Electrical Engineer I/II

The role

You will contribute to the architecture, design, testing, and integration of instrumentation and control and power distribution systems for advanced nuclear microreactors. You will work with systems, mechanical, software, licensing, and test teams to ensure electrical designs meet performance, safety, and regulatory requirements.

What you will do

• Design electrical systems for reactor instrumentation, control, and power distribution.
• Develop schematics, wiring diagrams, and interface definitions.
• Review and provide feedback on schematics, wiring diagrams, harnesses, and control panel designs.
• Participate in design reviews.
• Assist with hazard analysis to identify electrical or instrumentation failure modes and mitigations.
• Support test activities including bench testing, HIL/HITL, and integration campaigns.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with systems, mechanical, software, and licensing teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Experience designing, analyzing, or integrating electrical systems.
• Strong grasp of electrical fundamentals, including DC and AC circuits, impedance, and transient behavior.
• Ability to create, read, and review electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Familiarity with electrical design, simulation, or PCB layout tools.
• Hands-on experience with lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and signal generators.
• Ability to reason about failure modes and safe states in electrical or control systems.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous hardware development environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience working in regulated or safety-critical environments (nuclear, aerospace, defense, maritime, or industrial).
• Understanding of fail-safe design, redundancy, voting logic, or diversity in control systems.
• Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Exposure to HIL/HITL testing, automated test frameworks, or data acquisition platforms.
• Familiarity with relevant codes, standards, or guidance (e.g., IEEE, IEC, DOE nuclear standards).
• Familiarity with GDE-987 processes or similar hardware qualification paths.
• Experience contributing to formal design reviews, hazard analyses, or configuration-controlled documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of hardware problems, work through ambiguity, and drive issues to closure.

About the company

Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors to make clean energy abundant. The team includes members from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, and various National Laboratories.