Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead HPC and AI benchmarking across CPU, GPU, networking, memory, and storage platforms. Analyze scientific, engineering, LLM, training, inference, and I/O workloads; identify bottlenecks; and optimize applications, frameworks, libraries, compilers, runtimes, and system software. Apply parallel computing, GPU acceleration, profiling, and memory and I/O optimization while translating findings into customer-focused recommendations.

Develop high-performance research platforms and tools that bring trading strategies to life. Work in small teams to design, build, and deploy resilient systems using distributed computing, NLP, and machine learning to solve large-data problems in finance.

Leads software engineering for a strategic index platform supporting trading, sales, structuring, risk, P&L, execution, booking, market data, and client applications. Manages global programs and projects, collaborates with stakeholders and technology teams, influences architecture and design, and delivers reliable, well-tested software. Requires strong large-scale development expertise, business partnership, Agile practices, and ownership through production. Financial markets or investment banking application development experience is preferred.

Leads the architecture, development, integration, simulation, testing, and fielding of advanced autonomy capabilities for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include radar and RF signal processing, sensing, perception, guidance, navigation, control, sensor fusion, electronic protection, vehicle simulation, requirements development, hardware integration, technical reviews, customer engagement, and mentoring engineering teams.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Develop state estimation and navigation algorithms for autonomous systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Build production-grade C++ software for embedded Linux robotic platforms, create modeling and simulation tools, and implement comprehensive testing and validation. Collaborate on roadmap planning and agile execution while improving benchmarking and performance-analysis pipelines. The role requires professional C++ expertise, state estimation algorithm experience, sensor-fusion familiarity, and the ability to deploy reliable autonomy software.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Develop and maintain scalable Java and Spring Boot REST services, APIs, and microservices for mission-critical geospatial systems. Support containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps automation, testing, infrastructure deployment, data platforms, and third-party integrations. Contribute to architecture, performance optimization, troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder demos, and Agile delivery. The role requires onsite work in Herndon, Virginia and collaboration on national security missions.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Leads performance engineering across the organization by designing load-testing and data-generation frameworks, defining benchmarks and standards, analyzing application, database, and system behavior, and guiding teams in performance optimization. Builds reusable tooling and best practices using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB while addressing scalability, latency, throughput, and reliability challenges in distributed cloud-native systems.

Own and evolve enterprise CI/CD release pipelines, with emphasis on continuous delivery, progressive rollouts, automated health checks, rollback, and multi-service releases. Lead Terraform and multi-cloud IaC architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including reusable modules, state management, governance, security, compliance, and cost controls. Drive organization-wide IaC adoption, monitor deployments and infrastructure, respond to incidents, and mentor engineering teams.

Design and implement a distributed query optimization system for MongoDB. Research query systems, architect features, write and review production-quality C++ code, debug large codebases, coordinate cross-team integrations, and mentor engineers while shaping long-term roadmap and performance improvements.

Develops, integrates, tests, and validates safety-critical guidance, navigation, and control algorithms and flight software for NASA deep-space exploration. Performs six-degree-of-freedom simulations, flight and simulation software analyses, requirements verification, and process improvement. Uses MATLAB, Simulink, Autocode, Python, C, and C++ while collaborating with NASA personnel and contractors.

Develop and maintain onboard infrastructure for autonomous driving systems, including sensor drivers, health management, middleware, diagnostics, logging, recovery, and real-time data handling. Optimize autonomous driving software for embedded systems and onboard computing platforms, focusing on low latency, deterministic performance, computational efficiency, reliability, and system integration.

Develop and improve autonomous truck planning and control algorithms using C++ and Python. Investigate driving issues through simulation, vehicle data, logs, and code analysis; design rigorous experiments; analyze failures and regressions; document reproducible results; and collaborate with validation and simulation engineers on testing and autonomy-stack integration.

Develop and test GN&C flight software and automation for lunar spacecraft missions. Responsibilities include C/C++ development, real-time software, HWIL and SWIL integration, sensor and effector testing, 6-DOF simulations, navigation and flight-control analysis, and spacecraft performance evaluation. The role collaborates across software and hardware teams and requires on-site work in Houston or Glen Burnie.

Develop and maintain a C++ automation QA framework for validating data center storage solutions. Create automated tests, improve testing capabilities, debug test and product failures, maintain continuous-testing hardware and software, and collaborate with QA and development teams using Agile practices.

Develop and maintain automated calibration systems using LabVIEW, integrating NI hardware and third-party instrumentation. Build automated test procedures, user interfaces, data management solutions, and measurement workflows. Collaborate with metrology teams to align procedures with calibration standards and uncertainty requirements. Troubleshoot software, hardware, and procedure issues; document systems; train users; and communicate technical solutions to customers and stakeholders.

Leads and manages an 8–10-person storage engineering team responsible for MongoDB’s transactional read/write path, durability, availability, performance, indexing, and storage architecture. Owns the roadmap, customer escalations, cross-team initiatives, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and execution. Partners with Replication, Query, Sharding, Atlas, and other teams on distributed systems and workload-management improvements.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Research and analyze vehicle network signals, OEM telematics data, wiring diagrams, and field logs to expand vehicle telemetry coverage. Capture and interpret vehicle network data using live debugging, log analysis, scraping, reverse engineering, and custom scripts. Validate solutions on vehicles and at customer locations, document findings, and collaborate with global engineering and product teams to support new telematics capabilities.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Build scalable, API-first platform capabilities through manifest-driven development. Develop Java and Kotlin backend services and Python workers for third-party integrations, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in architecture reviews, and troubleshoot production systems using logs, metrics, and traces. The role requires expertise in highly scalable systems, object-oriented design, REST services, relational databases, responsive messaging, caching, and software quality practices.