Senior Firmware Engineer

We're looking for a senior firmware engineer to help our growth through multiple international markets this year. As an engineer at Halter, you will demonstrate ownership of firmware through a deep understanding of your firmware requirements, functionality, and design, and see it through all aspects of its life cycle from inception through to mass deployment and maintenance. 
You'll be working on the platform team, responsible for all aspects of delivering a highly reliable, fault-tolerant and monitorable collar, including ultra-low power design, communication, production support, in-field upgrade and monitoring. What you'll do

• Design, implement and deliver new features and performance improvements to our product firmware
• Drive improvements to our quality and testing systems
• Work closely with other engineering teams to ship high-impact features quickly.
• Support and mentor other engineers through design conversations, code reviews, and generous context sharing.
• Proactively monitor the performance of our fleet and drive improvements to our monitoring platforms

You'll be great if you

• Have designed and delivered complex embedded firmware for resource constrained devices and have the experience (and lessons) to show for it.
• Love solving hard technical problems and delivering awesome features to customers.
• Are a strong team player who contributes to the team's performance and excels in giving and receiving feedback.
• Are comfortable working with low-level hardware and resource-constrained systems.
• A degree in engineering (software, electronics, mechatronics) is nice to have, but not essential.

Why our team loves working at Halter

• Every now and again a company comes along that disrupts and transforms an entire industry, leaving society in a better place; few people get the opportunity to work at companies like these. Halter is an incredible technology transforming an essential industry. We have a genuine and shared connection to our mission to make a difference in the world.
• Dedicate yourself to solving real-world problems alongside an epic team in a culture designed around high growth. The excitement, risk, and reward of a high-growth technology scale-up on the global stage.
• 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.
• 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.
• Delicious snacks and drinks are available for your daily flow.

Our Office First Approach
There's a reason you visit your friends in person, live with your family and don't do dinners over Zoom. Humans are wired for connection. We believe a world-class, in-person office culture is the best way for high-performing teams.
Being office first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth, learning, impact, and building genuine long-lasting relationships. Strong relationships make it easier to disagree, give feedback, and do meaningful and aligned work. We don't like having heaps of rules or policies, but this means having strong, trusted relationships is critical.
We're office first, not office only. This means working from the office everyday is our default setting, but we flex when we need to. We have a high-trust culture, so everyone is trusted to do what's best for Halter.
Our office vibe is something special, it's hard to describe until you're here, but people at Halter who have come from fully remote or hybrid companies say they could never go back - the high energy and spectacular people they are now surrounded by everyday makes work so enjoyable. 
About Halter
The future of food production hinges on an important question: How do we feed the world's growing population without compromising our natural resources? Farmers feed our population and hold the keys to vital climate solutions. At Halter, we're on a mission to enable farmers to run the most productive and sustainable farms. Farmers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional farming. They're growing more grass, increasing production and improving the health and wellbeing of their cattle.
We bridge deep tech into farming. Halter enables farmers to remotely shift, virtually fence and proactively monitor their cows' health and behaviour. Can you imagine watching 500 dairy cows turn in unison and walk calmly towards the milking shed? Or beef cattle, behind virtual fences, happily grazing with their calves? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a mob of cows walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing farming with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry.
People join Halter because they want 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 Bond Capital,  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. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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