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Antares is building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications, with a mission to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. 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, Pentagon, Department of Energy, MIT, and national laboratories.
As a Staff Space Electrical Systems Engineer, you will own the system-level electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, and verification strategy for first-of-a-kind space nuclear power systems and their associated development hardware. Your scope spans power generation and conversion, power management and distribution, avionics, instrumentation and controls, communications, sensors, actuators, and electrical interfaces across the vehicle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the system-level electrical architecture for space nuclear power systems and development/test hardware
- Translating mission and vehicle requirements into electrical system, subsystem, and interface requirements
- Defining power buses, voltage levels, power quality, load allocations, grounding and bonding, isolation, protection, redundancy, and electrical fault-containment boundaries
- Developing electrical operating modes and transitions (startup, power generation, load changes, degraded operation, fault response, shutdown, ground-test configurations)
- Leading electrical architecture trades involving power distribution, bus segregation, redundancy, energy storage, avionics partitioning, fault tolerance, and system mass/efficiency
- Allocating requirements and defining interfaces across power conversion, avionics, instrumentation, controls, sensors, actuators, communications, and ground-support equipment
- Developing and maintaining electrical architecture diagrams, interface-control documents, power budgets, requirements, verification plans, and design-review material
- Reviewing subsystem and supplier designs for compliance and compatibility
- Defining electrical verification and qualification strategy from component testing through integrated-system and environmental testing
- Supporting hardware integration, system bring-up, troubleshooting, and anomaly resolution
- Performing or supporting FMEA, single-point-failure, reliability, hazard, and fault-tolerance analyses
- Providing electrical and I&C inputs to nuclear safety, DSA, and licensing activities
You will work closely with subsystem, integration, test, firmware, mechanical, thermal, reactor, and mission engineers to carry the architecture from early trades through hardware integration and verification.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls Engineering, or related technical discipline
- Approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated ownership of complex electrical systems
- Demonstrated ownership of electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, or verification at subsystem or vehicle level
- Strong fundamentals in power distribution, grounding and bonding, isolation, fault protection, instrumentation, signal interfaces, control systems, and electrical fault management
- Experience translating system requirements into electrical subsystem requirements, interface definitions, and verification methods
- Experience developing and reviewing architecture diagrams, schematics, wiring documentation, ICDs, electrical budgets, test plans, and verification evidence
- Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting complex electrical hardware
- Ability to lead cross-functional technical decisions involving electrical, firmware, software, controls, mechanical, thermal, test, and systems teams
PREFERRED:
- Master's degree or higher in Electrical/Controls Engineering
- Spacecraft, launch-vehicle, or other flight electrical-system architecture experience
- Spacecraft PMAD, high-power or high-voltage distribution, batteries, motor drives, or power electronics
- Avionics, embedded controls, instrumentation, sensors, actuators, and real-time control systems
- Radiation, thermal-vacuum, EMI/EMC, vibration, shock, qualification, and acceptance testing
- Grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, fault protection, and redundancy architecture
- FMEA, fault-tree, reliability, and single-point-failure analysis
- Supplier technical management and hardware qualification
- Nuclear, defense, or other regulated and configuration-controlled environment experience
Note: ITAR compliance required—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.
