6 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the guidance firmware and virtual fencing logic that determines when and how to guide each animal.
- Design guidance algorithms, state machines, geometry, virtual fences, paths, and low-bandwidth radio protocols.
- Build and deploy modern C++23 software on FreeRTOS under tight power, memory, concurrency, and real-time constraints.
- Debug intermittent, field-only problems using logs, telemetry, and system and animal understanding.
- Contribute to the overall quality and reliability of the guidance system through better patterns, tooling, and defect detection.
- Collaborate with firmware, backend, frontend, design, and animal experts, including observing animals in the field.
- Support and mentor other engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and context sharing.
Requirements
- Solid experience shipping software for resource-constrained systems such as embedded devices, consoles, or real-time engines.
- Strong C++ fundamentals and software design pattern knowledge.
- Comfort with concurrency, limited memory and stack, and real-time behavior.
- Good judgment under uncertainty involving inaccurate sensor data, unexpected animal behavior, and unclear requirements.
- Ability to reason about geometry, probability, and timing.
- Strong ownership and ability to follow problems through to root cause.
- Effective communication, feedback, and teamwork skills.
- Preferred experience with state machines or pathfinding.
- Preferred experience with real-time operating system internals, interrupts, scheduling, priorities, and timing guarantees.
- Preferred experience with safety-critical systems or unreliable, low-bandwidth communication links.
- Experience with animals or curiosity about farming, animal welfare, or outdoor hardware is beneficial.
Benefits
- Wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave.
- Southern Cross Health Insurance.
- Six months of fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers and four weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave, plus other parental benefits.
- Annual $1000 self-development budget.
- Salary, benefits, and employee stock ownership plan.
- Snacks and drinks provided.
- Office-first work arrangement with daily office attendance as the default, with flexibility when needed.
About Halter
Halter builds a livestock management system combining solar-powered smart collars, farm sensors, and software to virtually fence, move, and monitor herds. It sells hardware with a subscription platform to dairy and grazing farmers, letting them remotely shift cattle and track health and behavior. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, the privately held company is backed by investors including DCVC and Blackbird.