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 an early member of the Antares supply chain team, you will define and execute the strategic roadmap required for the company to successfully iterate through prototyping and into full-rate production. This will include identifying, qualifying, and developing suppliers across all commodities, proactively maturing fragile or nonexistent supply chains, interfacing with engineering teams to ensure design for manufacturability, and creating the processes and systems necessary to scale our business. As an early-stage company, you will also have the opportunity to influence many other areas outside of supply chain, including business operations, logistics, finance, and others.

The ideal candidate will be able to execute in an ambiguous environment, with the ability to efficiently balance many different priorities - you will be part of a small team tackling significant and complicated challenges, and will have a key role in contributing to the success of the company both in the short and long term.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Define the initial strategic roadmap for all commodities including: machined components, electrical and controls, shielding, thermal management, pressure vessels, fuel, and others

• Identify and onboard suppliers across all commodities to develop a mature supply base capable of supporting both prototyping and eventually full-rate production

• Engage with responsible and manufacturing engineering teams to review drawings and provide feedback in collaboration with suppliers on design for manufacturing

• Coordinate closely with quality teams to ensure compliance with the Antares quality program regarding supplier onboarding, quality and documentation requirements, addressing nonconformances, and developing supply chain related procedures

• Develop a robust logistics supply base including local couriers, domestic carriers, freight forwarders, and transportation for specialty materials

• Create the foundational processes and related systems required to evolve the business, focusing on areas such as supply chain planning, procurement, supplier onboarding, accounts payable, materials management, shipping and receiving, and others

• Develop performance metrics and reporting to identify, communicate, and manage critical path items

• Execute on near-term actions related to prototyping and development hardware to guarantee schedules for engineering milestones

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, math or physics

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain management, planning, procurement, supplier development, or supplier quality

• Proficiency in supply chain related systems, including MRP and ERP

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in supply chain management for complex systems and assemblies

• 3+ years of experience in the aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductor, or energy industries

• Demonstrated track record of managing a diversity of commodities and suppliers

• Broad experience across all supply chain functions, including planning, procurement, supplier development, supplier quality, and logistics

• Proven success in a start-up environment or similar, with the ability to manage ambiguity and wear many different hats

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.

• 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.