We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our wireless network engineering team - the team that keeps one of the world’s largest private IoT networks connected. Over a million devices across New Zealand, Australia, the US and Canada, spanning LoRa, cellular, and satellite direct-to-device, running on remote infrastructure in some of the hardest terrain there is.
This isn’t a pure delivery or pure people role. You’ll be in the work: shaping the network architecture, weighing in on spectrum strategy and link budgets, reviewing the automation that runs our tower fleet, and helping your team do the best work of their careers. You’ll need to hold the technical bar high while creating the space for others to grow.
We’re solving connectivity problems that haven’t been solved before - keeping livestock connected hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town, where there’s often no coverage at all. It’s a role that demands absolute ownership: someone who can take a blurry problem, create clarity, and lead a team to nail it.
THE KIND OF PROBLEMS YOUR TEAM SOLVES
Halter is one system: hardware, software, and AI, running live on real farms. The wireless network team owns the connectivity layer everything else depends on:
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Keeping over a million collars connected across LoRa, cellular, and satellite direct-to-device - in valleys, over ridgelines, and far beyond the edge of conventional coverage.
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Planning coverage with real RF engineering: link budgets, path loss modelling, antenna selection, and spectrum strategy across multiple regulatory regimes.
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Running a fleet of thousands of remote towers with zero-touch provisioning, configuration automation, and remote diagnostics - a truck roll to a hill-country site is expensive, so software has to do the work.
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Squeezing every byte: our devices are power and bandwidth constrained, so protocol efficiency and data optimisation directly shape the product.
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Making network health visible - turning telemetry from millions of radio links into signals engineers and field teams can act on.
Every team here ships systems that have to work in a paddock, not just a browser tab. As an engineering manager at Halter, you’re in the work, not above it: coaching engineers, shaping the technical bets, and staying hands-on.