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Human Factors Engineer

1 day, 3 hours ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
UX Researcher
Design and User Experience
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Oklo

Oklo

Oklo Inc. designs and deploys advanced fission power plants for clean, reliable, and affordable energy, utilizing innovative technology with inherent safety and nuclear waste as fuel.

Electric Utilities
51-250
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Description

  • Develop human factors engineering strategy, implementation plans, technical bases, and safety basis documentation.
  • Tailor NRC human factors guidance into a graded program for a used nuclear fuel recycling facility.
  • Evaluate human factors best practices for safety-significant personnel activities across operations, maintenance, inspections, material handling, and recovery work.
  • Lead operating experience reviews, functional requirements analyses, function allocation, task analyses, staffing analyses, and human action evaluations.
  • Translate safety and task analysis results into requirements for alarms, controls, procedures, training, staffing, PPE, and human error prevention and recovery features.
  • Define human-system interface requirements for control rooms, local stations, remote handling stations, gloveboxes, hot cells, alarm systems, displays, controls, and procedure systems.
  • Plan and execute verification and validation activities, including mockups, simulator exercises, walkdowns, tabletop exercises, and human-in-the-loop evaluations.
  • Prepare license application content, safety evaluation materials, readiness reviews, audit packages, responses to requests for additional information, and inspection support materials.
  • Work with engineering teams and vendors to integrate HFE requirements early and keep them aligned with design changes and safety assumptions.
  • Help establish human performance monitoring and continuous improvement approaches as the facility matures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in human factors engineering, engineering psychology, cognitive systems engineering, systems engineering, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience applying human factors engineering to nuclear reactor or fuel cycle technology.
  • Experience conducting or supporting HFE analyses such as operating experience review, function allocation, task analysis, human action evaluation, HSI design review, procedure and training input development, and staffing qualification analysis.
  • Familiarity with NRC or DOE expectations for human factors, safety analysis, licensing documentation, management measures, credited human actions, or safety-significant administrative controls.
  • Direct experience with NUREG-0711, NUREG-0700, NUREG-0800 Chapter 18, and NUREG-1520.
  • Strong technical writing skills for auditable, licensing-quality documentation.
  • Advanced degree or professional certification in human factors, ergonomics, cognitive systems engineering, systems safety, nuclear engineering, or a related field is preferred.
  • Experience with fuel cycle facilities, used nuclear fuel handling, reprocessing or recycling, hot cells, gloveboxes, remote handling, radiological work controls, and nuclear criticality safety is preferred.
  • Experience developing HFE program plans, HSI style guides, human action feasibility or reliability analyses, integrated validation plans, or responses to regulatory questions is preferred.
  • Experience with digital I&C, automation, alarm management, control room design, local control station design, simulator development, mockup testing, usability testing, or human reliability analysis is preferred.

Benefits

  • $135,000-$175,000 annual compensation.
  • Equity package.
  • Competitive pay.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Health insurance.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Flexible work hours.
  • FSA availability.

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