Antares Nuclear
Reliability Engineer II-Senior
$115K–$190K
Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Owns quantitative reliability engineering for the Antares R1 microreactor, translating plant-level performance goals into system requirements and improving predicted and demonstrated reliability.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain reliability, availability, and capacity-factor models, including reliability block diagrams, fault trees, and failure-mode analyses.
- Identify and reduce reliability risks through design reviews, trade studies, testing, data analysis, and collaboration with engineering and operations teams.
- Set reliability targets, define qualification and demonstration testing, track reliability metrics, and communicate risks and recommendations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related technical field.
- Experience performing reliability, root cause, failure, statistical, or similar quantitative engineering work on complex hardware systems.
- Working knowledge of statistics, probability, failure modes, and reliability engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to assess mechanical and electrical system failure risks, analyze technical data, and communicate recommendations.
Nice to have
- Experience in nuclear, aerospace, space, automotive, energy, defense, or other safety- or mission-critical hardware industries.
- Experience with reliability modeling and analysis methods, or statistical tools and programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, Octave, R, Minitab, SAS, or NCSS.
Pay
$115,000-$150,000 USD base salary; $140,000-$190,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, MATLAB, Octave, R, Minitab, SAS, NCSS
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