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Salary: USD 140,000 - 225,000 / annual
Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications. The company's mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt, with a focus on advanced nuclear energy for military, climate, and space exploration. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital and holds hundreds of millions in contracts with military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
You will lead manufacturing process development for major reactor assemblies and subsystems, taking hardware from engineering release through build, inspection, test, and final integration. You'll own the assembly of the full-scale, full-power R1 reactor on-site at Antares Prime, working across design, quality, supply chain, and other teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing detailed assembly and manufacturing process flows, including shop floor layouts
- Partnering with mechanical, electrical, nuclear, systems, materials, quality, and test engineers to ensure designs are manufacturable, inspectable, and testable
- Developing and maturing tooling, fixtures, handling equipment, and specialized manufacturing equipment
- Establishing robust processes for first-of-a-kind hardware while building toward scalable production
- Working directly with manufacturing technicians and operators to troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvement
- Creating and maintaining manufacturing bills of material (mBOMs), process plans, and configuration-controlled documentation
- Participating in manufacturing readiness reviews, design reviews, production readiness reviews, and hardware build reviews
- Mentoring junior and mid-level manufacturing engineers
You'll operate in a fast-paced, highly technical environment where you can influence design decisions through DFM/DFA expertise and drive large, cross-functional projects with significant impact.
REQUIREMENTS:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Aerospace, Nuclear, or related engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience developing and implementing manufacturing processes for complex hardware
- Demonstrated experience taking hardware from engineering design through prototype, development, qualification, and production
- Extensive experience creating manufacturing documentation (work instructions, process specifications, assembly procedures, inspection plans, test procedures)
- Strong understanding of GD&T, tolerance analysis, engineering drawings, and configuration management
- Experience working directly with technicians, machinists, fabricators, inspectors, and production personnel
- Proven ability to troubleshoot manufacturing problems and drive root cause analysis and corrective action
- Strong understanding of DFM/DFA principles and ability to influence design decisions
- Experience developing or implementing manufacturing tooling, fixtures, and specialized equipment
- Ability to work effectively across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, test, and operations
- Strong technical communication skills and ability to document complex processes
- Ability to operate independently in fast-paced, highly technical, ambiguous environment with exceptional attention to detail
- Demonstrated ownership of large, technically complex projects with significant cross-functional impact
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience developing and implementing manufacturing processes for complex hardware
- Experience with aerospace or nuclear reactor components, pressure vessels, primary/secondary systems, fuel systems, thermal systems, or reactor instrumentation and controls
- Experience developing manufacturing processes subject to nuclear quality assurance requirements or other rigorous quality/regulatory frameworks
- Working knowledge of ASME Section III, NQA-1, or comparable nuclear quality requirements
- Experience with process qualification and validation for special processes
- Experience with PFMEA, process capability studies, statistical process control, value-stream mapping, and capacity analysis
- Experience developing manufacturing processes for safety-significant or safety-critical hardware
- Experience transitioning low-volume prototype hardware into repeatable production
- Familiarity with manufacturing execution systems, ERP/MRP systems, PLM systems, and digital work-instruction platforms
- Experience in environments where configuration control, traceability, material control, and process documentation are critical
ITAR REQUIREMENT: Applicant must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
