Antares Pharma

Antares Pharma

Senior, Thermo-Mechanical Design Engineer - Reactor Cavity Cooling Systems

Los Angeles · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 days ago
AirflowProcurementANSYSFEACFDMechanical DesignAerospace EngineeringCOMSOLLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • The ideal candidate has expertise in thermal-fluid systems, HVAC, piping, and structural design, and enjoys solving multidisciplinary engineering challenges in a highly constrained design environment.
  • Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

  • Perform thermal-fluid, mechanical, and structural analyses to support the sizing, layout, and optimization of cooling system components, including piping, ducts, stacks, supports, filtration equipment, and reactor cavity structures.
  • Define system architecture, operating limits, design margins, and control strategies to ensure reliable performance across all operating conditions.
  • Develop design documentation, including engineering calculations, system specifications, interface definitions, design reports, and technical justifications to support licensing and design reviews.
  • Support the design, fabrication, and execution of component and system-level testing by developing test articles, test stands, instrumentation plans, and validation procedures to demonstrate system performance and life-cycle reliability.
  • Coordinate cross-functionally with reactor systems, structures, licensing, manufacturing, procurement, and operations teams to ensure successful integration of the RCCS into the overall plant design.
  • Support supplier selection, technical evaluations, design reviews, and resolution of manufacturing and installation issues.
  • Present technical work at internal and external design reviews and provide engineering leadership throughout the design, analysis, testing, and deployment lifecycle.
  • As a Senior, Thermo-Mechanical Design Engineer, you will be the Responsible Engineer (RE) for the Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS), leading the design and analysis of a critical deployment system.
  • You will be responsible for the thermal, mechanical, and piping design of the RCCS, ensuring the reactor cavity and surrounding structures remain within design temperature limits, while minimizing wasted thermal power.
  • This role involves thermal-fluid analysis, piping and structural sizing, filtration system design, and integration of piping, supports, stacks, and cavity components.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or a related engineering discipline with an emphasis on thermal-fluid sciences, heat transfer
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively on multidisciplinary engineering teams and communicate technical concepts to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Experience designing or analyzing natural circulation, buoyancy-driven, or convective heat transfer systems using CFD or multiphysics simulation tools.
  • Proficiency with engineering analysis and simulation tools such as ANSYS, COMSOL Multiphysics, or equivalent finite element (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.
  • 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

  • Master's degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Thermal Sciences, or a related discipline.

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 Senior, Thermo-Mechanical Design Engineer, you will be the Responsible Engineer (RE) for the Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS), leading the design and analysis of a critical deployment system. You will be responsible for the thermal, mechanical, and piping design of the RCCS, ensuring the reactor cavity and surrounding structures remain within design temperature limits, while minimizing wasted thermal power. This role involves thermal-fluid analysis, piping and structural sizing, filtration system design, and integration of piping, supports, stacks, and cavity components. The ideal candidate has expertise in thermal-fluid systems, HVAC, piping, and structural design, and enjoys solving multidisciplinary engineering challenges in a highly constrained design environment.
  • 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.

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.
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