Role overview

Halter is transforming livestock farming through wireless-connected collars that allow farmers to manage grazing without traditional fencing, quad bikes, or dogs. As Engineering Manager for the Wireless Network team, you’ll lead the engineers responsible for keeping over one million IoT devices connected across New Zealand, Australia, the US, and Canada. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management—you’ll shape network architecture and spectrum strategy while building and coaching a world-class team solving connectivity problems in remote terrain where conventional coverage doesn’t exist.

Key responsibilities

Lead a wireless network engineering team, managing performance conversations, providing mentoring and feedback, and hiring to build capability in rare skill areas.
Own the technical direction and delivery of network architecture, reliability, and scalability across the collar-to-tower-to-cloud connectivity chain.
Drive network reliability outcomes by setting uptime targets, leading incident response, and building sustainable on-call practices for a 24/7 physical infrastructure.
Plan and execute tower deployment and coverage strategy as the company scales into new regions, including site selection, RF planning, and critical infrastructure delivery.
Stay deeply involved in technical decisions around spectrum allocation, LoRa and cellular behaviour, tower fleet automation, and software tooling that connects devices to backend systems.
Collaborate across firmware, backend, hardware, and field operations teams to clarify requirements and shape product decisions.
Develop domain knowledge by spending time on farm, and contribute to engineering culture and practices across Halter.

Requirements

Proven experience leading engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and mentoring.
Strong wireless networking fundamentals including spectrum allocation, path loss modelling, link budgets, and antenna behaviour.
Hands-on deployment experience with LoRa, LoRaWAN, cellular, or other long-range wireless technologies at scale.
Understanding of platform infrastructure including configuration management tools (such as Ansible), fleet automation, and running thousands of remote devices reliably.
Comfortable reading and reviewing code in Go, Python, or C++, and able to maintain sharp technical judgement.
Ability to structure work and balance speed with quality without being overly prescriptive.
Experience in fast-moving startups, exposure to growth phases, and comfort navigating ambiguous problem spaces.

What makes this role worth considering

You’ll be solving genuinely novel connectivity challenges—keeping livestock connected hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town in valleys and remote terrain where standard networks fail. The role demands real technical depth and leadership maturity: you’ll hold the technical bar high while creating space for your team to grow, stay hands-on in the architecture and strategy, and see your work have tangible impact on how farming actually works. Halter is backed by tier-one investors and has built a culture around meaningful, difficult work where teams out-think, out-work, and out-care.