Turbomachinery 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.

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 Role
As a Turbomachinery Engineer you will be a key member of the Reactor Hardware Team working to design and build turbomachinery for Antares nuclear reactors. You will own turbomachinery components through their full design lifecycle as a subject matter expert and work in close collaboration with manufacturing test and quality engineers.

The ideal candidate will have expert level knowledge in one or more areas of turbomachinery design such as compressor or turbine aerodynamics rotordynamics and bearings secondary flows creep and fatigue analysis or other related areas and proven experience taking designs from clean sheet to production.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design analyze build and test turbomachinery for Antares nuclear reactors.

• Develop turbomachinery components from concept through manufacturing and qualification testing.

• Prepare engineering documentation that supports design manufacturing and testing.

• Work with manufacturing test and quality engineers to develop hardware.

• Investigate turbomachinery issues during development and qualification testing identify root causes and implement corrective actions.

• Improve turbomachinery designs to reduce cost improve manufacturability and reduce lead time.

• Support design reviews and technical decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or Physics.

• 5 years of experience in the design of turbomachinery with expertise in one or more key areas of turbomachinery design such as

  • Turbomachinery sizing layout and mechanical design

  • Compressor or Turbine Aerodynamics

  • Turbomachinery structural and life analysis

  • Bearings and Rotordynamics

  • Secondary flows and axial thrust

  • Mechanical seals

• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information clearly.

• Experience making engineering tradeoffs involving performance manufacturability cost and schedule.

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

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Masters degree in Engineering or Physics.

• 7 years of professional experience in the design of turbomachinery.

• Proficiency with NX for CAD design drafting and GD&T.

• Proficiency with ANSYS Mechanical CFX BladeGen and TurboGrid.

• Experience supporting hardware through development qualification and production.

• Experience leading technical projects and coordinating work across engineering disciplines.

Additional Requirements:

Flexibility to support hardware development milestonesincluding occasional weekend or long-hour pushes.

Salary Range:

Senior Turbomachinery Engineer - $140000 - $185000

Staff Turbomachinery Engineer - $155000 - $220000

Leveling is determined during the interviews and can change over time.

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.

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