Senior, Systems Engineer

About the role

Antares is seeking a Systems Engineer to ensure product quality from initial design through operation and decommissioning. This role involves close collaboration with various teams to integrate, validate, and verify requirements throughout the reactor's lifecycle. You will focus on the intricate details of product designs and establish processes to guarantee the reliability, safety, and performance of current and future designs.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Create and manage reactor requirements based on customer needs, safety rules, and design codes.
• Develop and implement methods for validating analysis techniques.
• Review and create guidelines to ensure adherence to ASME and other relevant design codes.
• Set up and oversee design review processes, including feedback documentation, action item management, and tracking unverified assumptions.
• Perform reliability analyses and risk assessments during product design and development.
• Work with design engineers to integrate reliability and quality into new product designs.
• Identify failure modes and mechanisms, then lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with various teams like design, analysis, manufacturing, and quality assurance to create scalable design processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or a related field).
• 4+ years of experience, preferably in a design or product development setting.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends when critical milestones require it.
• Willingness to travel to customer and mission-related locations as needed.
• Eligibility to obtain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Engineering.
• Strong understanding of reliability principles, methods, and testing.
• Familiarity with ASME codes and standards.
• Experience with FMEA, FMECA, or other failure mode analysis tools.
• Proficiency in reliability software and statistical analysis packages (e.g., Weibull analysis, Minitab).
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., nuclear, automotive, aerospace, medical devices).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical groups.

Skills & tools

• ASME codes
• FMEA
• FMECA
• Weibull analysis
• Minitab

Practical notes

Antares requires all applicants to be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. lawful permanent resident, a Refugee, or an Asylee, or eligible to obtain necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State, to comply with U.S. Government export regulations (ITAR). The facility is a 322,000 square foot space in Torrance, CA, designed for collaboration, R&D, and production.

About the company

Antares is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It carries the Bayer designation Alpha Scorpii. The star is often called the heart of the scorpion because it sits near the center of the constellation flanked by Sigma Scorpii and Tau Scorpii. It shines with a distinct reddish color visible to the naked eye. Antares is a slow irregular variable star. Its apparent visual magnitude ranges from +0.6 down to +1.6. It ranks on average as the fifteenth brightest star in the night sky. The star is the most luminous and evolved member of the Scorpius-Centaurus association. This is the nearest OB association to the Sun. Antares lies about 170 parsecs or 550 light years from Earth. It sits at the rim of the Upper Scorpius subgroup and illuminates the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in the foreground. The star is classified as spectral type M1.5Iab-Ib. It is a red supergiant and one of the largest stars visible without a telescope. If placed at the center of the Solar System its surface would extend out to the asteroid belt. Its mass is calculated between 13 and 16 times that of the Sun. Antares appears single to the eye but is actually a binary system. The components are named Alpha Scorpii A and Alpha Scorpii B. The primary is the red supergiant. The companion is a hot main sequence star of magnitude 5.5. Their projected separation is about 529 astronomical units. The name Antares comes from Ancient Greek meaning rival to Ares. This refers to its reddish hue which resembles the planet Mars.