Senior Electrical Engineer
Antares
About Us
At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We’re fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we’re building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.
Formed in 2023, the Antares team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, The Air Force, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, Ultra Safe Nuclear, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Antares has raised over $39M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $4M in government funding.
About the Team
As the Senior Electrical Engineer, you will guide architecture of Power distribution, instrumentation & controls, and hardware-based control systems for our reactor design. You will own system level electrical architecting, R&D test, and Electrical integration work, and work together with our Licensing team on hardware regulatory strategy to ensure our multi-platform control systems and electrical networks meet compliance milestones under DOE and NRC and other regulatory specific specifications.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Own Electrical system level architecture of our Advanced Nuclear Reactor.
Lead control module systems design and integration of systems.
Collaborate with electrical engineering teams to design distribution systems, control logic, and instrumentation for reactor modules.
Provide quick-turn feedback on wiring diagrams, control panel specs, and safety-related instrumentation.
Evaluate multi-OS or embedded control environments for real-time signal acquisition, ensuring minimal downtime or interference.
Develop or contribute to documents focusing on I&C classification, electrical system reliability, and compliance with nuclear codes or standards (e.g., IEEE/IEC standards for safety controls).
Coordinate with regulators regarding design basis for instrumentation loops, including fail-safe architecture or redundancy.
Own the relevant DSA inputs that address electrical system hazards or potential single-point failures.
Participate in each formal design review cycle, ensuring electrical/I&C sections are complete, accurate, and documented.
Support the hazard analysis process, identifying possible electrical or instrumentation failure modes and how they’re mitigated.
Verify that the final design meets or exceeds relevant standards for safety-class or safety-significant equipment.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years in designing or analyzing electrical and/or instrumentation systems, ideally in nuclear, aerospace, energy, or industrial automation.
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Familiarity with I&C requirements for regulated environments, including wiring codes, control logic documentation, and safety classification.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
Master’s degree in Electrical/Controls Engineering.
Prior experience in nuclear or defense sectors with knowledge of relevant I&C codes (IEEE 379, IEEE 497, etc.).
Working knowledge of GDE-987 design review steps and DOE-1189 hazards classification.
Experience with advanced control system architecture or SCADA in high-reliability contexts (aviation, nuclear, or automotive safety).
Strong communication skills to explain complex control loops and design rationales to both engineers and regulators.
Additional Requirements:
Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
Culture
At Antares, we like to specifically tie each role to our founding document’s set of values–here are the top five cultural values we think you should believe at your core to be successful:
Think in Systems - Energy and Defense are complex ecosystems with numerous stakeholders with competing priorities, conflicting policies, perverse incentives, and emergent and path-dependent properties. First principles thinking alone is insufficient. Think probabilistically and then take action. “If you want to be certain, then you are apt to be obsolete.” Over-optimizing the components often degrades the system
Obsess over the End User - The customer and end user are often not the same. We will never build globally competitive commercial products if we lose sight of our end users and their entire interaction with the product life cycle
Be Unconstrained by Convention - Our only limits are the laws of physics. Many, even experts, will say what we are working on is impossible. They said the same about SpaceX reusing rockets. Generationally impactful companies, by definition, must accomplish the seemingly impossible. If it were easy, it would have already been done. Never shy away from a solution because it has never been tried before, and never choose to do something because that's “how it's always been done”
Craftsmen - We also focus on the inputs. We aspire to high-quality engineering for its own sake. As such, we invest in personal growth, learning, and developing a long-term career path for exceptional individual contributors. We embrace a beginner’s mindset, share knowledge, and never condescend the curious
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Loyally Collaborative - Team > Self. We win together. There is nothing more precious than a high-performing team
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
