Top Senior C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead and grow an engineering team building core VM and container platform capabilities for Azure. Drive technical strategy, execution, incident resolution, cross-team coordination, and scalable, secure platform innovations.

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.

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.

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.

Provide advanced database administration for enterprise Oracle environments: monitor and tune performance, ensure security and backups, manage capacity and disk utilization, design complex schemas, modify stored procedures, coordinate with developers, troubleshoot SQL issues, and produce database reports and logs.

The role involves designing and developing flight software for NASA's Lunar Gateway, including systems engineering, software integration, and adherence to software processes.

Design and implement system-level debugging, validation, and observability platforms. Build automated anomaly collection/analysis, visualization and root-cause tools, failure classification and monitoring frameworks. Extend compilers, runtimes and programming interfaces for profiling and instrumentation, improve bring-up and low-level debug workflows, lead cross-functional initiatives, support incident response, and establish debuggability and reliability best practices.

Develop, optimize, and validate high-performance ML and linear-algebra kernels for Cerebras wafer-scale hardware. Implement low-level assembly and a C-like DSL (CSL), model and analyze performance, build testing methodologies, and collaborate with chip and system architects to maximize compute utilization for state-of-the-art AI and HPC workloads.

Design, develop, test, and maintain custom PTC Creo Toolkit (C/C++) applications and Windchill integrations. Create automated CAD workflows, custom UIs, and tools to manage CAD data, metadata, configurations, and lifecycle processes. Support MBD/digital engineering initiatives, troubleshoot complex Creo/Windchill issues, participate in architecture and code reviews, and produce technical documentation and deployment procedures.

Lead perception technical efforts for UAS programs: design target detection/tracking and nonlinear state estimators, architect multi-sensor world modeling, integrate ROS2/DDS interfaces, optimize real-time C++ embedded deployments, and mentor engineers while contributing reusable platform components.

Design, implement, and operate low-latency, high-throughput C++, Go, and Python services for real-time sensor ingestion, tracking, inference, and data pipelines. Build IPC/messaging interfaces, optimize data structures and Protobuf serialization, deploy containerized services on Kubernetes (Argo/Helm) in GCP, and implement observability, testing with historic/simulated data, and end-to-end O&M.

Embed with U.S. government and military customers to deploy, integrate, debug, and maintain C2 software in austere operational environments. Build integrations, troubleshoot distributed systems, contribute to core services, support on-call and nonstandard hours, and travel extensively to ensure mission reliability and deliver field-driven product improvements.

As a Database Reliability Engineer at ClickHouse, you'll improve reliability, manage escalation processes, support incident response, and enhance database performance while collaborating across teams.

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.

Design and implement core components of networking systems at Ditto, focusing on transport protocols, performance, and modular architecture.

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

Lead design and implement deep mobile platform integrations (primarily iOS) across the Graykey product. Debug across layers (Python, native C/C++, OS userspace and kernel), analyze crash dumps and disassembled binaries, drive features from design through production, mentor engineers, and collaborate with firmware and product teams to ensure reliable multi‑device, multi‑OS operation.

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.

Own and harden on-board networking and Linux platform for autonomous vehicles: design fault-tolerant internal networks, implement PTP/gPTP time synchronization, tune Linux networking (NIC buffers, offloads, NAPI), build connectivity daemons (Go/Python) for multi-carrier cellular bonding, integrate networking with embedded Linux on x86_64 and ARM64, and build observability for fleet connectivity.

Develop and execute test plans for SiGe ASICs and high-speed mixed-signal devices. Perform RF/mm-wave probing and characterization, troubleshoot electrical/RF/thermal/software issues, compare measurements with simulations, build bench hardware/software for characterization, qualify test stations (Gage R&R, SPC), document test solutions, and coordinate cross-functional test development schedules.

As a Senior 3D Software Engineer, you will develop advanced 3D algorithms while collaborating with cross-functional teams in an agile environment.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement components for Impala's query engine, lead projects for distributed systems, and improve performance through analysis and troubleshooting.

Responsible for designing and developing firmware and flight software for spacecraft systems, collaborating with engineering teams on robust, reliable software under strict constraints.

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.

The engineer will provide technical customer support for Datacenter and Server products, assist in design wins, manage deliverables, debug firmware, and handle customer documentation and training.