25 days ago
Base Salary
$160k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build shared software infrastructure for hardware interfaces, test execution, data acquisition, live monitoring, and analysis.
- Develop reusable drivers and adapters for sensors, data acquisition systems, controllers, laboratory instruments, and custom electronics.
- Build configurable test sequencing, equipment state management, pass/fail criteria, operator interfaces, command validation, equipment limits, and fault recovery.
- Capture synchronized measurements, logs, test parameters, hardware configurations, calibration data, and software versions.
- Create tools for reviewing test runs, comparing performance, identifying anomalies, and generating reports.
- Support reliable local operation across interrupted communications, device failures, and network outages.
- Establish testing, version control, deployment, documentation, traceability, and configuration-management practices for multiple test stands.
- Participate in hardware bring-up, test campaigns, and root-cause investigations with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience owning production software from architecture through deployment and maintenance.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and strong technical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
- Experience building hardware-facing software using asynchronous programming, structured data models, automated testing, and maintainable API design.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with instruments, sensors, controllers, data acquisition systems, or other physical hardware.
- Familiarity with serial, TCP/IP, CAN, Modbus, SCPI, or VISA communication interfaces.
- Experience capturing, storing, and processing measurement data.
- Ability to translate engineering needs into requirements and deliver tools for multidisciplinary teams.
- Preferred experience with test automation platforms, hardware-in-the-loop systems, automated manufacturing test infrastructure, web or desktop equipment interfaces, live data visualization, time-series databases, streaming telemetry, timestamp synchronization, test data management, laboratory instrumentation, industrial equipment, simulation, device emulation, fault injection, Linux, containerized deployments, CI/CD, and high-reliability engineering environments.
About Antares
Antares designs and manufactures compact, transportable nuclear microreactors that deliver mobile power to remote military bases, austere industrial sites, and future space and underwater missions. The privately held company, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, monetizes through development contracts and eventual sales of microreactor systems; it holds contracts with U.S. military services, NASA, and the Department of Energy.