Staff-Principal Reliability Engineer

The role

This person will own quantitative reliability analysis for the Antares R1 microreactor. They will develop reliability models, establish targets, and work with various engineering teams to improve design reliability.

What you will do

• Own quantitative reliability analysis for the Antares R1 microreactor
• Establish reliability targets for reactor systems, subsystems, and critical components
• Translate top-level goals into measurable reliability requirements
• Develop and maintain reliability block diagrams, fault trees, and failure mode analyses
• Calculate and track key reliability metrics
• Identify components and failure modes with the greatest impact on capacity factor
• Work with engineering teams to develop reliability improvement plans
• Evaluate design alternatives and architecture trades
• Perform sensitivity and uncertainty analyses
• Develop reliability predictions using various data sources

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related technical field
• 8+ years of experience performing reliability, root cause analysis, failure analysis, statistical analysis, or similar quantitative engineering work on complex hardware systems
• Working knowledge of statistics, probability, failure modes, and reliability engineering fundamentals
• Ability to understand mechanical and electrical systems well enough to evaluate likely failure mechanisms and reliability risks
• Ability to analyze technical data, develop quantitative conclusions, and communicate recommendations to engineering teams

Nice to have

• Experience with reliability engineering in nuclear, aerospace, space, automotive, energy, defense, or other safety- or mission-critical hardware industries
• Experience with reliability block diagrams, fault trees, FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, MTBF/MTTR, probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), availability modeling, or reliability growth methods
• Experience translating system-level availability or capacity factor targets into subsystem and component reliability requirements
• Experience with or understanding "risk informed component classification and knowledge with 10CFR50.69"
• Familiarity with mechanical and electrical design, manufacturing processes, qualification testing, material capabilities/limitations, and common hardware failure mechanisms
• Experience using test, field, or production data to estimate failure rates and update reliability predictions
• Experience driving design changes or reliability improvement plans based on quantitative reliability analysis
• Familiarity with statistical tools or programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, Octave, R, Minitab, SAS, NCSS, or similar

Before you apply

• Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from

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.