Senior Wireless Network Engineer – IoT & Edge

Halter; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mesh networking (bonus)

Telemetry systems

Provisioning automation

Job summary

Halter is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own the performance, reliability, and scalability of our collar and tower network. You will diagnose field issues, design architecture to prevent them, and set technical direction as Halter grows.

This senior, hands-on role expects you to handle gnarliest wireless and infrastructure problems and to lead cross-functional efforts ensuring robust real-time telemetry from devices in the field to the Halter platform.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale wireless networks (LPWAN/LoRa, cellular).
• Ownership of network architecture end-to-end and in production.
• Comfort with RF, tower hardware, edge devices and cloud systems.
• Experience with observability/monitoring for distributed IoT systems.
• Mentored engineers and led through ambiguous, hard problems.
• Willingness to visit farms to understand field performance.

Responsibilities

• Work across technical and commercial teams to translate on-farm connectivity challenges into actionable requirements to improve Halter's IoT network performance.
• Own the operation and optimisation of Halter's collar and tower network, ensuring robust performance, scalability, and minimal downtime.
• Design and evolve the network architecture, focusing on wireless protocols (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.
• Lead tower deployment strategy, including site selection, configuration, provisioning automation, and remote management.
• Help set the technical vision for the network discipline alongside technical leaders.
• Collaborate with firmware, backend, and product teams to ensure end-to-end data flow.
• Contribute to cross-functional design discussions ensuring networking considerations are represented in product decisions.
• Own rollout and support of networking tools and diagnostics for multi-terrain operation.
• Mentor fellow engineers and share best practices in wireless networking and high-availability systems.
• Implement observability for network performance via data pipelines and tooling.
• Plan and prioritise work within the Network team for rapid value delivery.
• Stay updated on wireless networking, mesh architectures, spectrum management, and rural connectivity.
• Join on-call rotation to support uptime and incident resolution.
• Other tasks as needed in a fast-paced, mission-driven team.

Skills

LoRa network design

Wireless infrastructure

Network architecture

Observability/monitoring

Mentoring engineers

Field work readiness

Telemetry data pipelines

Edge-to-cloud data flow

Job description

Halter is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to own the performance, reliability, and scalability of our collar and tower network. You will diagnose field issues, design architecture to prevent them, and set technical direction as Halter grows.

This senior, hands-on role expects you to handle gnarliest wireless and infrastructure problems and to lead cross-functional efforts ensuring robust real-time telemetry from devices in the field to the Halter platform.