Structural Analyst II
Listed on 2026-08-30
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Engineering
Mechanical Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists, Systems Engineer
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.
The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.
About the Role
As an analyst at Antares your primary responsibility will be building and running thermal-structural models of components and subsystems throughout the reactor core and power conversion system to ensure our designs will meet thermal, mechanical, operational, and performance requirements within the extreme environments of our R1 micro-reactor. Design engineers will rely on your modeling and technical expertise for iterative design feedback and optimization, while adhering to best practices for DFM (design for manufacturing) and maintaining a rapid pace of development.
Antares aims to maintain close collaboration between testing and analysis teams, and to this end you may often be asked to provide technical support before, during, and after test campaigns. This may take the form of cooperative planning of testing goals, instrumentation requests, root cause analysis in the event of failures, post-test data review, and model validation/anchoring.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Build, run, and maintain FEA (Finite Element Analysis) models of reactor components and subsystem assemblies
Provide thermal-mechanical assessments of designs and ensure they meet the static, dynamic, thermal, fatigue, and creep requirements set out by Antares and our regulatory agencies
Collaborate with designers and responsible engineers to provide guidance on initial sizing, material selection, and design feedback based on analytical results
Compile detailed documentation of analytical results and communicate key results, assumptions, and limitations to key stakeholders throughout the company
Provide support to test engineers in the form of collaborative test design, instrumentation selection, and data review to ensure test campaigns provide the necessary data to validate our models
Develop internal tools and calculators to enable other engineers to quickly and independently perform analytical assessments of their designs without the need for detailed finite element models
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers and across teams
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering
3+ years experience performing thermal and structural analysis
Experience building and running Non-Linear Thermal and Structural Finite Element Analysis (FEA) models
Competent in use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software for design modification and model defeaturing (Siemens NX or similar)
Steady and Transient Thermal Modeling
Preferred
Skills & Experience:
Comfortable in fast-paced environment with rapid design iteration loops
Low Cycle and High Cycle Fatigue Analysis
Participation in regulatory qualification or certification programs for safety critical systems in the aerospace or nuclear industry
Creep Analysis for high temperature applications
Fracture Analysis and acceptable flaw characterization in production environments
Dynamic Loads Analysis (Random Vibe, Modal Analysis, Explicit Dynamics)
Tool writing in Python, MATLAB, or other programming language
Familiar with ASME BPVC Section III Div 5
Experience building and running Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models
Additional Requirements
Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
Location
We are located in Torrance, CA in a 322,000 square foot, brand new facility…
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