Supply Chain Specialist

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 support near-term prototyping and engineering milestones to validate our reactor design and prepare for full-rate production. This will include planning and procurement across a broad range of commodities, rapid execution to deliver on compressed schedules, and commercial negotiations to ensure the optimal terms for Antares. You will interface with many functions and teams across engineering and production, and will be integral to enabling the company to meet its lofty objectives.

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 and Responsibilities:

• Own the planning and procurement for various commodities, ensuring the on-time delivery of quality components to meet prototyping and engineering milestones

• Support both direct and indirect procurement activities as the business scales its internal manufacturing capabilities, conducting make-versus-buy analyses where appropriate

• Manage relationships with suppliers, including negotiating commercial terms, evaluating suppliers for performance, and cultivating a long-term partnership with preferred vendors

• Develop, measure, and communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) for your commodities, ensuring the business is aware of key risks and mitigations

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related fields AND 1+ year of experience in a manufacturing or supply chain role OR 3+ years of experience in a manufacturing or supply chain role

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• 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.