Antares Nuclear
Senior Power Electronics Engineer
$160K–$210K
Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in power electronics or high-power electrical systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.
About the job
Owns the high-power electrical architecture for Antares’ nuclear plant, including its common DC bus, system integration, testing, supplier relationships, and expansion roadmap.
What you'll do
- Define and scale the DC bus architecture, including protection, fault handling, and multi-unit expansion.
- Lead high-voltage system integration, verification, and test campaigns; translate results into design and supplier requirements.
- Manage power electronics suppliers and drive the electrical development roadmap, including technology selection and equipment layout.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years in power electronics or high-power electrical systems, including architecture ownership through hardware bring-up.
- Direct experience with multi-source/load DC bus architectures, protection and fault analysis; hands-on experience with grid-tied inverters, DC/DC conversion, and battery energy storage integration.
- Experience with high-power inverter systems, product-level EMI/EMC testing, power electronics suppliers, and planning and executing high-power test campaigns.
Nice to have
- Grid-forming controls or multi-unit power architecture experience; familiarity with IEEE 2800.
- Power-system modeling tools, high-power EMI/EMC design, formal quality programs, or building test infrastructure from scratch.
Pay
$160K – $210K (base salary)
Tools
DC/DC converters, grid-tied inverters, battery energy storage, PLECS, PSCAD, Simulink/Simscape, ETAP, SKM
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