Antares Pharma

Antares Pharma

Staff Mission Manager

Los Angeles · Staff+

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About the role

  • This is a technical leadership role that requires genuine engagement with engineering decisions.
  • The right person for this job can read a schedule and know what's actually at risk, ask the question that surfaces a missing dependency before it becomes a slip, and hold a room of engineers and government customers accountable to the same plan.
  • If you thrive at the intersection of rigorous technical execution and complex stakeholder environments, and you want your work to matter at a historic scale, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own the integrated internal development schedule for space and off-world (e.g., lunar) reactor programs, including engineering design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, test, analysis, safety, and customer deliverables.
  • Drive cross-functional program execution across reactor engineering, thermal systems, electrical systems, structures, manufacturing, test, safety, licensing, quality, supply chain, and business development.
  • Identify critical-path activities, schedule risk, resource constraints, technical blockers, and dependency gaps; escalate issues early and drive mitigation plans to closure.
  • Coordinate build, integration, and test planning for space reactor development hardware, including development units, pathfinders, engineering test articles, qualification-relevant builds, and integrated system tests.
  • Support government customer engagement by helping communicate program status, technical progress, schedule impacts, and development logic to DoD, NASA, DOE, and other mission stakeholders.
  • Support proposal and new program shaping by developing credible execution plans, technical schedules, milestone structures, test plans, and resource estimates.
  • Partner with systems engineering to ensure requirements, interfaces, verification plans, and program schedules remain synchronized as designs evolve.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline.
  • 5+ years of experience in technical program management, systems engineering, or hardware development in aerospace, defense, nuclear, or a related technically demanding field.
  • Familiarity with space nuclear power or propulsion systems, including fission surface power, nuclear thermal or electric propulsion, heat rejection, radiation environments, or nuclear safety.
  • Experience managing against external customer milestones while maintaining a parallel internal risk-reduction and technology-maturation plan.
  • Working knowledge of systems engineering processes: requirements management, interface control, verification planning, and mission assurance.
  • Work with engineering leads to define the minimum viable set of analyses, hardware builds, and tests required to retire key technical risks for space nuclear systems.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience:

Skills

  • Master's degree in aerospace engineering, systems engineering, nuclear engineering, physics, or a related technical field.
  • Prior experience with space systems, spacecraft payloads, launch vehicles, power systems, or other high-reliability aerospace hardware.
  • PMP certification or equivalent systems engineering or program leadership credential.
  • Prior experience working within or directly supporting DoD, NASA, DOE, USSF, DARPA, AFRL, or a national laboratory program.

Compensation

  • Salary is determined based on skills assessment during the interview

Company info

  • 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, 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 Space Mission Manager, you will own the integrated development plan for Antares' space and off-world reactor programs, spanning DoD, NASA, and adjacent government customers. You will translate mission objectives, contract requirements, and customer milestones into a coherent, executable internal plan-one that accounts for engineering dependencies, test requirements, procurement constraints, and safety milestones across a highly interdisciplinary team.
  • 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, 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.
  • As a Space Mission Manager, you will own the integrated development plan for Antares' space and off-world reactor programs, spanning DoD, NASA, and adjacent government customers.
  • You will translate mission objectives, contract requirements, and customer milestones into a coherent, executable internal plan-one that accounts for engineering dependencies, test requirements, procurement constraints, and safety milestones across a highly interdisciplinary 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.
  • 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 https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Active or prior security clearance, or ability to obtain a Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance
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