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Antares · 9 hours ago

Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Cover Gas Systems

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $185K/yr

5+ years exp

Antares is a company focused on making clean energy abundant through advanced nuclear technology. They are seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer to lead the design and development of mechanical systems for monitoring fission products and maintaining an inert reactor core environment.

EnergyIndustrialMachinery ManufacturingManufacturing

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Design, build, and test the reactor’s cover gas system, hardware, assemblies and detectors

Concept and develop custom fluid-dynamic features to support fission product detection and inert environment retention

Define design criteria, requirements, system architecture, and verification/validation test plans

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across thermal, structural, neutronics, controls, and simulation disciplines

Engineer components for high-temperature, high-stress, and radiation environments using metals, ceramics, and other advanced materials

Perform design-for-manufacturability (DFM) assessments and execute tradeoffs across performance, cost, schedule, and risk

Document technical decisions and tradeoffs, and present recommendations to senior leadership

Qualification

Fluid system designComputational fluid dynamicsMechanical architectureRadiation detection technologiesDesign engineering toolsEngineering scripting languagesCADHigh-temperature environmentsTeam collaboration