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Senior Structural Analyst - Space

Antares Health · Los Angeles · On-site

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About Antares Health

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About the role

As a Space Structural Analyst at Antares, you will own structural analysis and dynamics for space nuclear systems, including reactor, spacecraft, radiator, payload, and associated support hardware. This role combines stress analysis, structural dynamics, test planning, and hands-on development support for first-of-a-kind space and lunar reactor programs.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil/Structural Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related technical discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in structural analysis, stress analysis, structural dynamics, aerospace structures, spacecraft hardware, launch vehicle hardware, mechanical systems, or a related field
  • Strong fundamentals in solid mechanics, strength of materials, structural dynamics, vibration, fatigue, bolted joints, load paths, stiffness, and stability
  • Experience building and running finite element models for complex mechanical or aerospace hardware
  • Experience analyzing static loads, modal response, random vibration, acoustic environments, fatigue, thermal stress, or coupled structural loads
  • Master’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Structural Dynamics, or a related field
More about this role

At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We’re fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we’re building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.

The Antares team hails from SpaceX, the White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Energy, MIT, Rigetti Computing, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Idaho, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Savannah River. Antares has raised over $600M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has hundreds of million-dollars on contract with the military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.

As a Space Structural Analyst at Antares, you will own structural analysis and dynamics for space nuclear systems, including reactor, spacecraft, radiator, payload, and associated support hardware. This role combines stress analysis, structural dynamics, test planning, and hands-on development support for first-of-a-kind...

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