Manufacturing Engineer II-Senior, Assembly & Integration
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.
The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
About the team
We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer to take lead on the assembly of our full scale, full power reactor on-site at Antares Prime. This person would work with design, quality, supply chain, and many other teams to provide DFM to design, define build processes, procure capital equipment and tooling, execute development builds, and ultimately launch production of the R1 nuclear reactor.
Role & Responsibilities
- Own manufacturing process development for major reactor assemblies and subsystems
from engineering release through build, inspection, test, and final integration.
- Develop detailed assembly and manufacturing process flows, including shop floor
layouts
- Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, nuclear, systems, materials, quality, and test
engineers to ensure designs are manufacturable, inspectable, and testable.
- Develop and mature tooling, fixtures, handling equipment, and specialized
manufacturing equipment required to build reactor hardware.
- Establish robust processes for first-of-a-kind hardware, balancing immediate prototype
needs wi...