Antares Pharma

Antares Pharma

General Counsel

Los Angeles

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About the role

  • This is a defining leadership role at a pivotal moment in the company's growth.
  • The ideal candidate has deep experience at the intersection of government contracting, nuclear or regulated environments, and export controls, and thrives in the ambiguity and pace of an early-stage, mission-driven company.
  • Serve as the primary legal point of contact for DOE, DoD, and other federal agency relationships and contractual obligations

Responsibilities

  • Serve as Antares' first in-house legal hire and primary legal partner to leadership, engineering, operations, finance, supply chain, business development, and people teams.
  • Draft, review, negotiate, and maintain a broad range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, vendor agreements, services agreements, consulting agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, software/SaaS agreements, testing agreements, teaming agreements, and strategic partnership agreements.
  • Build, own, and continuously improve Antares' export controls compliance program, including ITAR, EAR, and other applicable regimes, including policies, procedures, training, technology-control plans, visitor controls, deemed export processes, data handling practices, and escalation workflows.
  • Manage and scope external counsel across specialized areas including export controls, contracts, nuclear regulatory, corporate, employment, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and financing matters.
  • Define the company's legal infrastructure and procedures, including document retention, signature authority, contract lifecycle management, legal intake, entity management, board support, and corporate governance processes.
  • Create scalable contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval workflows, fallback positions, and internal guidance to reduce legal bottlenecks as Antares grows.
  • Own day-to-day legal support across the company, providing practical, business-oriented advice that enables rapid execution while appropriately managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk
  • Support government contracts and government-funded programs, including proposal review, flow-down analysis, contract negotiation, compliance obligations, data rights, deliverables, reporting requirements, and program execution risk.

Requirements

  • Experience in 2 out of the 3 areas of expertise
  • Experience with commercial contracts and regulatory matters
  • 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
  • If you can't make it, find a teammate who can channel your intentions and go in your place.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience:

Skills

  • Experience as General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel at a high-growth technology or deep tech company
  • Deep familiarity with NRC licensing processes, DOE contracting vehicles (e.g. CRADA, WFO), and nuclear materials regulations
  • Experience supporting board governance, venture financings, and M&A transactions
  • Broad experience in a range of legal domains across contracts, intellectual property, export compliance, and others

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
  • Antares is looking for its first General Counsel - a seasoned legal leader who will build and own the legal and compliance foundation required to take our nuclear microreactors from prototyping through full-rate production and commercial deployment. This is a defining leadership role at a pivotal moment in the company's growth.
  • 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.
  • Antares is looking for its first General Counsel - a seasoned legal leader who will build and own the legal and compliance foundation required to take our nuclear microreactors from prototyping through full-rate production and commercial deployment.
  • As GC, you will serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the CEO and executive team.
  • You will lead legal and compliance functions across the company, and you will partner closely with engineering, operations, finance, supply chain, business development, and people teams to enable rapid execution while ensuring Antares operates within an appropriate legal and regulatory framework.

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.

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