Manufacturing Engineer - Supply Chain

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.

Formed in 2023, the Antares team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, The Air Force, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, Ultra Safe Nuclear, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Antares has raised over $39M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $4M in government funding.

About the Team

As an early member of the Antares supply chain team, you will own components and sub-assemblies across a variety of commodities to successfully iterate through prototyping and into full-rate production. This will include identifying, qualifying, and developing suppliers, proactively maturing fragile or nonexistent supply chains, interfacing with responsible engineers to ensure design for manufacturability, and creating the processes and systems necessary to scale our business.

The ideal candidate will be able to execute in an ambiguous environment, with the ability to efficiently balance many different priorities - you will be part of a small team tackling significant and complicated challenges, and will have a key role in contributing to the success of the company both in the short and long term.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Own the supply chain strategy for multiple components and sub-assemblies across a variety of commodities such as machined components, electronics and controls, shielding, thermal management, pressure vessels, fuel, and others

• Identify and onboard suppliers across various commodities to develop a mature supply base capable of supporting both prototyping and eventually full-rate production

• Engage with responsible engineers to review drawings and provide feedback in collaboration with suppliers on design for manufacturing

• Coordinate closely with quality teams to ensure compliance with the Antares quality program regarding supplier onboarding, quality and documentation requirements, addressing nonconformances, and developing supply chain related procedures

• Execute on near-term actions related to prototyping and development hardware to guarantee schedules for engineering milestones

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, math, physics, or similar technical discipline

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years of experience in supply chain management for complex systems and assemblies

• 2+ years of experience in the aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductor, or energy industries

• Proven success in a start-up environment or similar, with the ability to manage ambiguity and wear many different hats

Additional Requirements:

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

Location

• We are located in Torrance, CA in a 145,000 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 document’s set of values–here 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 that's “how it's always been done.”

• Craftsmen - We also focus on the inputs. We aspire to high-quality engineering for its own sake. As such, we invest in personal growth, learning, and developing a long-term career path for exceptional individual contributors. We embrace a beginner’s mindset, share knowledge, and never condescend the curious.

• Loyally Collaborative - Team > Self. We win together. There is nothing more precious than a high-performing team.

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.