6 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the guidance firmware and virtual fencing logic on animal collars, including design, implementation, testing, mass deployment, and ongoing production support.
- Design guidance algorithms, state machines, geometry for virtual fences and paths, and low-bandwidth radio communication protocols.
- Build reliable, power- and memory-constrained real-time software in modern C++ on FreeRTOS.
- Debug intermittent field issues using logs, telemetry, and system and animal understanding.
- Collaborate with firmware, backend, frontend, design, and animal experts, including observing animals in the field.
- Improve guidance-system quality, reliability, tooling, and defect detection before deployment.
- Support and mentor 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.
- Ability to reason about geometry, probability, timing, inaccurate sensor data, unexpected animal behavior, and unclear requirements.
- Strong ownership and ability to follow problems through to root cause.
- Ability to give and receive feedback and work effectively as part of a team.
- Experience with state machines or pathfinding is a bonus.
- Experience with FreeRTOS or similar real-time operating-system internals, interrupts, scheduling, priorities, and timing guarantees is a bonus.
- Experience with safety-critical systems or unreliable, low-bandwidth communication links is a bonus.
- Experience with animals or curiosity about farming, animal welfare, and outdoor hardware is a bonus.
Benefits
- Wellness leave, unlimited paid annual leave, and 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.
- Employee stock ownership plan, remuneration benefits, and daily snacks and drinks.
- Office-first work arrangement with working from the office every day 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.