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The Electronics Engineer will design and develop electronics for animal wearables and infrastructure, overseeing all aspects from concept to production while solving complex issues and innovating for reliability and performance.
About the role
At Halter, we’re changing the way the world farms — and that takes deep thinking, fast execution, and world-class engineering. We’re growing quickly, expanding into new global markets, and we need experienced people to help us scale.
We’re looking for an electronics engineer to take full ownership of key parts of our collar hardware. This isn’t a support role — you’ll be driving design decisions, solving complex problems in the field, and seeing your work through from concept to mass deployment.
You’ll work across everything from ultra-low power design, RF optimisation, antenna tuning, and solar conversion, to battery systems, audio, and high-voltage pulse circuits. It’s deeply technical and fast-moving — the kind of environment where strong engineers thrive.
We want someone who’s excited to build for the real world, not just the lab. Someone who gets energy from turning tough constraints into smart solutions.
What your day could look like
- Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for world-leading animal wearables and infrastructure.
- End-to-end electronic design ownership including component selection, analysis, simulation, schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and testing.
- Consistently innovate to improve reliability and hardware performance while minimizing cost to hit ambitious targets.
- Collaborate with firmware, advanced systems, mechanical, production and farm teams.
- Design for manufacturing, design for testing, and design for EMC.
- Develop and execute validation plans to verify all critical features.
- Root cause analysis of manufacturing and field returns, providing clinical feedback for design improvements.
Who we’re looking for
- Significant professional experience in testing, troubleshooting and debugging electronics.
- Strong electronics product experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable electrical hardware from concept through production. Deliver new products, major changes and updates to production in a low-friction way.
- Experience shipping high-volume electronics products - and nailing it.
- Strong organisation and communication skills
- Significant professional experience rapidly designing and delivering highly reliable products
- Ability to thrive in a self-driven and demanding startup atmosphere
- Deep experience in ultra-low power IoT electronics design across power generation, consumption and usage. Passionate about creatively minimising power consumption by utilising cutting-edge tech.
- Significant professional experience designing and implementing circuit boards from concept through production using MCUs, SoCs, IMUs, GPS, WiFi, LoRa, I2C, SPI, OpAmps, analog to digital and digital to analog converters, solar power, high voltage generation and insulation, DC-DC converters and ultra-low power.
- Proficiency with EE tools (SPICE simulation, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, signal generators, LCR meters, current clamps, HV meters etc.).
- Able to travel to China, Thailand etc
- BE degree in Electrical Engineering or similar relevant qualification.
Why our team loves working at Halter
- A genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
- The excitement, risk, and reward of a high-growth technology scale-up.
- The pride of joining an iconic New Zealand technology company growing successfully on the global stage.
- The opportunity to work with and grow together with an enthusiastic, and highly gifted team with diverse backgrounds.
- The opportunity to supercharge your career in a supportive and caring environment.
- Our ideas are truly valued, we are able to move fast, and our impact is real.
- State-of-the-art, dog-friendly office that’s been thoughtfully designed right in the heart of Auckland city. Did we mention dogs and cows?
- Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.
- Healthy body, healthy mind. We’re partnered with Southern Cross Health Insurance to support your well-being.
- We offer 6 months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave and many other parental benefits that support you and your family.
- Our personal growth is important. Halter offers an annual $1000 self-development budget to be used for anything that fuels personal growth.
- Our time to recharge is valued, we’re offered wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
- We offer an inclusive and attractive remuneration package made up of salary, benefits and an employee stock ownership plan.
About Halter
At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.
To find out more, visit our careers website, LinkedIn & Instagram.
Join our team
Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace — a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements, women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily tick every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch and apply to Halter. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV, and we’ll be in touch!
Please also feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
Top Skills
Analog To Digital Converters
Current Clamps
Dc-Dc Converters
Digital To Analog Converters
Gps
High Voltage Generation
Hv Meters
I2C
Imus
Insulation
Lcr Meters
Lora
Mcus
Network Analyzers
Opamps
Oscilloscopes
Signal Generators
Socs
Solar Power
Spi
Spice Simulation
Wifi
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