Electronics Engineer

About the role

We're looking for an electronics engineer to take full ownership of key parts of our collar hardware. This isn't a support role, you'll be driving design decisions, solving complex problems in the field, and seeing your work through from concept to mass deployment. You'll work across everything from ultra-low power design, RF optimisation, antenna tuning, and solar conversion, to battery systems, audio, and high-voltage pulse circuits. It's deeply technical and fast-moving, the kind of environment where strong engineers thrive.

Key responsibilities

Rapidly design, develop, and test highly reliable electronics for world-leading animal wearables and infrastructure

End-to-end electronic design ownership including component selection, analysis, simulation, schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, debugging, documentation, manufacturing, and testing

Consistently innovate to improve reliability and hardware performance while minimizing cost to hit ambitious targets

Collaborate with firmware, advanced systems, mechanical, production and farm teams

Design for manufacturing, design for testing, and design for EMC

Develop and execute validation plans to verify all critical features

Root cause analysis of manufacturing and field returns, providing clinical feedback for design improvements

About you

A tertiary degree in Electronics Engineering, or similar relevant qualification

At least 1+ years' professional experience, having grown your craft at a larger engineering organisation before taking on more autonomy

Proven experience designing reliable electronics hardware and successfully delivering those designs into high-volume mass production, ideally including full product lifecycle ownership

Experience designing and implementing circuit boards using MCUs, SoCs, IMUs, GPS, WiFi, LoRa, I2C, SPI, OpAmps, ADCs/DACs, SMPS, LDO and analog/digital mixed-signal design

Experience in ultra-low power IoT electronics design - power generation (solar, high voltage generation and insulation), power conversion (DC-DC), and power consumption/usage optimisation

Proficiency with EE tools (SPICE simulation, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, signal generators, LCR meters, current clamps, HV meters, etc.)

Strong organisation, time management, and communication skills

Ability to thrive in a self-driven and demanding startup atmosphere

Based in Auckland, with travel as required to China and Thailand predominantly