Staff Turbomachinery Design Engineer

The role

You will own turbomachinery hardware for Antares nuclear reactors from concept through development, qualification, and production. You will coordinate analysis, design, manufacturing, test, and supplier activities to deliver hardware that meets program requirements and schedule.

What you will do

• Own new and existing turbomachinery hardware through development and production.
• Lead the design, analysis, build, and test of turbomachinery for Antares nuclear reactors.
• Translate system requirements into turbomachinery requirements, interfaces, and verification plans.
• Coordinate work across aerodynamics, mechanical design, structures, rotordynamics, bearings, thermal analysis, manufacturing, and test.
• Define development and test plans that retire the highest technical risks early.
• Work closely with external suppliers and Antares manufacturing, test, and quality engineers.
• Investigate issues during manufacturing and test, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Improve existing designs to increase reliability, manufacturability, reduce cost and lead time.
• Lead design reviews and communicate technical status, risks, and decisions to leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
• 7+ years of full-cycle design engineering experience.
• Experience releasing production-intent mechanical drawings and models for fabrication, including GD&T and tolerance stack-up.
• Working knowledge of turbomachinery and high-speed rotating machinery.
• Experience making engineering tradeoffs involving performance, manufacturability, cost, risk, and schedule.
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex engineering problems, prioritize work, and drive technical issues to closure.
• Ability to coordinate and delegate technical work while maintaining ownership of the complete hardware.
• Flexibility to support hardware development milestones including occasional weekend or long-hour pushes.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in design and ownership of turbomachinery.
• Experience serving as a responsible engineer, design owner, technical lead, or equivalent role for complex hardware.
• Experience working directly with suppliers and manufacturing teams to resolve design and production issues.
• Experience in a demanding, fast-paced development environment.
• Proficiency with NX for CAD design, drafting, and GD&T.
• Proficiency with ANSYS Mechanical and CFX.

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
• Leveling is determined during the interviews and can change over time.

About the company

Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors to make clean energy abundant. The team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, and other organizations.