General Counsel

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.
• Serve as the primary legal point of contact for DOE, DoD, and other federal agency relationships and contractual obligations.
• 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.
• Provide legal counsel on nuclear regulatory matters, including NRC licensing, DOE regulatory frameworks, nuclear materials handling, and compliance with applicable federal and state nuclear safety requirements.
• Build, own, and continuously improve Antares’ export controls compliance program, including ITAR, EAR, and other applicable regimes, 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership.
• 12 + years of legal experience.
• Experience in 2 out of the 3 areas of expertise:
  • Demonstrated experience managing government contracts (FAR/DFARS) and government-funded programs.
  • Hands-on experience building or leading an export controls compliance program (ITAR and/or EAR).
  • Experience with commercial contracts and regulatory matters.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience as General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel at a high-growth company.