Senior Systems Engineer

The role

The Systems Engineer owns product quality from design through operation and decommissioning. This person works with cross functional organizations to ensure requirements are incorporated, validated, and verified for the reactor.

What you will do

• Develop and manage requirements for all reactors based on customer specifications, safety regulations, and design and construction codes.
• Develop and implement processes for validating analysis methodologies.
• Review and develop guidance and requirements to ensure compliance with ASME and other applicable design codes.
• Establish and manage processes for design reviews, including documenting feedback, managing open actions, and tracking unverified assumptions.
• Conduct reliability analyses and risk assessments during product design and development phases.
• Collaborate with design engineers to incorporate reliability and quality considerations into new product designs.
• Identify failure modes and mechanisms, and drive root-cause analyses and corrective action plans.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to establish scalable design processes.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or related discipline).
• 4+ years of experience.
• Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
• Ability to travel to customer and mission-relevant locations as needed
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of reliability principles, methodologies, and testing techniques.
• Familiarity with ASME codes and standards.
• Familiarity with FMEA, FMECA, or other failure mode analysis tools.
• Proficiency in reliability software tools and statistical analysis packages (e.g., Weibull analysis, Minitab).
• Experience working within regulated industries (e.g., nuclear, automotive, aerospace, medical devices) is desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.

Before you apply

• Ability to obtain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.
• 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.