Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Build high-performance, scalable simulation infrastructure and tooling for autonomous vehicle development. Design systems for scenario generation, simulation execution, synthetic data, and reinforcement-learning workflows. Collaborate with ML, perception, and controls teams to improve realism, performance, and validation pipelines while writing production-quality C++ and Python code, contributing to architecture, testing, and documentation.

Own the technical success of strategic customer deployments from design through production. Collaborate with customer architects, operators, and developers to optimize infrastructure, debug distributed systems and storage issues, build automation and API solutions, and translate operational needs into product improvements. Serve as the customer advocate within engineering while managing high-stakes technical challenges and deployment expectations. Travel or work onsite at customer locations up to 25%.

Develop and integrate mission-critical software within the TAK ecosystem, including ATAK, WinTAK, MILTAK, and TAK Server. Build CoT data pipelines, low-latency APIs, sensor and intelligence data ingestion systems, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and edge-deployed applications. Troubleshoot tactical networks and integration issues while translating defense mission requirements into scalable solutions. The role requires significant TAK ecosystem experience, multiple programming languages, security clearance, and up to 25% travel.

Develop and implement advanced blending application solutions for refinery process modeling, advanced process control, and real-time optimization. Collaborate with product, sales, manufacturing, customers, and other stakeholders to execute projects, resolve complex technical issues, improve application performance, and lead technical discussions. The role requires expertise in refinery operations, blending or off-site tank farms, Honeywell DCS platforms, programming, and customer-facing engineering support, with up to 30% travel to customer sites.

Develop and implement blending application engineering solutions for refinery process modeling, advanced process control, and real-time optimization. Collaborate with product development, sales, manufacturing, customers, and other stakeholders to execute projects, resolve complex technical issues, improve application performance, and support customer satisfaction. Lead technical discussions and presentations, contribute to technical documentation, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

The Technical Lead will architect and implement systems for data processing and testing workflows in the autonomous vehicle development space, optimize software engineering practices, and guide a team of engineers.

Build simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Develop tools that model hypothetical scenarios, vary configurations and assumptions, compare outcomes, surface tradeoffs, and identify risks. Design scalable, reliable backend systems for complex, evolving network states while collaborating across product engineering to integrate capabilities into broader workflows. Responsibilities span system design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational support.

Develop and maintain scalable gameplay systems focused on enemy, boss, and ally behaviors for AAA games. Collaborate with content and engineering teams, architect flexible features, optimize performance, review code, mentor junior programmers, estimate work, and drive architecture development for enemy behavior systems.

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 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.

Develop, test, and optimize ultrasonic and electromagnetic inspection systems for tubular products. Design and improve inspection procedures, troubleshoot field and manufacturing issues, analyze inspection data, validate systems, support deployments, and communicate findings to engineering, operations, and customers.

Support development, testing, and optimization of ultrasonic and electromagnetic inspection systems for tubular products. Design and improve inspection procedures, troubleshoot field and manufacturing issues, analyze inspection data, validate systems, support commissioning, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deploy and improve NDT solutions.

Develop and implement ultrasonic and electromagnetic inspection systems and NDE methodologies for tubular goods. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, support field operations with scan plans, investigate inspection issues, and communicate technical findings through reports and presentations.

Design, analyze, and support robotic and electromechanical systems for automated pipe handling and drilling operations. Create mechanical designs, perform stress and tolerance analyses, develop test plans and fixtures, specify components, validate hardware/software, collaborate with vendors, enforce standards, and lead commissioning and acceptance testing at NOV and customer sites.

Lead turbomachinery design and product development: perform FEA, rotordynamics and hand calculations; select components/materials; approve manufacturing drawings; support aftermarket, startup, commissioning, root-cause analyses, cost reduction, vendor and customer integration, and development of standardized engineering deliverables and tools.

Design, implement, and validate autonomy software for mining vehicles including perception, localization, mapping, motion planning, and control. Integrate and calibrate LiDAR, camera, radar, IMU/GNSS sensors; build embedded real-time software; develop simulation and data pipelines; and lead bench, rig, and field validation while collaborating with hardware and controls teams.

Design, develop, test, and maintain software for enterprise and embedded systems using C/C++, Python, and LabVIEW. Lead projects, mentor junior engineers, troubleshoot complex defects, create technical documentation, support deployments, and ensure compliance with AS9100/ISO processes.

The Senior Backend Engineer develops core product features in ETL and GraphQL, designs APIs, builds ETL pipelines, and collaborates with frontend teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end systems and APIs/SDKs for an enterprise custody platform. Work full-stack across databases, cloud deployments, CI/CD, and security; troubleshoot issues, integrate emerging technologies, and mentor junior engineers.

The Staff Research Engineer - Code will lead the creation of datasets and reinforcement learning environments for coding agents, collaborating with AI labs to influence model improvements and operational excellence, while managing a technical team.

Develop and maintain checkers for competitive programming problems allowing multiple valid outputs, verify participant submissions, write clear C++ code, document logic, collaborate with customers, and provide feedback to improve test cases and checkers.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop high-performance software for executing open-source LLMs on custom hardware, focusing on optimizations and efficient libraries primarily in C++.

Pipeline for software engineering roles at multiple levels. Work may include design, development, testing of embedded or application software, firmware and hardware-software integration, code review, debugging, performance optimization, Agile/Scrum practices, and cross-functional collaboration with systems, controls, and hardware teams.

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.

The Staff Platform Engineer will lead the architecture, development, and scaling of API-based transaction processing systems, ensuring reliability and performance while mentoring other engineers.