Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

Oklo · Idaho Falls, ID

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Level
Engineer
Team
Controls
Base pay
$90k–$150k
Travel
10%
Degree
Required
Industry
Industrial
Posted
30+ days ago

The role in 30 seconds

An engineer-level controls role at Oklo (industrial) in Idaho Falls, ID. In this role, you will translate test and process requirements into reliable measurement, control, data-acquisition, and protective functions.

They ask for
degree required
Tools it names
Root cause, Automation
Base pay
$90k–$150k
Day to day
about 10% travel

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How this role compares

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Base pay
In line with similar roles

Typical $97k–$143k, from 200 postings that list pay.

Experience asked
Not stated

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Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Automation 73%
  • PLC 65%
  • Robotics 43%
  • Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 31%
  • ✓ Root cause 29%
  • Team leadership 20%

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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

Qualifications

  • ✓Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, or a related technical field.
  • ✓Experience designing, specifying, procuring, commissioning, or troubleshooting process and mechanical equipment.
  • ✓Experience preparing or reviewing piping and instrumentation diagrams, process-flow diagrams, equipment data sheets, engineering calculations, technical specifications, and vendor drawings.
  • ✓Working knowledge of pumps, valves, piping, heat exchangers, tanks, pressure equipment, heaters, or similar process components.
  • ✓Ability to perform fluid-flow, pressure-drop, heat-transfer, and equipment-sizing calculations.
  • ✓Ability to lift, move, and position equipment weighing up to 30 pounds.

Bonus

Qualifications

  • ✓Strong familiarity with the Emerson DeltaV distributed control system, including system architecture, controllers, I/O, configuration, graphics, alarms, control modules, batch or sequence functions, and troubleshooting.
  • ✓Experience designing or supporting thermal-hydraulic, mechanical, chemical, high-temperature, high-pressure, or liquid-metal test systems.
  • ✓Experience working in nuclear, aerospace, defense, pharmaceutical, chemical processing, power generation, or another highly regulated industry.
  • ✓Familiarity with functional safety, safety instrumented systems, alarm management, or control-system cybersecurity practices.
  • ✓Familiarity with ASME NQA-1 requirements, particularly

requirements

related to design control, software control, test control, calibration, procurement, document control, and configuration management.

  • ✓Professional Engineer licensure, Engineer-in-Training certification, or relevant controls or automation certification.
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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

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 root-cause investigations, and implement technically sound corrective actions.
  • •Procurement and Supplier Oversight: Develop technical specifications, evaluate vendor proposals, review supplier submittals, support procurement, and verify that equipment and services meet technical and quality requirements.
  • •Design and Configuration Control: Manage design changes, software and hardware configurations, setpoints, drawings, calculations, and technical records in accordance with applicable engineering and quality requirements.

Competencies

  • •Instrumentation and Controls Engineering: Strong understanding of industrial measurement, process control, control-system architecture, signal conditioning, data acquisition, and equipment integration.
  • •Control System Knowledge: Practical experience with distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, human-machine interfaces, alarm management, control loops, industrial networks, and test-control hardware.
  • •Practical Engineering Judgment: Ability to develop systems that can be fabricated, installed, calibrated, operated, maintained, and modified safely and effectively.
  • •Analytical and Detail-Oriented: Able to evaluate system behavior, identify failure modes, resolve technical issu

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