Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, high-quality code; translate product requirements into scalable designs; lead design, code, and sprint activities; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role also drives technical strategy, resolves delivery impediments, and promotes secure, maintainable, and reusable engineering solutions.

The role involves architecting and operating NVIDIA's cloud-native attestation platform, developing high-availability services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Conduct HPC and scientific application benchmarking, optimize performance on HPE systems, analyze bottlenecks across compute, memory, accelerators, interconnects, MPI, and I/O, and provide technical guidance to sales, marketing, development, and customers. The role requires expertise in Linux-based HPC environments, parallel programming, performance analysis, GPU technologies, storage systems, and large-scale application scaling.

As a Sr. Software Engineer at Bloomerang, you will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and enhance SaaS solutions while utilizing .NET and AI tools. You will ensure scalable, maintainable applications, advocate for Agile workflows, and focus on quality outcomes in software development.

Designs and optimizes aerodynamic flowpaths for turboexpanders, centrifugal compressors, and related turbomachinery. Performs CFD, 1D, 2D, and 3D analyses, performance predictions, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis. Develops engineering tools and collaborates across design, simulation, manufacturing, proposals, and process engineering teams to improve equipment efficiency, reliability, and competitiveness.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Design and implement secure, scalable backend services for speech inference and audio processing. Optimize networking, transcoding, latency, memory, and distributed compute orchestration. Measure and improve system performance, debug complex networking/scheduling/HPC issues, customize services for customers, and partner with Product to deliver features end-to-end.

Design, develop, and modernize enterprise-scale applications, RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. Build cloud-neutral solutions across AWS and Azure, support legacy application migrations, participate in architecture and code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document technical designs, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes scalable, secure, high-performance backend systems, technical leadership, and engineering best practices.

Build and maintain scalable, cloud-native APIs and high-value core system components using .NET and related technologies. Lead software architecture and testing discussions, enhance core offerings, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure quality through code reviews, unit testing, functional testing, telemetry, and performance tuning. Mentor teammates and contribute to continuous technical and process improvement.

Serve as the senior technical contact for OEM Federal deployments of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated platforms. Own customer issues end to end, including troubleshooting, failure analysis, RMA procedures, root-cause investigation, and coordination with OEM support and NVIDIA engineering. Support secure Federal environments such as FedRAMP, IL5/IL6, and air-gapped SCIF facilities while maintaining sanitization and chain-of-custody requirements. Analyze multi-GPU systems, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and distributed workloads, with up to 35% travel.

Lead technical ownership of InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations for hyperscale AI supercomputers. Drive incident response, deep multi-layer debugging across hardware/firmware/drivers/OS, and define failure models, playbooks, telemetry, and automation to improve reliability, observability, and scalability of GPU clusters and platform SLAs.

Build and maintain backend computation engines for solar and electrical design. Develop simulation and optimization systems for PV and battery storage layouts, component selection, and electrical configuration. Translate physical models into reliable, scalable software, shape computation infrastructure, write tested code, mentor teammates, collaborate cross-functionally, and own services through production and on-call support.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Build and architect Alpaca’s high-performance algorithmic trading platform. Responsibilities include writing backend and frontend code, designing distributed and highly available systems, optimizing low-latency and high-throughput performance, and developing scalable databases, messaging systems, concurrency controls, and service-oriented architectures. The role also involves making critical platform decisions and potentially contributing to order and risk management, trading systems, observability, cloud infrastructure, and financial ledger capabilities.

Design, develop, and maintain high-quality cloud-based applications within an Agile team. Collaborate on architecture, product requirements, and software development; troubleshoot production issues; evaluate technologies; provide technical leadership; and optimize performance through memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency. The role also involves building multitenant database architectures, implementing secure APIs and event-driven systems, writing unit tests, and debugging complex software issues.

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

Lead development of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems from concept to flight-ready software. Design and simulate algorithms, translate requirements into embedded implementations, support HIL and flight test, analyze test data, coordinate across vehicle design, avionics, structures and testing, and document results while mitigating technical risk.

Design and implement production-quality system software, tools, and frameworks for enterprise storage systems. Develop and run realistic validation and analysis solutions, debug cross-layer issues (application, OS, driver, hardware), collaborate with firmware/hardware teams, drive technical design, mentor engineers, and evolve internal tooling with AI integrations.

Develop, modernize, operate, and maintain mission-critical software for CNMOC. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, debugging, ETL/ELT pipeline development, data integration, cloud and container operations, translating customer needs into user stories, sprint delivery, technical communication, and mentoring developers. The role also supports geospatial systems, databases, DevSecOps practices, Agile ceremonies, and customer issue escalation.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable Workday Finance software, APIs, backend services, distributed systems, and data models. Support financial transactions, accounting, billing, revenue, reporting, reconciliation, and auditability. Troubleshoot production issues, improve reliability and observability, contribute to CI/CD and testing, participate in architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product Management and Finance experts.

Build and maintain software integrations connecting Cribl’s stream-processing engine with systems such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and cloud storage platforms. Research third-party technologies, develop robust Node.js and TypeScript code, create automated and integration tests, collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in code reviews and on-call support, and contribute to documentation and technical communities.

Designs and verifies FPGA-based image, video, sensor-processing, and compression systems for space applications. Responsibilities include adapting MATLAB algorithms, performing fixed-point and word-length optimization, developing VHDL/Verilog RTL and SystemVerilog testbenches, validating hardware against golden models, debugging with FPGA tools, documenting designs, leading reviews, and mentoring engineers. The role focuses on AMD Xilinx FPGA platforms and high-throughput, low-latency processing architectures for DoD, intelligence, and civil space customers.

Lead the design, development, integration, verification, and testing of mission-critical communications software for spacecraft. Provide technical and team leadership, analyze requirements, oversee C/C++ and Python development, manage software risks, and establish validation procedures. Support embedded systems, RF communications, data protocols, software-defined radios, encryption, real-time operating systems, and avionics integration. Maintain technical documentation, coordinate sprint planning, and manage resources across multiple projects.

Develops high-fidelity fluid, thermal, and electrical models for EVA spacesuit performance analysis and verification. Responsibilities include building models in NASA Trick and GUNNS, debugging and validating simulations against test data, assessing uncertainty and credibility, conducting trade studies, verifying system requirements, and integrating models into larger simulation frameworks. The role applies systems engineering principles, documents verification activities, communicates technical progress, and supports agile project execution.