Senior/Staff Space Systems Electrical Engineer

The role

You will own the system-level electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, and verification strategy for space nuclear power systems and development hardware. Your scope includes power generation, management, distribution, avionics, and electrical interfaces across the vehicle.

What you will do

• Own the system-level electrical architecture for space nuclear power systems and associated hardware.
• Translate mission and vehicle requirements into electrical system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
• Define power buses, voltage levels, power quality, load allocations, grounding, and protection.
• Develop electrical operating modes and transitions.
• Lead electrical architecture trades involving power distribution, redundancy, and system mass.
• Allocate requirements and define interfaces across various electrical and control systems.
• Develop and maintain electrical architecture diagrams, power budgets, and verification plans.
• Review subsystem and supplier designs for compliance.
• Define the electrical verification and qualification strategy.
• Support hardware integration, system bring-up, and troubleshooting.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of complex electrical systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, or verification at the subsystem or vehicle level.
• Strong fundamentals in power distribution, grounding and bonding, isolation, fault protection, instrumentation, signal interfaces, control systems, and electrical fault management.
• Experience translating system requirements into electrical subsystem requirements, interface definitions, and verification methods.
• Experience developing and reviewing architecture diagrams, schematics, wiring documentation, ICDs, electrical budgets, test plans, and verification evidence.
• Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting complex electrical hardware.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical decisions involving electrical, firmware, software, controls, mechanical, thermal, test, and systems teams.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or higher in Electrical/Controls Engineering.
• Spacecraft, launch-vehicle, or other flight electrical-system architecture.
• Spacecraft PMAD, high-power or high-voltage distribution, batteries, motor drives, or power electronics.
• Avionics, embedded controls, instrumentation, sensors, actuators, and real-time control systems.
• Radiation, thermal-vacuum, EMI/EMC, vibration, shock, qualification, and acceptance testing.
• Grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, fault protection, and redundancy architecture.
• FMEA, fault-tree, reliability, and single-point-failure analysis.
• Supplier technical management and hardware qualification.
• Nuclear, defense, or another regulated and configuration-controlled environment.

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• 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

About the company

Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space use. The team includes members from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, and various national laboratories.