Junior Reliability Engineer
Halter
Auckland, New Zealand
NZD 70k-80k / year + Equity
Posted on Jan 15, 2026
At Halter, we’re building a world-first system that transforms how farmers manage their land and animals, and our hardware sits at the heart of that experience. Every collar and tower in the field needs to perform reliably, every day, in tough farm environments. As we scale quickly, it’s critical that we maintain quality and move fast when things go wrong.
As part of our Fleet Operations team, you’ll play a key role in making sure returned collars, towers, and accessories are processed, diagnosed, and understood with urgency and precision. You’ll take ownership of the full returns workflow, from intake through to hands-on debugging and detailed fault analysis, ensuring we create tight, high-quality feedback loops into engineering and operations. This role is essential to enabling Halter’s growth without scaling manufacturing, design, or quality issues alongside it.
You’ll thrive in this role if you’re methodical, curious, and enjoy getting to the bottom of tricky problems, whether that’s electronic fault-finding, mechanical failures, or patterns emerging across returned devices. Your work will directly influence how we improve the product, prevent repeat issues, and deliver an increasingly reliable experience for farmers.
This role is all about supporting the processing and diagnosis of returned hardware (collars, towers and accessories) to ensure quick, high-quality feedback loops into our engineering and operations teams. This role is important to enable our growth without growing any manufacturing, design or quality issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Process collars and towers through the returns workflow from intake to diagnosis.
- Perform hands-on debugging and detailed fault analysis (electronic and mechanical).Document observations, root causes, and recommended actions in the returns system.
- Collaborate with logistics/admin teams to ensure accurate tracking and processing of hardware and ensure high urgency collars are returned and diagnosed quickly.
- Provide clear, timely reporting of findings to engineering and operations teams.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of testing methods and diagnostic processes.
Skills, Experience & Competencies
- Degree or equivalent experience in electronics, mechatronics, or related field.
- Strong practical electronics skills (fault-finding, measurement tools, circuit analysis).
- Methodical and detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
- Comfortable working with data capture tools and basic analysis.
- Curious and proactive in identifying root causes and patterns.
- Able to balance speed with accuracy in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong communicator - able to clearly document and escalate issues.
- Works well with cross-functional teams.
Why our team loves working at Halter
At Halter, we’re committed to creating an environment where people thrive. We offer unlimited paid annual leave, as well as additional wellness days. Each year, every team member receives a $1,000 self-development budget to invest in whatever fuels their personal growth.
We offer six months of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and four weeks of fully paid leave for secondary caregivers, along with a range of additional family-friendly benefits. To support your wellbeing, we offer subsidised health insurance through Southern Cross.
And finally, everyone at Halter is an owner. Every employee is part of our stock ownership plan; when we succeed, you share in that success.
Our office-first approach
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.
We’re office first, not office only. This means that working from the office every day is our default setting, but we flex when needed. Your growth, learning, and impact are truly unlimited here, and a big part of that comes from being together, solving problems, innovating, building context, and constantly learning from each other.
We have a state-of-the-art, dog-friendly office in the heart of Auckland City and a test farm in Morrinsville. Delicious snacks and drinks are readily available.
About Halter
At Halter, we’re 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 and revolutionizing grazing with Halter. People join Halter to do meaningful work. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DCVC, BOND, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse Ventures.
Join our team
If this opportunity sounds like you, please apply below by sending your cover letter explaining why you’re excited about this role and working at Halter, along with your CV.
If you think you have what it takes but don’t necessarily meet every requirement on this job description, please still get in touch. We’d love to chat to see if you’ll be an epic fit!
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70000 - 80000 NZD a year
