Research & Development Specialist

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. 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. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard.

We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, BOND, DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures.

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About the role

Halter is a dynamic fast paced workplace where our Guidance team is working on Halter’s market leading virtual fencing technology. We are transforming the agriculture industry globally, and you can be a part of that!

We are looking for a Research & Development Specialist to join the team that is continuously developing our virtual fencing product. Everything you need to know to nail this role you’ll learn on the job and you’ll have to work hard to keep up. In this role you’ll be supported to become an expert in virtual fencing. This role is primarily based in the Waikato on our R&D farm close to Morrinsville, where we’ve built our own office in an old calf barn, but you’ll also spend plenty of time in our HQ in Auckland.

The on-farm Research & Development crew has been around as long as Halter and had a huge impact on Halter’s journey; from developing the original Cowgorithm™to Halter’s expansion into the beef industry, Australia and the US. And we’re only just getting started, so we are looking for someone who is eager to get stuck in and join this unique team.

What does a Research & Development Specialist do?

As you’ll start to become familiar with the basics of our product, you’ll be supporting and running small projects. We’ll teach you how to use our internal tools to analyse all the data our collars generate and you’ll be testing and validating new versions of our software on our R&D farm.

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