Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop and lead implementation of mathematical optimization models for supply chain applications. Investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, translate real-world problems into software, and design comprehensive testing strategies. Build robust C++ software, automated functional, regression, and performance tests, and collaborate with agile teams. Apply AI and other tools to accelerate development while maintaining architectural consistency, security, and code quality. Review AI-generated code for correctness, integration risks, and edge cases.

Develop and maintain automated testing tools and frameworks for complex healthcare software. Create test plans, execute white-box, black-box, UI, API, and performance testing, identify defects and testing gaps, improve CI/CD processes, and collaborate with product managers and developers to support high-quality releases. The role also involves debugging code, participating in demos, and working with distributed teams in a remote environment.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads design and code reviews, translates requirements into scalable solutions, guides agile sprint teams, resolves delivery impediments, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role emphasizes high-quality backend development, cloud technologies, APIs, microservices, containerization, security, scalability, and technical strategy.

Design, develop, and maintain complex distributed software systems. Write tested, scalable code; translate requirements into robust designs; lead design and code reviews; guide sprint teams; collaborate with stakeholders; and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes software quality, security, compliance, maintainability, technical strategy, and delivery of new features across applications.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, leads sprint teams, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role emphasizes backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, databases, containerization, DevSecOps, technical strategy, and delivering secure, maintainable, high-quality software.

Designs, develops, tests, reviews, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Leads sprint teams, translates product requirements into scalable and secure designs, drives code and design reviews, collaborates with stakeholders, removes delivery impediments, and mentors engineers. The role requires strong software development, architecture, API, database, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical leadership experience, with preferred expertise in Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted development tools.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Leads architecture and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with product managers and stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, observability, and technical strategy experience.

Provides technical leadership for multiple agile engineering teams delivering Guidewire PolicyCenter and distributed software systems. Responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, and reviewing complex applications; translating requirements into scalable architectures; leading sprint teams; resolving delivery impediments; collaborating with product managers and stakeholders; and mentoring engineers. The role also drives technical strategy, operational excellence, system quality, security, performance, maintainability, and roadmap execution.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing and developing complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include coding, system design, code and design reviews, roadmap delivery, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy, quality, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires extensive software engineering experience, multi-team leadership, distributed systems expertise, and proficiency with modern programming languages, cloud platforms, microservices, containers, APIs, messaging, and DevSecOps.

Build simulation and modeling infrastructure for AI inference accelerators before silicon availability. Develop analytical performance models, functional and timing simulators, virtual platforms, and software integrations. Validate functionality and performance against reference implementations and hardware, improve simulator speed and usability, and create automated regression coverage. Collaborate with hardware, compiler, firmware, runtime, performance, and test engineers to support architecture exploration and realistic software workloads.

Lead a backend engineering team owning the creative pipeline for high-throughput, low-latency adtech services. Drive roadmap execution, run agile rituals, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, handle incidents and on-call, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and support hiring and onboarding.

Architects, develops, and maintains high-performance C++ applications with advanced memory management and multithreaded architectures. Owns critical system components, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning. Leads code reviews, technical planning, and system design while mentoring engineers. Works in Linux environments with Python, shell scripting, SQL, and Git, and collaborates across teams to improve reliability, scalability, and technical growth.

Software engineering intern responsible for owning a scoped project and building production-quality features across frontend, backend, full-stack, real-time, or forward-deployed systems. Duties include developing telemetry and geospatial interfaces, backend services, APIs, event-driven systems, tests, developer tooling, and data pipelines. The intern will support integration and test events, debug distributed systems and networks, explain technical tradeoffs, and present their work at the end of the internship.

Design, build, test, document, and optimize Tailscale’s client-side networking software. Develop connectivity features involving routing, VPNs, subnet routers, exit nodes, and NAT traversal; apply secure, scalable architectures; diagnose complex customer network issues; support escalations; collaborate across product and engineering teams; and contribute to open-source networking projects.

Develop scalable, secure, performant web applications and data pipelines for healthcare technology. Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical roadmaps, use Agile practices, improve observability and reliability, and mentor junior engineers through coaching and code reviews. Responsibilities include database querying, technical decision-making, API development, data ingestion, cloud technologies, containerization, CI/CD, and handling sensitive data.

Design, develop, test, and optimize safe, scalable real-time software for production autonomous vehicle systems. Architect continuous learning infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with embedded, platform, AI, sensor, and compute teams. Support perception, prediction, and planning integration while contributing to highway and urban autonomous driving capabilities.

Design and implement motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles, including behavior planning, trajectory generation, safety constraints, and real-time embedded performance. Integrate planning with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Validate solutions through simulation, closed-course trials, and on-road testing while addressing complex edge cases and collaborating with vendors, AI teams, and customers.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Own end-to-end firmware for safety-critical ARM Cortex-M systems, including drivers, state machines, communication protocols, hardware bring-up, qualification, testing, and programming flows. Build host-testable simulation layers and define firmware safety cases. Collaborate closely with hardware and mechanical engineers through environmental testing and board iterations. Rust, C, and C++ embedded experience are accepted, with emphasis on bare-metal systems, peripheral debugging, testability, and safety-relevant development.

Designs scalable, production-grade architectures for enterprise applications, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, and data flows. Defines architectural standards, evaluates technology trade-offs, and guides cloud engineering, modernization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, security, and reliability practices. Provides technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, client collaboration, solution shaping, and technical planning while supporting scalable and maintainable software delivery.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports embedded electronic instrumentation for the natural gas utility industry. Responsibilities include circuit and PCB design, embedded firmware, simulations, prototype evaluation, verification and validation, manufacturing transfer, troubleshooting, compliance, and sustaining engineering. Collaborates with firmware, software, mechanical, manufacturing, suppliers, and product management teams. Provides technical leadership, mentors junior personnel, and supports products throughout the development lifecycle. The role is hands-on and office-based in Houston, with occasional outdoor customer work and up to 20% U.S. travel.

Lead the architecture and development of a multi-RAT Open RAN digital twin supporting LTE and 5G NR simulation. Integrate production MAC and scheduler software with PHY, channel, UE, traffic, mobility, interference, and network models. Build fidelity tiers, AI/ML evaluation pipelines, reproducible experiments, calibration and validation practices, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows. Improve simulation scalability and reliability while collaborating across wireless, PHY, AI/ML, software, and lab-validation teams.

Designs and implements scalable software architecture and web-based systems using Java EE and related technologies. Responsibilities include developing front-end and backend functionality, evaluating tools and designs, troubleshooting, conducting root-cause analysis, collaborating with QA and project teams, participating in code reviews, documenting solutions, mentoring engineers, and serving as a technical lead across multiple projects.

Develop, test, debug, and maintain game software for console, PC, and mobile platforms. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to define and implement features, deliver systems to specification, provide ongoing technical support, and balance scope, quality, and development pace.

Develops electrical, optical, and thermal test plans, algorithms, hardware, software, and automated production test solutions for photonic integrated circuits. Responsibilities include device characterization, instrument control, motion and vision systems, test station qualification, Gage R&R, SPC, documentation, data analysis, troubleshooting, and cross-functional project coordination.