Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and optimize GPU-accelerated numerical linear algebra libraries for AI and high-performance computing. Design kernel generation, JIT compilation, matrix operations, and operator fusions; lead projects involving multiple engineers and teams; provide technical mentorship; collaborate with product management and customers on requirements and roadmaps; and improve performance and maintainability through architectural enhancements.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Translate product requirements into scalable, secure, modular designs; write well-tested code; lead design and code reviews; guide agile sprint teams; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also contributes to technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes engineering best practices.

Develop and support NVIDIA CUDA Math Libraries across emerging and specialized platforms. Responsibilities include platform integration, functional qualification, defect triage, bug fixing, performance benchmarking, regression resolution, and building CI/CD qualification pipelines. The role requires high-performance numerical software development using C++ and Python, parallel computing, numerical methods, and software architecture, with preferred experience in CUDA, GPU computing, math libraries, cross-platform development, and embedded or safety-critical systems.

Design and optimize carrier networking solutions, support RFP/RFQ responses, and provide technical guidance for network planning and deployment. The role develops specifications, evaluates products and vendors, creates sales engineering tools, analyzes network economics and roadmap impacts, and collaborates with marketing, product, sales, optical, and software engineering teams. Expertise in carrier-class optical and IP networking, scripting, planning tools, and DWDM systems is required.

Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical guidance on simulation and networking, and collaborate with designers, artists, content creators, and engine teams to develop game-building systems and tools for an unannounced PlayStation project from pre-production through release.

Develop and analyze safety-critical flight software requirements, architecture, interfaces, documentation, and verification activities for NASA’s Moon Base program. Identify software vulnerabilities, support cybersecurity risk mitigation, maintain requirements traceability, coordinate defect resolution and milestone reviews, and oversee compliance with NASA software engineering standards. The role also supports integration testing, software tools and scripts, technical assessments, and collaboration with NASA and contractor engineering teams.

Develop, integrate, test, debug, and maintain high-fidelity real-time spacecraft simulation software supporting NASA Orion and Artemis missions. Build C++ and Python systems in Linux, conduct software verification across multiple test levels, support 6-DoF simulation and spacecraft test environments, maintain requirements traceability and configuration management, and collaborate with engineering teams and government customers.

Design, implement, maintain, integrate, and test flight software for Nebula spacecraft. Responsibilities include hardware/software integration, I/O performance assessment, serial and packetized communications, unit and integration testing, and collaboration with hardware engineering teams.

Develops and maintains high-fidelity spacecraft simulation models, including environmental, vehicle, sensor, effector, and interface models. Responsibilities include real-time and faster-than-real-time simulation, HWIL testing, FDIR fault modeling, verification and unit testing, SQA tool development, and support for flight software, ground software, and operations teams. The role collaborates with aerospace, GNC, vehicle software, and subsystem engineers.

Own embedded perception sensor systems from hardware bring-up through production. Develop camera drivers, device tree overlays, and low-latency sensor pipelines on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. Build multi-sensor synchronization, calibration, and validation infrastructure, while partnering with electrical engineers and silicon vendors. Qualify sensors for harsh industrial environments involving heat, vibration, EMI, welding arcs, and ingress. Support perception and autonomy teams as the technical authority on sensor capabilities.

Leads optical navigation engineering across lunar and interplanetary missions. Responsibilities include designing and testing optical navigation and camera systems, operational analysis, camera calibration, image processing, planetary terrain modeling, software architecture, flight software development, verification, risk mitigation, and mission support. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages multiple projects, mentors engineers, oversees schedules and budgets, and communicates technical results to stakeholders and executives.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Define multi-generation hardware/software architectures for AI inference silicon, including boot, memory, DMA, scheduling, security, telemetry, and host/device interfaces. Integrate firmware, Linux, runtimes, simulation, and developer tooling; lead architecture reviews; resolve cross-team technical issues; prototype high-risk interfaces; and mentor senior engineers. The role requires deep systems expertise, strong C or C++ skills, and architecture-level ownership across pre-silicon, silicon bring-up, and production software.

Own web compatibility triage and incident response across DuckDuckGo browsers on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. Debug complex web applications and third-party code, distinguish site, browser, and privacy-related issues, reverse-engineer obfuscated code, build durable cross-platform fixes, and develop automation and LLM agent tooling to reproduce and triage breakage. Lead ambiguous projects independently and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic customers to design and operate large-scale data infrastructure, troubleshoot distributed systems and networking issues, develop automation and APIs, and translate deployment challenges into product improvements. The role requires deep expertise in storage, Linux internals, high-performance networking, Python and C/C++, plus customer-facing communication and up to 25% travel.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Performs hands-on mechanical and electrical testing of electric and internal-combustion forklifts. Develops test plans, cases, scripts, automated fixtures, and custom setups; conducts performance, functional, and durability tests; analyzes results; troubleshoots issues with cross-functional teams; and maintains test documentation and reports.

Own the assessment, hardening, testing, modernization, and sustainment of a government SDN software baseline. Develop secure C++ and Python solutions, remediate vulnerabilities, improve testing, debug application and network issues, and support containerization, CI/CD, deployment, and security scanning. Collaborate with platform engineers and government stakeholders, document technical decisions, validate releases, and mentor engineers in Navy environments.

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Build and maintain low-latency connectivity APIs and integrations with crypto exchanges, OTC desks, brokers, and other trading venues. Develop order routing, trade execution, and real-time data ingestion systems using REST, WebSocket, and FIX. Monitor connections and data pipelines, improve reliability and observability with Grafana and Prometheus, collaborate on exchange onboarding, and create automated tests for production readiness.

Develop and verify firmware for battery safety, fuel gauging, charging, thermal management, power management, USB-C, and embedded Linux systems. Build automated battery test fixtures, analyze fleet-wide metrics, diagnose returned products, profile battery runtime, and collaborate with electrical engineers and vendors. Create test plans, design documentation, and failure analyses while reviewing AI-assisted code and mentoring teammates.

Maintains AWS infrastructure supporting PLM applications for DoD customers. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, Ansible automation, database administration, application installation and patching, security updates, performance tuning, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and infrastructure scaling. Requires AWS and Security+ certifications, enterprise cloud experience, Linux and Windows administration, database expertise, an active or obtainable U.S. national security clearance, and potential travel to customer sites.