Quality Engineering Intern - Summer

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 Summer Internship Program

Internships at Antares are anything but ordinary. You'll work alongside our team as we design, build, and test fission microreactors built to deliver reliable energy for critical missions on Earth, in space, and underwater.

Our interns contribute to real work from day one. Depending on your role, you may touch hardware, write and test software, support manufacturing and operations, or help build the systems that allow Antares to move quickly as we scale. You'll work alongside engineers, operators, and other experts solving challenging problems—and you'll leave your internship with hands‑on experience that's difficult to find anywhere else.

We work hard, move quickly, and take pride in what we're building. If you're excited to learn by doing and want to contribute to the next generation of nuclear energy, we'd love to have you join us next summer.

We will be running two separate cohorts to accommodate students on both semester and quarter schedules:

Cohort #1

Monday, May 17 – Friday, August 13

Cohort #2

Monday, June 14 – Friday, September 10

All internship roles are based at our Torrance headquarters and require interns to work onsite five days per week. We will not be considering candidates for remote or hybrid arrangements.

Interns will receive a relocation and housing stipend as part of their offer package.

About the Team

Interns on the Quality Engineering team develop inspection methods and qualify inspection equipment for a variety of mechanical and electrical systems. They work cross‑functionally with design, manufacturing, test, supply chain, and materials teams to validate hardware, characterize the uncertainty of inspection techniques, and ensure rigor in the build of nuclear systems, structures, and components.

Interns begin with small starter projects and quickly progress to a long‑duration project that culminates in a technical deliverable and presentation. You will be integrated and evaluated as a first‑year junior engineer, not simply as an intern. The bar for success is high: you are expected to use your mentor and available resources thoughtfully, execute on your project, and proactively identify additional issues and opportunities for improvement.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop inspection methods for mechanical and electrical systems.

• Support the qualification and implementation of inspection equipment and techniques.

• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, test, supply chain, and materials teams to validate hardware.

• Characterize measurement and inspection uncertainty and document technical conclusions.

• Help ensure rigor and traceability in the build of nuclear systems, structures, and components.

• Research new tools and technologies that could close gaps in the Quality Engineering team's capabilities.

• Develop automation and implement process improvements that increase inspection…