Licensing Safety Basis Engineer

About Us

At Antares our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. Were fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military solve the climate crisis elevate global living standards and expand humanitys presence in outer space. To achieve our mission were building mass-producible inherently safe deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially underwater and in space.

Formed in 2023 the Antares team hails from SpaceX The White House MIT Rigetti Computing The Air Force General Atomics Relativity Space Ursa Major and National Laboratories like Los Alamos Idaho and Oak Ridge. Antares has raised over $130M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding.

About the Team

As a key Licensing and Regulatory team member you will provide senior-level licensing support critical to successful new reactor experiments and demonstrations leading to real-world microreactor operations. This opportunity to bring advanced reactors to reality will require you to work with our teams to ensure nuclear safety and licensing components are completed to further the development and deployment of Antares systems to meet the needs of our end-users.

The ideal candidate will have a substantial regulatory background ideally with DOE NRC or DOD and a strong interest in bringing advanced reactors into reality.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepare edit and review regulatory submittals in support of licensing efforts.

• Communicate and negotiate complex regulatory topics.

• Develop and manage inputs to regulatory applications and other legal processes for obtaining licenses and permits.

• Apply authoring reviewing editing document planning and organizational skills for preparation of large and complex nuclear license applications.

• Provide technical regulatory guidance to resolve licensing development review and implementation processes.

• Oversee and support licensing programs and schedules for various regulatory engagements and actions.

• Provide support for licensing & regulatory meetings.

• Develop and support submittal of project licensing documents and ensure that licensing documents are complete accurate and in compliance with the licensing strategy commitments and statutory requirements in all material respects.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering

• 3 years of relevant licensing experience

• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical documents and presentations

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering

• Masters or PhD degree in Engineering

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills enthusiasm for problem-solving and desire to optimize modern nuclear design and operation

• Excellent written visual and verbal communication skills

• Excellent negotiation conflict resolution and leadership skills

• Must be a strong team player with the ability to develop effective relationships with internal and external customers

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones

• Ability to travel to regulatory locations as needed

• Ability to obtain a Q or Top Secret clearance is preferred

Location

• We are located in Torrance CA in a 145000 square foot brand new facility featuring large open spaces for team collaboration R&D and production as well as easy access to the 405 105 and 110 freeways. Our facility is in the heart of Los Angeles vibrant emerging tech ecosystem alongside many other high growth startups and enterprises.

Culture

At Antares we like to specifically tie each role to our founding documents set of valueshere are the top five cultural values we think you should believe at your core to be successful:

• Think in Systems - Energy and Defense are complex ecosystems with numerous stakeholders with competing priorities conflicting policies perverse incentives and emergent and path-dependent properties. First principles thinking alone is insufficient. Think probabilistically and then take action. If you want to be certain then you are apt to be obsolete. Over-optimizing the components often degrades the system

• Obsess over the End User - The customer and end user are often not the same. We will never build globally competitive commercial products if we lose sight of our end users and their entire interaction with the product life cycle

• Be Unconstrained by Convention - Our only limits are the laws of physics. Many even experts will say what we are working on is impossible. They said the same about SpaceX reusing rockets. Generationally impactful companies by definition must accomplish the seemingly impossible. If it were easy it would have already been done. Never shy away from a solution because it has never been tried before and never choose to do something because thats how its always been done

• Go Where the Work Is - Never miss a chance to meet a customer user or stakeholder face to face even if that means hopping on a plane. If you cant make it find a teammate who can channel your intentions and go in your place. Deep work can be done from anywhere but we believe teams are built in person and aim to maximize our time together

• Operate in the Grey - Embrace nuance in pursuit of truth. Question every fundamental assumption

Equal Opportunity

Antares is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based solely on merit competence and qualifications without regard to race color religion gender national origin/ethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (aka green card holder) (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158 or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Required Experience:

IC