Licensing 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, and elevate global standards of living. 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, Ursa Major, Ultra Safe Nuclear, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
About the Role
As a key Licensing and Regulatory team member, you will provide senior-level licensing support critical to successful new reactor experiments and demonstrations leading to real-world microreactor operations. This opportunity to bring advanced reactors to reality will require you to work with our teams to ensure nuclear safety and licensing components are completed to further the development and deployment of Antares systems to meet the needs of our end-users.
The ideal candidate will have a substantial regulatory background, ideally with DOE, NRC, or DOD, and a strong interest in bringing advanced reactors into reality.
Responsibilities

• Prepare, edit, and review regulatory submittals in support of licensing efforts.
• Communicate and negotiate complex regulatory topics.
• Develop and manage inputs to regulatory applications and other legal processes for obtaining licenses and permits.
• Apply authoring, reviewing, editing, document planning, and organizational skills for preparation of large and complex nuclear license applications.
• Provide technical regulatory guidance to resolve licensing development, review, and implementation processes.
• Oversee and support licensing programs and schedules for various regulatory engagements and actions.
• Provide support for licensing & regulatory meetings.
• Develop and support submittal of project licensing documents and ensure that licensing documents are complete, accurate, and in compliance with the licensing strategy, commitments, and statutory requirements in all material respects.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or similar discipline (Nuclear, Mechanical, or similar)
• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical documents and presentations
• Must be a strong team player with the ability to develop effective relationships with internal and external customers
• U.S. Citizen status required

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for problem-solving, and desire to optimize modern nuclear design and operation
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills
• Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution, and leadership skills

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
• Ability to travel to regulatory locations as needed
• Ability to obtain a Q or Top Secret clearance is preferred

Culture
At Antares, we like to specifically tie each role to our founding document's set of values-here are the top five cultural values we think you should believe at your core to be successful:

• Think in Systems - Energy and Defense are complex ecosystems with numerous stakeholders with competing priorities, conflicting policies, perverse incentives, and emergent and path-dependent properties. First principles thinking alone is insufficient. 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.
• Obsess over the End User - The customer and end user are often not the same. We will never build globally competitive commercial products if we lose sight of our end users and their entire interaction with the product life cycle
• Be Unconstrained by Convention - Our only limits are the laws of physics. Many, even experts, will say what we are working on is impossible. They said the same about SpaceX reusing rockets. Generationally impactful companies, by definition, must accomplish the seemingly impossible. If it were easy, it would have already been done. Never shy away from a solution because it has never been tried before, and never choose to do something because that's "how it's always been done."
• Go Where the Work Is - Never miss a chance to meet a customer, user, or stakeholder face to face, even if that means hopping on a plane. If you can't make it, find a teammate who can channel your intentions and go in your place. Deep work can be done from anywhere, but we believe teams are built in person, and aim to maximize our time together.
• Operate in the Grey - Embrace nuance in pursuit of truth. Question every fundamental assumption.