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Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications. The company has raised over $600M in venture capital and holds hundreds of millions in contracts with military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy. The team includes veterans from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, and national laboratories.
You will own and expand the control software for a power conversion system (PCS), evolving an existing Simulink implementation into a robust real-time application supporting increasingly complex system behavior and operational requirements. This is a hands-on, model-based controls and embedded-software role that behaves more like a complex powertrain control system than a conventional industrial controller, with multiple operating states, fast-changing conditions, extensive sensing and diagnostics, fault management, and degraded modes.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own the architecture, development, validation, deployment, and long-term health of the PCS control application
- Develop, modify, and maintain model-based application software using MATLAB, Simulink, and Stateflow
- Establish and maintain a scalable Simulink architecture with reusable subsystems, libraries, and clearly defined signals, parameters, and interfaces
- Define execution rates, scheduling, I/O abstraction, and deterministic real-time behavior
- Design and tune closed-loop controls for power conversion and related thermal, electrical, or mechanical processes
- Develop controls including operating modes, sequencing, state machines, interlocks, limits, and transition logic
- Expand existing controls to support greater system complexity, additional operating modes, and degraded operation
- Perform mathematical modeling, simulation, and analysis of stability, dynamic response, operating limits, and transient/steady-state behavior
- Integrate sensor-plausibility capabilities and develop diagnostics for failed, degrading, or implausible sensors
- Define fault responses, degraded operating behavior, and safe-state actions
- Develop and execute Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, and Hardware-in-the-Loop testing
- Instrument models and analyze simulation, bench, system-test, and logged operational data
- Support model-based code generation, build, deployment, and integration on real-time PCS hardware
- Troubleshoot control behavior during simulation, commissioning, test, and system operation
- Document control architecture, algorithms, interfaces, assumptions, calibration logic, and validation results
- Support software for both test activities and Mark-1 operation
You will work across electrical, mechanical, systems, software, and test teams to simulate, validate, deploy, calibrate, and troubleshoot the control system.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying model-based embedded controls for automotive powertrain, motorsport, propulsion, aerospace, or similarly demanding real-time systems
- Strong MATLAB and Simulink experience, including architecture and maintenance of production-scale models and model-based code-generation workflows
- Experience taking controls from simulation through Model-in-the-Loop / Software-in-the-Loop, Hardware-in-the-Loop or bench testing, and deployment onto real-time embedded hardware
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Direct experience with McLaren Applied / Motion Applied control systems and tooling, including TAG ECUs, vTAG, ATLAS, or related Simulink-based application-development workflows
- Strong understanding of control theory, dynamic systems, feedback-control design, diagnostics, and state-based supervisory logic
- Ability to take ownership of existing controls implementation and work effectively across controls, electrical, mechanical, software, systems, and test disciplines
- Experience developing powertrain, hybrid, energy-management, or other embedded controls in professional motorsport, high-performance automotive, or aerospace programs
- Experience with Simulink Coder, Embedded Coder, Stateflow, or comparable production model-based code-generation toolchains
- Experience with multi-rate models, deterministic execution, task scheduling, model references and libraries, and parameter or calibration management
- Experience with calibration, instrumentation, telemetry, data logging, and test workflows common to automotive, motorsport, or aerospace controls development
- Experience with embedded communications and vehicle networks such as CAN, and with integrating sensors, actuators, and real-time I/O
- Experience developing sensor plausibility checks, diagnostics, fault detection, safe-state behavior, and degraded operating modes
- Experience analyzing noisy, drifting, failed, or otherwise unreliable signals involving temperature, voltage, current, pressure, flow, speed, or torque measurements
- Familiarity with version control, model configuration management, requirements traceability, automated testing, and disciplined embedded-software development practices
ITAR REQUIREMENT: Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
