CAD/PLM Administrator - SolidWorks

Join us in pioneering the next generation of nuclear reactors! You will work closely with designers, engineers, and engineering infrastructure teams to stand up and support the CAD and PLM systems that enable Oklo’s advanced reactor design and deployment. This role sits at the intersection of design and infrastructure, helping engineers move faster while maintaining clean, reliable, and scalable design data. Come be a part of powering the future with advanced fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.

Position Description

This role is focused on standing up, configuring, and supporting our SolidWorks based CAD environment and associated PLM infrastructure, ensuring designers can be productive quickly while laying the groundwork for scalable, well managed engineering data. You will support a variety of internal “customers” and use tooling, automation, and process to ensure that engineering teams can do their jobs effectively.

Oklo is a fast growing engineering organization continuing to mature and scale its CAD and PLM capabilities. You will have the opportunity to help shape how design tools, data management, and engineering workflows operate at Oklo as we standardize and expand these systems to support the company’s long term engineering needs. A nuclear background is not required, but curiosity, adaptability, and a bias toward execution are essential in this role.

Specific responsibilities may include:

Members supporting Oklo’s engineering tooling help enable design and data workflows across disciplines. In this role, you might:

• Install, configure, and maintain SolidWorks and supporting infrastructure across local Windows workstations, virtual desktop environments, and centralized server backends.
• Stand up and administer PLM and PDM systems such as SolidWorks PDM Professional and SolidWorks Manage (or equivalent enterprise PLM tools), including workflows, permissions, item lifecycles, and change states.
• Support designers and engineers through onboarding, troubleshooting, and day to day CAD and PLM issues.
• Configure and maintain revision control, access control, and data integrity for CAD and engineering artifacts.
• Support CAD data migration, system transitions, or coexistence with legacy tools where needed.
• Develop lightweight automation, scripts, or utilities to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
• Monitor system health and performance across client machines, virtual desktop infrastructure, and backend services, diagnosing and resolving issues as they arise.
• Document configurations, workflows, and best practices for both users and administrators.
• Collaborate across engineering, IT, QA, and manufacturing teams, balancing competing priorities and driving projects forward independently in the face of ambiguity.

Minimum Qualifications:

We would like to see a clear track record of the following, based on your past roles and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience.
• A minimum of three years of experience supporting CAD, PDM, or PLM systems in a production environment.
• Hands on experience administering SolidWorks or similar mechanical CAD platforms.
• Experience with PLM or PDM concepts including revision control, access management, workflows, and lifecycle states.
• Comfort working in Windows based enterprise environments, including physical workstations and virtual desktop infrastructure, and coordinating with IT infrastructure teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with designers and engineers.
• Curiosity and interest in advanced engineering, complex systems, and clean energy technologies.

Bonus Qualifications

Prior experience with our tools is helpful, but not required:

• Direct experience with SolidWorks PDM Professional and or SolidWorks Manage.
• Experience administering ENOVIA, Teamcenter, Windchill, or similar enterprise PLM systems.
• Experience standing up CAD or PLM systems from scratch or during a tool transition.
• Scripting or automation experience using Python, PowerShell, batch, or APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud hosted or on premises CAD and PLM environments, including virtualized desktop solutions.
• Experience working in regulated, compliance conscious, or hardware focused engineering organizations.
• Experience working as a member of a distributed, remote team.

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 travel requirements:

Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings.

About Oklo compensation: $100,000-$160,000

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

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho 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.

#CHOP: Oklo’s Values
Collaboration: We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes.
Humility: We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world. We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition.
Ownership: We take pride in what we do and how we do it. We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through  to completion. We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
Pathfinding: We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.