Senior/Staff Electrical Systems Engineer

The role

This role owns the electrical requirements for the reactor's Instrumentation and Controls system. You will establish technical baselines for signal accuracy, response time, and system integration to support software, testing, and licensing.

What you will do

• Create the requirement baseline for regulatory, functional, performance, safety, and concept-of-operations requirements.
• Own and maintain hardware and software interface control documents.
• Drive the I&C Design FMEA and build the corresponding test plan.
• Create design validation and qualification plans and partner with the test team.
• Support the licensing case by producing and defending I&C content in safety analysis and design documents.
• Own site certification for non-listed components through field evaluation with an NRTL.
• Support grid interconnection as the electrical technical lead.
• Own the electrical requirements conversation with customers to capture load and interface requirements.
• Bridge controls software and physical hardware by identifying edge cases.
• Influence design through cross-functional design reviews.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years in electrical or I&C systems engineering, including ownership of a requirement baseline through verification
• Demonstrated experience writing decomposed, verifiable requirements with measurable acceptance criteria
• Demonstrated experience leading FMEA or equivalent structured reliability analysis
• Experience authoring validation and qualification plans and working with a test organization
• Experience defining and maintaining hardware and software interface control documents
• Experience delivering hardware under a formal quality program, NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, AS9100, IEC 61508, or comparable

Nice to have

• Experience in Nuclear or a similarly regulated environment (aerospace, defense, medical device, etc.)
• Direct experience with nuclear I&C standards and guidance, IEEE 603, IEEE 7-4.3.2, IEEE 323, IEEE 344, IEEE 384, IEEE 379, and the Chapter 7 expectations in NUREG-0800
• Experience supporting a licensing submittal to the NRC or a DOE authorization basis
• Familiarity with diversity and defense-in-depth analysis, common cause failure analysis, and single failure criterion arguments
• Experience with NRTL field evaluation or field labeling of non-listed equipment (NFPA 791, NEC 110.3) and working with an AHJ
• Functional safety background, IEC 61508, 61511, or 61513
• Experience with requirements management and MBSE tooling (DOORS, Jama, Polarion, Cameo/SysML)
• Human factors or alarm management exposure, NUREG-0711, ISA 18.2

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.