Senior Space Electrical Architect (Nuclear-Powered Systems)

Antares; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Antares is seeking a Staff Space Electrical Systems Engineer to own the system-level electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, and verification strategy for space nuclear power systems and their development hardware. You will define power buses, voltage levels, grounding, redundancy, and fault containment, translating mission requirements into robust electrical interfaces.

Working with firmware, mechanical, thermal, reactor, and mission engineers, you will guide architecture from trade

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field.
• Approximately 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent ownership of complex electrical systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, or verification.
• Experience translating system requirements into electrical subsystem requirements and interfaces.
• Hands-on experience integrating and troubleshooting complex electrical hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own the system-level electrical architecture for space nuclear power systems and associated development and test hardware.
• Translate mission and vehicle requirements into electrical system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
• Define power buses, voltage levels, power quality, load allocations, grounding and bonding, isolation, protection, redundancy, and fault-containment boundaries.
• Develop electrical operating modes and transitions from startup to ground-test configurations.
• Lead electrical architecture trades involving distribution, redundancy, energy storage, and mass efficiency.
• Allocate requirements and define interfaces across power conversion, avionics, controls, and ground-support equipment.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, ICDs, budgets, verification plans, and design-review material.
• Review subsystem designs for compliance with electrical requirements and system compatibility.
• Define verification strategy from component testing to integrated-system testing.
• Support hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and anomaly resolution; perform FMEA and reliability analyses.

Skills

Electrical architecture

Requirements translation

Power distribution

System verification

Cross-functional collaboration

Fault management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Job description

Antares is seeking a Staff Space Electrical Systems Engineer to own the system-level electrical architecture, requirements, interfaces, and verification strategy for space nuclear power systems and their development hardware. You will define power buses, voltage levels, grounding, redundancy, and fault containment, translating mission requirements into robust electrical interfaces.

Working with firmware, mechanical, thermal, reactor, and mission engineers, you will guide architecture from trade