Antares Nuclear
Staff-Principal Reliability Engineer
$170K–$250K
Los Angeles · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Own quantitative reliability engineering for the R1 microreactor, translating plant availability goals into system requirements and guiding design, testing, and operational improvements.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain reactor reliability, availability, and capacity-factor models, analyses, and metrics.
- Identify and mitigate system and component failure risks through failure-mode analyses, design trades, testing strategies, and reliability improvement plans.
- Work with engineering, manufacturing, test, and operations teams to update predictions and communicate reliability risks and recommendations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, applied mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of experience in reliability, root cause analysis, failure analysis, statistical analysis, or similar quantitative engineering work on complex hardware systems.
- Working knowledge of statistics, probability, failure modes, and reliability engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to evaluate mechanical and electrical failure mechanisms, analyze technical data, and communicate recommendations.
Nice to have
- Reliability experience in nuclear, aerospace, space, automotive, energy, defense, or other safety- or mission-critical hardware.
- Experience with reliability modeling and analysis methods, or statistical tools such as Python, MATLAB, Octave, R, Minitab, SAS, or NCSS.
Pay
USD 170,000-$225,000 base salary (Staff Reliability Engineer); USD 190,000-$250,000 base salary (Principal Reliability Engineer)
Tools
Python, MATLAB, Octave, R, Minitab, SAS, NCSS
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