General Application for Engineers

About Us

At Antares, our mission is driven by the conviction that a new era of energy abundance is key to elevating global living standards and meeting the needs of Earth’s changing climate. We envision a future where affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy is as accessible in remote communities on Earth as it is in missions to the Asteroid Belt. To achieve that goal, Antares will become the de facto experts in nuclear microreactor development, test, and operation by making the world’s first mass-produced rapidly-deployable reactors. Antares is set to achieve timely certification and production scale by first partnering with the U.S. Department of Defense, where we can unlock unique capabilities not possible with current energy solutions, by untethering austere and contested locations from fossil fuel logistics.

Formed in 2023, the Antares founding team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, and The Air Force. To date, they have raised over $8M in capital from top-tier investors, including Caffeinated Capital and Susa Ventures.

About the Role

We are continuing to hire talented engineers at Antares for everything from design and analysis, testing, mission management, software development, quality assurance, and operations. If you don’t see an open role that fits your experience but are passionate about creating the future of clean, abundant energy, apply to this general application! Please include a cover letter highlighting your experience, skill sets, and your areas of interest at Antares.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in an engineering discipline or physics.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for problem-solving, and desire to optimize modern nuclear design and operation.

• Strong project management skills and effective communication of technical concepts across multi-disciplinary teams.

• Experience in the defense, aerospace, or nuclear industry with a proven track record of high impact / ROI contributions.

• Leadership experience on a project or research team.

Additional Requirements

• Based in or ability to relocate to Los Angeles to work in person at our Redondo Beach office

• Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones

Culture

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.”

• Craftsmanship - 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.

• 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.