Senior Test Engineer - Production & Hardware Operations

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,...

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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Own production test strategy across products and sites, including coverage philosophy, fixture architecture, calibration approach, validation evidence, and readiness gates.
Lead architecture and delivery of production test systems that scale globally, ensuring stations, fixtures, instrumentation, software interfaces, and data flows are reliable and repeatable.
Set standards for production testing fixture architecture, instrumentation strategy, validation evidence, interface design, and ongoing maintenance/calibration.
Drive cross-functional execution for NPI and major ECNs with clear go/no-go calls, aligning fixture, process, product, firmware, and software trade-offs.
Create leverage through mentoring and technical leadership for production test engineers and technicians, while staying close to critical technical decisions.

Proven technical leadership of production test or test engineering teams, with experience taking test systems from development through production release and ongoing improvement.
Deep knowledge of test systems, fixture architecture, calibration, data pipelines, and factory operations, including how test coverage, yield data, traceability, and validation evidence are used to make production decisions.
Strong communicator; able to align Production Process, Machine Design, Product Design, Firmware, Production Software, Quality, and factory teams on complex technical programs, trade-offs, and readiness decisions.