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About the 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. Formed in 2023, the Antares team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, The Air Force, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Los Alamos, Idaho, and Oak Ridge. Antares has raised over $130M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding. 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. Formed in 2023, the Antares team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, The Air Force, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Los Alamos, Idaho, and Oak Ridge. Antares has raised over $130M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding. As an early member of the Antares legal team, you will build the legal and compliance foundation required for the company to successfully iterate through prototyping and into full-rate production of our nuclear microreactors. You will serve as a trusted advisor across the business, partnering closely with leadership, engineering, operations, finance, and business development teams to enable rapid execution while ensuring the company operates within an appropriate legal and regulatory framework. The ideal candidate will be able to execute in an ambiguous environment, with the ability to wear many hats day-to-day. As a growing company, Antares requires legal counsel who can move seamlessly between contract negotiations, compliance program development, regulatory strategy, and day-to-day business advising. This individual will play a defining role in helping the company scale responsibly while maintaining the pace, pragmatism, and bias for action necessary to achieve our mission. Roles and Responsibilities: Serve as Antares' first in-house legal hire and primary legal partner to leadership, engineering, operations, finance, supply chain, business development, and people teams. Support government contracts and government-funded programs, including proposal review, flow-down analysis, contract negotiation, compliance obligations, data rights, deliverables, reporting requirements, and program execution risk. Draft, review, negotiate, and maintain a broad range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, vendor agreements, services agreements, consulting agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, software/SaaS agreements, testing agreements, teaming agreements, and strategic partnership agreements. Build, own, and continuously improve Antares' export controls compliance program, including policies, procedures, training, technology-control plans, visitor controls, deemed export processes, data handling practices, and escalation workflows. Manage and scope external counsel across specialized areas including export controls, contracts, nuclear regulatory, corporate, employment, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and financing matters. Define the company's legal infrastructure and procedures, including document retention, signature authority, contract lifecycle management, legal intake, entity management, board support, and corporate governance processes. Create scalable contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval workflows, fallback positions, and internal guidance to reduce legal bottlenecks as Antares grows. Own day-to-day legal support across the company, providing practical, business-oriented advice that enables rapid execution while appropriately managing legal, regulatory, and reputational risk

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership
• 5+ years of legal experience
• Experience with commercial contracts and regulatory matters
• Preferred Skills & Experience:
• Experience developing ITAR, EAR, or other export programs
• Broad experience in a range of legal domains across contracts, intellectual property, export compliance, and others
• Proven success in a start-up environment or similar, with the ability to manage ambiguity and wear many different hats
• Additional Requirements:
• Ability to work long hours and weekends as necessary to support critical milestones
• Ability to trave

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