Software Engineering Internships 2026

About this role

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/.

We're looking for interns across our Software, Platform, Machine Learning and Comms/Fleet Engineering teams at Halter! These aren't typical internships - you'll be a fully-fledged member of the team, given real ownership and responsibility from day one. Halter is one system: hardware, software, and AI, running live on real farms. Our engineering teams own different slices of that system, but the problems all rhyme: turning thousands of collars and billions of sensor events into a single, calm decision in a farmer's hand. You could be building the mobile and web experiences farmers rely on at 5am in a paddock, designing platforms and pipelines that scale at pace, or developing cutting-edge ML models that predict pasture growth and animal health. Every team here ships software that has to work in a paddock, not just a browser tab.

This internship will run from mid-to-late November 2026 and end in February 2027. It will be onsite & full-time 40 hours a week over this period.

Applications will close Friday 10th of July 2026.

We have 4 key teams we're hiring for:

1. Software Engineering - building the farmer-facing apps (mobile/web) and the backend services processing billions of real-time collar events

2. Platform Engineering - internal infrastructure, data ingestion, AWS/Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and AI tooling that helps all engineers move faster

3. Machine Learning (Predictive Systems) - pasture growth models, animal health & behaviour, heat event detection, grazing recommendations, and the rich farm datasets that power it all

4. Communications & Fleet Engineering - the connectivity + internal tooling that keep the product reliable in the real world: how collars communicate with the backend, on-farm comms health, and the internal tools used to live‑view and manage the fleet

WHAT YOUR DAY COULD LOOK LIKE

Software Engineering (Frontend, Backend, or Full Stack):

- Building and shipping features that solve real world problems end-to-end - from the farmer-facing mobile and web surfaces through to the services and infrastructure behind them.

- Writing clean, performant code across modern frontend frameworks (React, React Native) and backend services (Node.js, Kotlin, Go).

- Working on distributed, event-driven systems that process data from our fleet of collars across NZ, Australia, and the US; where latency, reliability, and offline behaviour are important considerations.

- Contributing to code reviews, design conversations, and context-sharing with your team.

Platform Engineering:

- Building internal tooling and infrastructure that gives every other engineer at Halter leverage.

- Working with AWS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling at scale.

- Supporting the reliability and performance of our systems end-to-end as we scale.

- Exploring and implementing AI tooling that reshapes how engineers and others work.

Machine Learning:

- Developing predictive models of pasture growth, animal health, behaviour, and farm operations.

- Development of end-to-end ML pipelines: from dataset construction and model training through to deployment and monitoring.

- Conducting literature reviews to stay at the cutting edge of both machine learning and agricultural science.

- Working with rich, novel datasets to build systems that directly improve farming outcomes.

Communications & Fleet Engineering:

- Comms: building the connectivity and communications systems that enable the product to work reliably in the real world - including towers/on‑farm equipment setup, comms health on farm, the backend messaging layer, and the pathways different product functions use to talk to the collar.

- Fleet Engineering: building internal tooling to live‑view and manage the fleet - with different views for finance and monitoring - plus tooling that supports tracking firmware, Guidance, and Behaviour.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

- Someone with the right attitude - deeply curious, driven to learn, and energised by what we're building at Halter.

- A student passionate about their field and actively engaged in relevant extracurricular activities (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related…