Top C++ Jobs in Detroit, MI

Deploys, integrates, hardens, and operates modular C-UAS data and software platforms in secure DoD environments. Builds data pipelines across classification boundaries and disconnected conditions, integrates mission systems, manages Kubernetes-based infrastructure, supports accreditation, and handles observability, incident response, upgrades, and backup recovery. The role also documents solutions, trains mission teams, represents field needs to engineering, and mentors junior forward-deployed data engineers. Most work is remote with occasional travel to restricted environments and SCIFs.

Develop, test, maintain, and support enterprise applications and services using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Entity Framework Core, and SQL Server. Responsibilities include API and database integration, code reviews, automated testing, debugging, performance improvements, release readiness, production troubleshooting, and collaboration with product, architecture, QA, and operations teams.

Build and support complex features across C#/.NET back-end services and React front ends. Responsibilities include technical design, API and data modeling, secure and tested coding, production troubleshooting, code reviews, mentoring, documentation, and improving engineering practices. Collaborate with Product, QA, DevOps, Technical Leads, and architecture teams while balancing delivery, maintainability, performance, accessibility, observability, and security.

Develop and maintain macOS systems software using modern C++, Swift, and Objective-C++. Work with process models, IPC, Endpoint Security, Network Extension, security and cryptography APIs, device and storage frameworks, packaging, deployment, and MDM tooling. Profile and debug performance using Instruments, LLDB, os_log, and os_signpost, while creating tests with XCTest, sanitizers, fuzzing, and xcodebuild CI. Support shared codebases across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Develop and maintain cross-platform macOS systems software using modern C++, Swift, and Objective-C++. Work with IPC, daemons, system extensions, network and endpoint security, device and storage APIs, code signing, packaging, and deployment. Profile and debug performance issues, build automated tests and CI pipelines, and support Apple Silicon and Intel systems. Nice-to-have experience includes SwiftUI, AppKit, macOS beta testing, and shipping EDR, antivirus, network security, or device-management products.

Design, implement, test, and modernize backend services and integrations (TypeScript/Node.js and C++). Lead large projects, write technical specifications and API contracts, enforce coding standards, coach engineers, and drive legacy-to-modern migrations within online banking and core systems.

Build and lead high-performance browser features in modern C++ and Chromium, including tracker blocking, subscription integrations, and responsiveness monitoring. Own complex projects from proposal through post-mortem, solve ambiguous technical problems, make architecture decisions, collaborate asynchronously with product and design, and use metrics to evaluate outcomes in a large-scale consumer codebase.

Build and maintain scalable, cloud-native APIs and high-value core system components using .NET and related technologies. Lead software architecture and testing discussions, enhance core offerings, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure quality through code reviews, unit testing, functional testing, telemetry, and performance tuning. Mentor teammates and contribute to continuous technical and process improvement.

Develop and support full-stack web applications for Source-to-Pay business processes. Responsibilities include designing .NET solutions, developing front-end and back-end functionality, integrating RESTful services and databases, troubleshooting production issues, testing, documenting, supporting users, participating in architecture and code reviews, and mentoring junior developers. The role requires collaboration with business stakeholders and ownership of development projects.

Develops, tests, and deploys C++/.NET software for automated baggage handling and automated guided vehicle systems. Designs computer and network distribution applications on Windows platforms, analyzes requirements, creates technical specifications, supports documentation, and collaborates with engineering teams. The role may require travel to customer sites for commissioning and on-site engineering, as well as occasional extended-hours, weekend, holiday, or off-shift support.

Designs and implements instrumentation, controls, automation, and SCADA systems for water, wastewater, industrial, and environmental projects. Prepares engineering and construction documents, SCADA architectures, P&IDs, control narratives, schematics, specifications, and network designs. Leads project planning, budgeting, testing, startup, and client coordination. Programs PLCs, configures HMIs, supports electrical design, performs field commissioning, and mentors junior staff.

Lead modernization of a 30-year-old Store Management System by reverse engineering EZC file-based platforms, migrating data and applications to PostgreSQL, and developing enterprise C/C++ software. Responsibilities include architecture, systems integration, APIs, ETL, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, and maintaining business continuity. The role also applies AI-assisted development tools for code analysis, documentation, testing, and modernization while mentoring teams and supporting legacy and modern environments.

Design, develop, and maintain software for automotive data acquisition and device-to-cloud communication in the automotive testing industry.

Designs and leads safety-critical embedded firmware for automotive hardware safety and power systems. Responsibilities include architecting safe-state strategies, power sequencing, thermal monitoring, watchdog systems, low-level drivers, diagnostic frameworks, and HALs for ARM-based SoCs. The role requires FreeRTOS or SafeRTOS expertise, ISO 26262 ASIL-B/C knowledge, register-level debugging, hardware-software safety integration, code reviews, failure analysis, and mentoring engineers.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include architecture, modern C++ development, MPI/OpenMP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed networking, database internals, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues across large-scale clustered systems.

Design and develop massively parallel distributed database kernels for real-time analytics at terabyte and petabyte scale. Responsibilities include low-level C++ development, MPP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed communication using MPI and RDMA technologies, database internals, vector indexing, in-database machine learning, performance tuning, architecture reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include query execution, columnar storage, transaction management, cluster coordination, hardware-aware optimization, SIMD vectorization, RDMA networking, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.

The C# / .NET Developer will design and maintain middleware applications, build Shopify integrations, and support a mobile app backend in a remote work environment.

Develop user interface components for ArcGIS Pro using C# and WPF, work in an agile team, and design software solutions for raster and imagery processing.

PrivateID seeks a Principal C++ Engineer with at least 10 years of experience to lead complex systems and scale their platform in a remote-first environment.

You will develop and maintain components of the LLVM based toolchain, collaborating with the community while ensuring platform-specific optimizations and tests.

Perform civil/structural engineering and design tasks for power plant upgrades and new projects under senior supervision. Assist with calculations, modifications, equipment walkdowns, and design changes to improve plant performance, safety, and reliability. Work involves field and office duties, travel to client sites, and maintaining unescorted nuclear plant access.

Maintain and enhance the QLS-VO app server codebase using C and Pro*C. Develop TCP/IP socket code, write Oracle queries, compile on Linux, and perform testing and troubleshooting. Support Pro*C compilation and relational DB / Cron understanding.

Develop and optimize ultra-low-latency, high-performance trading infrastructure in modern C++. Implement and tune order execution, market data connectivity, multi-threaded systems, and risk modules. Profile and benchmark real-time systems, collaborate with quants and traders, and maintain robust, fault-tolerant continuous trading operations.

Develop and maintain mobile app and no-code quest editor, implement gameplay engine and server, design software architecture, and collaborate in one-week Scrum sprints using C++, Qt, QML, MySQL, and AI-assisted tools.