Hardware Test Engineering Manager

Hardware Test Engineering Manager 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 https://foundersfund.com, Bessemer Venture Partners https://www.bvp.com/, BOND, https://www.bondcap.com/ DCVC https://www.dcvc.com/, Blackbird https://www.blackbird.vc/, Promus Ventures https://www.promusventures.com/, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures https://www.icehouseventures.co.nz/?utm_term=icehouse%20ventures&utm_campaign=Brand+Keywords&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=4064636360&hsa_cam=16902737884&hsa_grp=134004309485&hsa_ad=592971340272&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-1082530126230&hsa_kw=icehouse%20ventures&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY0J0DepRVFDmjQlAkJPbZuQnLSA5UVzUzOXYiPxkjX-SeVa513_BhkaAr-MEALw_wcB. To find out more, visit our LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/halter-limited & Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeathalter/. Halter is flipping the livestock world on its head. We’re scaling fast across NZ, Aus, and the US, lining up multiple new international markets, and the stakes are high. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for a Hardware Test Engineering Manager to build and lead our in-house Test Engineering pillar within the broader Reliability Function. Our collar is tough and built for the beating it takes day in and day out on a farm. We’ve iterated it to this point and learnt many tough lessons along the way. We’re looking for someone who can take testing from a learned art to an applied science at Halter. Someone who can use a test program and evidence to accelerate Halter’s growth as a strategic advantage, to help us move forward confidently on multiple product lines in parallel. This will be one of the most important roles we hire this year. Hardware is only getting more important strategically for Halter, and you’ll be right at the core, making that happen. It’s a rare opportunity to accelerate your career with unique and valuable experience in a high-performance, fast-paced environment where reliability matters. This role reports to our Head of Reliability & Failure Analysis and owns the mission of delivering repeatable, trustworthy evidence that drives confident product decisions. WHAT YOU’LL OWN Your team produces the evidence that decides whether we ship, whether we hold, and what we fix next. You will build the systems, data, and operating rhythm that let Halter move quickly and confidently. Build scalable, reliable test capability: - Own our test infrastructure: environmental chambers, test rigs, DAQ systems, instrumentation, automation, calibration, and procedures. The barrier to running a brilliant test will shrink substantially. - Raise throughput while holding the line on evidence quality and repeatability. Make test data decision-grade: - Ensure all test data is trustworthy, searchable, and used in real product calls. - Build the foundations for strong test governance: traceability, calibration and versioning. - Ensure test data captured is sufficient to inform the pass/fail criteria pre-determined by the reliability engineering team. Collect evidence for ... (truncated, view full listing at source)