Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, test, and operate production-grade, secure, and scalable software and services. Partner with customers to translate requirements into technical designs, drive engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, observability), deliver end-to-end solutions, lead technical workstreams, and apply AI/LLM approaches where appropriate to produce production-ready outcomes.

Lead a cross-discipline engineering team to deliver production-ready, AI-enabled solutions across the full lifecycle. Coach engineers and data scientists, manage a portfolio of engagements, act as player‑coach on select projects, strengthen multidisciplinary practices, and champion responsible, hypervelocity AI engineering and reusable accelerators.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based software solutions; collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams; create design documents; write and refactor code; act as a designated responsible individual (DRI) for services, monitor and respond to incidents, and drive reliability, observability, and performance improvements.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop and build tools for creative projects while leading feature development and collaborating with teammates.

Design, develop, maintain, and enhance APIs and application programs for EV charging networks. Interface with business and operations for requirements, deliver prototypes, implement solutions, and provide production support, testing, and documentation. Support deployments, SOX controls, and coordinate with vendors and cross-functional teams.

Contract software engineer to design and implement C++ (C++11) libraries and APIs within an existing framework. Work involves high-performance and parallel programming (MPI/OpenMP), Linux-based development, performance-aware coding, and collaborating with a team to extend and integrate software designs. Seismic/geoscience experience and open-source contributions are a plus.

Develop and implement advanced application engineering solutions, collaborate with teams, resolve technical issues, and ensure customer satisfaction.

The Senior Engineer I-Software Development designs and develops web-based Management Software for storage products, collaborating with various teams and delivering quality applications adhering to customer requirements.

Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements, design and configure Salesforce and SiteTracker solutions, build Apex/LWC/Flows, support integrations and testing, deploy changes, and provide production support and continuous improvements.

Lead development of spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Control systems through full lifecycle: requirements, design, simulation, algorithms, flight software, and verification. Develop simulation tools, drive reuse of heritage Airbus products, support subsystem requirements and integration, and optimize designs for cost, manufacturability, and testing. Collaborate cross-functionally across spacecraft, payload, and launch integration activities.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance C++ systems for ultra-low-latency media streaming. Build and improve streaming pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP/RTCP), analyze performance across server, network, and media pipelines, and collaborate with encoding, cloud networking, and systems teams to define KPIs and reduce latency for cloud gaming and related use cases.

Design and implement realistic cloud infrastructure environments and reproducible distributed-system scenarios to evaluate AI model behavior. Build validation tests, golden references, and failure variants; document architectures and operational flows. Apply DevOps and automation to deliver secure, scalable systems and collaborate with technical leads on acceptance criteria.

Contribute expert-level code samples, implement and optimize features, debug complex defects, refactor legacy code, document technical decisions for AI training, and review peer submissions across Python3, Java, Rust, Go, C++, and TypeScript codebases in a part-time remote contract role.

Design, develop, test, review, and maintain high-availability EMS and grid automation software (load flow, contingency evaluation, state estimation, operator training simulators). Apply power system modeling, simulation, optimization, and numerical methods; collaborate in Agile teams across Linux and Windows; troubleshoot technical issues and ensure regulatory compliance.

Design, develop, and maintain advanced software systems. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams. Write clean, scalable code, perform code reviews, debug complex issues, and stay current with technologies.

Lead development and implementation of advanced refinery blending application solutions, collaborate with product, sales, and manufacturing, provide technical customer support, troubleshoot complex issues, drive continuous improvement, and present technical solutions to stakeholders.

Lead development and implementation of advanced refinery blending application solutions. Collaborate with product, sales, and manufacturing teams, provide technical customer support, troubleshoot complex process control issues, drive continuous improvement, and present technical solutions to stakeholders to improve application performance and customer satisfaction.

Develop and optimize detection, tracking, and multi-sensor fusion algorithms (Kalman/particle filters, multi-target tracking) for resource-constrained UAVs. Train and deploy neural networks for ATR, design distributed swarm fusion, validate against flight data and simulation, and optimize models for real-time edge inference. Travel up to 25% for tests.

Develop and maintain embedded firmware and kernel/user-mode device drivers for Ethernet-based networking devices. Design, implement, test, and integrate drivers into a Linux and AUTOSAR communication stack, build SDK components, and create debug/test utilities and automated unit/system tests for safety-critical automotive applications.

Lead design and implementation of batch and stream loading systems to ingest terabytes daily. Provide technical leadership on the Streamloader team, collaborate with architects, engineers, product, sales, and customers, and develop high-performance distributed software in C++ and/or Java while ensuring system reliability and customer success.

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

Design, develop, optimize, and debug ultra low-latency C++ streaming systems and media pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP). Analyze performance across CPU, memory, networking, and scheduling. Integrate streaming software with platform services across Windows, Linux, QNX, and embedded platforms. Define KPIs for networking and streaming quality and troubleshoot across software, OS, platform, and hardware boundaries.

Own design, implementation, and production support of Windows kernel-mode enforcement drivers (filesystem, process/thread, handles, registry) and the kernel/user-mode enforcement boundary. Reduce enforcement latency at scale, extend enforcement to containers and isolation, ensure compatibility across Windows builds, handle driver signing and deployment, collaborate cross-platform on policy and the Rust userspace agent, and mentor engineers while driving technical direction and operational stability.

Lead macOS endpoint enforcement: design and own userspace agent, synchronous allow/deny path, Network Extension content filtering, performance and stability across macOS versions and hardware, mentor engineers, and represent macOS in cross-platform policy and architecture decisions.