14 hours ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the guidance firmware and virtual fencing logic for Halter’s animal collars.
- Design guidance algorithms, state machines, and geometry for virtual fences and paths.
- Design low-bandwidth radio protocols for sending guidance data to collars and receiving animal data.
- Implement, test, deploy, and provide ongoing production support for software across a large live fleet.
- Debug intermittent, field-only problems using logs, telemetry, and system understanding.
- Collaborate with firmware, backend, frontend, design, and animal experts, including observing animals in the field.
- Improve the quality and reliability of the guidance system through better patterns, tooling, and preventative practices.
- 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.
- Ability to reason about geometry, probability, timing, inaccurate sensor data, unexpected animal behavior, and unclear requirements.
- Strong ownership and root-cause investigation skills.
- Effective collaboration and feedback skills.
- Bonus: experience with state machines or pathfinding.
- Bonus: experience with FreeRTOS or similar real-time operating system internals, interrupts, scheduling, priorities, and timing guarantees.
- Bonus: experience with safety-critical systems or unreliable, low-bandwidth communication links.
- Bonus: experience with animals or interest in farming, animal welfare, or outdoor hardware operating unattended on live animals.
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.
- Daily snacks and drinks.
- Office-first work arrangement, with working from the office every day as the default and 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.