Senior Network Engineer Wireless networks

At Halter were on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break No quad bikes no dogs no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. Its changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us youll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think out-work and out-care. Were committed to delivering real change in the world - this isnt easy and in truth we love that its hard.

Were backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund Bessemer Venture Partners BOND DCVC Blackbird Promus Ventures Rocket Labs Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.

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The Network team owns the wireless backbone that connects every collar to the Halter platform moving half-a-billion messages between the backend and collars per day! That touches LoRa-based communication protocols cellular backhaul the tower network itself and the edge-to-cloud pipeline that turns radio traffic into real-time telemetry farmers and ranchers can trust. As Halter scales across new farms regions and terrain this network has to scale with it reliably because cows dont take days off.

Were looking for a Senior Network Engineer to take ownership of the performance reliability and scalability of Halters collar and tower network. Youll operate at the intersection of wireless communication protocols tower infrastructure and real-time data flow diagnosing issues from the field designing the architecture that prevents them and setting the technical direction for how the network evolves as Halter grows.

This is a senior hands-on technical role. Youll be the person other engineers come to with the gnarliest wireless and infrastructure problems and youll be expected to make the calls that matter when it counts.

• Work across technical and commercial teams to understand on-farm connectivity challenges and translate them into actionable requirements that improve the performance and reliability of Halters IoT network.

• Take ownership of the operation and optimisation of Halters collar and tower network ensuring robust performance scalability and minimal downtime.

• Design and evolve the network architecture with a focus on wireless communication protocols (e.g. LoRa) tower infrastructure edge-to-cloud data flow and real-time telemetry processing.

• Drive continuous improvement of network health through monitoring data analysis and field feedback proactively identifying coverage gaps latency issues and interference patterns.

• Lead tower deployment strategy including site selection configuration provisioning automation and remote management to enable zero-touch scalability.

• Help set the technical vision and direction for the network discipline alongside other technical leaders.

• Partner closely with firmware backend and product teams to ensure seamless end-to-end data flow from devices in the field through to the Halter platform.

• Contribute to cross-functional design discussions making sure networking considerations latency range throughput redundancy are well represented in product decisions.

• Own the rollout and support of networking tools and diagnostics that help teams debug communication issues and understand device behaviour across varied terrain and conditions.

• Mentor fellow engineers sharing best practice in wireless networking telemetry scaling and high-availability systems.

• Implement and improve observability for network performance using tooling and data pipelines that make system health visible and actionable.

• Help plan and prioritise work within the Network team ensuring rapid value delivery and long-term reliability.

• Stay on top of evolving wireless networking mesh architecture spectrum management and rural connectivity technologies and bring new ideas back to the team.

• Participate in our 24/7 on-call rotation helping ensure uptime across our deployed infrastructure and supporting incident resolution.

• Other tasks as needed as part of a fast-paced high-trust mission-driven team scaling real-world systems.

• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale wireless networks ideally including LPWAN/LoRa cellular/3GPP or similar low-power long-range protocols.

• A track record of owning network architecture end-to-end not just designing it but keeping it healthy in production at scale over years.

• Comfort working across the full stack of a connectivity problem: RF and antenna behaviour tower hardware edge devices and the cloud systems consuming the data.

• Experience with observability and monitoring for distributed or IoT systems you know how to make network health visible before it becomes an incident.

• Have grown other engineers by working alongside them sharing judgment and technique not just reviewing their output.

• Stay calm under pressure have a low ego and can rally a team through tough or ambiguous problems.

• A first-principles approach: you reason from the ground up rather than defaulting to whats familiar especially in a domain rural outdoor variable-terrain wireless where off-the-shelf answers rarely fit.

• Willingness to get out on farm. Understanding how the network actually behaves in the field is core to doing this job well.

• Experience with mesh networking spectrum management or deploying infrastructure in remote or rural environments.

• Background in telemetry systems at IoT scale (thousands to millions of devices).

• Experience with provisioning automation and remote/zero-touch device management.

If you think you have what it takes but dont necessarily tick every box on this job description please still get in touch and apply. Wed love to chat to see if youll be an epic fit.

Please apply with a cover letter explaining why youre excited about this role and about working at Halter along with your CV and well be in touch. Feel free to check out for more on working at Halter and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Halter is an accredited employer and can sponsor work visas and support relocation for the right candidate.

Halter is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace a place where we can each be ourselves and do the best work of our lives. Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the requirements women and under-represented groups of candidates tend to only apply when they meet every requirement. If you think you have what it takes but dont necessarily tick every requirement on this job description please still get in touch and apply to Halter. Wed love to chat to see if youll be an epic fit!

If this opportunity sounds like you please apply below by sending through your cover letter explaining why youre excited about this role and working at Halter along with your CV and well be in touch!

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• Work that genuinely matters. Every now and again a company comes along that transforms an entire industry and leaves the world in a better place. Our team gets to be part of something truly meaningful helping farmers improve their livelihoods spend more time with their families and build more sustainable operations.

• Spectacular people solving hard problems. Our culture is designed for talented people to do work that changes lives. The team is filled with diverse kind and driven people who push each other to do their best work. Youll be thrown into the deep end tackling complex challenges and building something tangible that solves real problems.

• Youll grow here. Autonomy mastery and learning define how we work. Youll have the freedom to work on interesting problems master new skills and continuously develop yourself both through your role and our $1000 personal growth fund.

• This isnt easy and we love that its hard. Working at Halter will be the most rewarding and the most challenging work of your life. We move fast take bold bets and work hard to reshape an entire industry. As one team member put it: Joining Halter is a bit like strapping yourself to a rocket ship but its an epic journey to be a part of!

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Senior IC