Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Extend and harden Ocient's native geospatial engine: implement and optimize 120+ spatial functions, ensure spherical/geodetic numerical correctness, improve spatial indexing and query performance at trillion-row scale, deepen spatiotemporal operators (trajectory/interpolation), integrate geospatial features with the analytical engine, and produce design docs, tests, and benchmarks.

Design and deliver complex, scalable SaaS features end-to-end using AI-assisted development tools. Own specifications, implement and review AI-generated and human code, build REST APIs, maintain UI and backend services, drive AI-assisted workflows, and mentor cohort engineers on tooling, spec writing, and best practices.

Lead technical design and delivery of complex, scalable SaaS features using AI-assisted development. Own specification quality, implement and review AI-generated code, design REST APIs, mentor engineers, and drive cohort-wide standards for architecture, testing, and DevOps practices.

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.

Optimize Ubuntu integration across latest IoT and server-class hardware, lead customer engagements, and work with open source communities in a remote, collaborative environment.

Design, build, operate, and evolve backend services and runtime infrastructure for cloud orchestration and job execution. Own distributed, asynchronous systems, APIs, workers, persistence, and service-to-service coordination. Improve reliability, observability, testing, and operational tooling; lead cross-team designs and mentor engineers.

Design reproducible coding environments and high-quality reference solutions to train AI. Create and validate complex programming challenges, debug and optimize codebases, refactor legacy systems, document technical decisions, and review technical submissions while collaborating remotely.

Perform technical code review and analysis to determine originality and function, prepare memos and expert reports, rebut other experts, communicate with counsel and clients, prepare testifying experts, manage multiple engagements, and supervise junior staff.

Translate sketches and layouts into CAD construction drawings, prepare diagrams, special-item sketches and bills of materials, review and check detailed I&C drawings, perform site walkdowns for new and retrofit industrial installations, and support construction documentation and related duties.

Design high-performance C++ libraries for automated PCB design challenges, mentoring peers and shaping technical direction while collaborating with experts in various fields.

Design and implement a video processing engine, develop a cross-platform rendering engine, integrate systems, and optimize performance while collaborating with other engineers.

The Backend Engineer will design, build, and scale Veda's backend systems, ensuring reliability and performance for DeFi applications.

Design and develop immersive experiences using Unreal Engine, provide leadership to team members, optimize code, and ensure performance.

Design and implement embedded firmware and low-level software for server BMCs and GPU/HPC platforms. Enhance OpenBMC, enable real-time telemetry of power/thermal sensors, debug low-level drivers and interfaces, validate hardware-firmware integration, and contribute to long-term firmware architecture for cluster reliability.

Lead evaluation, design, prototyping, and integration of robotic manipulation and automation for autonomous vehicle operations in logistics yards. Champion vendor selection, system architecture, perception, motion planning, controls, and field validation to enable safety-critical tasks like automated trailer coupling.

Own and scale the search, indexing, and data-scanning infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Optimize hybrid lexical and vector retrieval for sub-second latency, design cost-effective hot/warm/cold data tiering and massive asynchronous scans, drive down latency and cost, and provide technical leadership for resilient, highly available indexing and retrieval systems.

Senior graphics engineer responsible for building and maintaining production-quality C++ gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, evolving rendering systems (lighting, materials, particles, post-process, shadows), collaborating with artists to implement stylized rendering and shaders, optimizing CPU/GPU/memory performance, and diagnosing/fixing graphics and pipeline issues.

Lead and manage engineers to design, build, and maintain production backend game services (sessions, matchmaking, progression). Diagnose incidents, participate in on-call, collaborate with cross-discipline teams, and produce clear technical documentation.

Develop core backend components for a blockchain network, focusing on reliability and scalability, mainly using Rust. Ensure code quality through testing and debugging.

Lead the design, development, and deployment of autonomous systems for heavy construction equipment while mentoring engineering teams and improving system performance.

Enhance and refactor an existing WinForms MES application integrating ERP and PLM systems, improve architecture for future development, deliver data collection, dashboards, and shop-floor functionality to support a paperless facility.

The E&C Post Order Manager oversees supplier management and coordination activities to ensure timely delivery of materials and equipment, compliance with project specifications, and efficient resolution of claims and issues.