Senior Talent Specialist - Hardware

The role

You will own end-to-end recruitment for hardware engineering roles. You will source and hire specialists including embedded, electrical, mechanical, and RF engineers.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruitment for hardware engineering roles across regions.
• Build and maintain proactive pipelines of hardware talent.
• Develop understanding of hardware engineering skill sets and toolchains.
• Partner with hardware engineering leaders to understand requirements.
• Contribute to talent strategy and workforce planning.
• Help shape and evolve the EVP for hardware engineering audiences.
• Build scalable recruitment practices and tooling.
• Upskill and enable hardware hiring managers through coaching.
• Partner on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Represent Halter at engineering events, university programmes, and industry forums.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in talent acquisition with a significant focus on hardware engineering recruitment.
• Proven track record sourcing and closing hardware talent in competitive, niche markets.
• Experience recruiting across multiple hardware disciplines and regions.
• Strong technical literacy regarding hardware stacks, design tools, and engineering trade-offs.
• Strategic business partner capable of operating at exec reporting level and day-to-day hiring.
• Ability to deliver high-quality hires at pace in a fast-moving, high-volume environment.
• Strong data and reporting skills.
• Familiarity with employment laws, immigration, and compliance across New Zealand and Australia.
• High emotional intelligence.
• Excellent communication.
• Proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-growth or product-led tech environments

Benefits

• Personal growth fund

About the company

Halter enables farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations. The company is backed by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund and Blackbird.