Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

The Embedded Software Engineer will analyze and develop embedded software systems, provide customer support, and apply software engineering and cybersecurity methods.

Own the technical direction of a core Helius backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, roadmap, and production operations. Design scalable distributed systems, storage, streaming, or edge infrastructure; drive profiling and performance improvements; establish operational excellence; partner with founders on strategy; mentor engineers; and lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives.

Own and advance a core Helius backend system supporting Solana infrastructure. Design and release high-performance products, optimize latency and throughput, make architectural decisions, improve observability and incident response, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end ownership of production systems at scale, with close collaboration with founders and engineering leadership. Relevant systems include data streaming, historical APIs, account indexing, and access control infrastructure.

Build and maintain C#/.NET backend services on Azure that ingest and process telemetry from distributed energy devices. Develop APIs, storage, dashboards, factory-floor applications, automated tests, and CI/CD pipelines. Troubleshoot systems end to end using logs, metrics, and traces, improve observability, document designs, and collaborate with software, hardware, data science, manufacturing, and field teams.

Build and maintain C#/.NET backend services on Azure that ingest and process telemetry from distributed energy devices. Develop APIs, storage, dashboards, and internal applications; troubleshoot systems using logs, metrics, and traces; write automated tests; support CI/CD and observability; and document designs for customer security reviews. Collaborate with software, hardware, data science, manufacturing, and field teams in a hybrid Houston environment.

Design and build performance-focused TV UI architectures for Netflix’s streaming applications across smart TVs, game consoles, and cable boxes. Enable scalable development for engineering teams by improving developer experience, ergonomics, resource management, performance, memory usage, and technology integration. Responsibilities include systems-level architectural thinking, API design, profiling, collaboration with UI, design, platform, and tooling teams, and making thoughtful implementation trade-offs.

Lead Elasticsearch performance engineering from architecture through production. Develop performance models, optimize distributed systems, profile bottlenecks, build benchmarks, detect regressions, and improve scalability across stateful and serverless architectures. Design AI-assisted optimization and benchmarking tools, collaborate across teams, define performance strategies, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep Java, JVM, concurrency, distributed systems, and search or data-store performance expertise.

Develop and optimize Elasticsearch performance across distributed and serverless architectures. Responsibilities include implementing performance models, profiling systems, identifying bottlenecks, building benchmarks and regression detection, improving logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL performance, and creating AI-assisted optimization tools. The role also involves architectural and code-level optimization, technical analysis, peer reviews, and guidance for fellow engineers.

Develop and improve NVIDIA’s proprietary GPU compiler backend in C++. Design register allocation passes and compiler optimizations for high-performance GPU machine instructions. Collaborate with compiler, hardware, and application teams on improvements and issue resolution. The role spans deep-learning compiler technology and requires strong compiler code-generation experience, preferably with LLVM, plus robust software engineering, testing, and documentation skills.

Provides technical leadership for designing, developing, optimizing, porting, and certifying GPGPU and AI inference libraries built on Vulkan SC drivers. The role targets embedded GPU platforms such as Arm Mali and Intel, maintains AI model testing infrastructure, defines validation standards, supports customer deployments, and troubleshoots drivers. It also involves documentation, competitive analysis, cross-functional architecture decisions, mentoring, onboarding, and exploring emerging AI compute capabilities.

Lead development of the production toolchain that compiles complex Python packages (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch). Build and maintain build/release pipelines, create and review conda recipes, automate processes, mentor engineers, run incident response and postmortems, and advise leadership on technical tradeoffs. Partner with distribution and wheels teams and validate AI-assisted code where used.

Design, build, and scale embedded connectivity and security for distributed energy devices. Implement networking (Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Thread/Zigbee/BLE), secure provisioning, OTA firmware pipelines, telemetry, and diagnostics. Support testing, certification, manufacturing validation, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype to deployment.

Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant distributed data infrastructure and platform tooling. Collaborate cross-functionally to architect high-impact systems, contribute to library and platform development, and improve deployment, control, and observability for large-scale data systems.

Lead technical direction for a cloud game: define architecture, hire and mentor engineering teams, oversee prototype-to-live ops execution, integrate Netflix cloud-gaming platform, manage external partners, perform deep engine-layer debugging and performance optimization, and continuously refine processes and pipelines.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, large-scale distributed data infrastructure (Spark, Presto/Trino, Druid, Iceberg). Improve performance, scalability, and reliability, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to open-source projects.

Leads mission formulation and architecture for international space opportunities. Develops mission concepts, performs mission-level analyses, owns top-level budgets, defines requirements, evaluates spacecraft and constellation configurations, and guides engineering teams through design trade studies. Collaborates with customers, scientists, and engineering disciplines to create practical, cost-effective satellite missions. Requires regular international travel and occasional travel to the Mountain View facility.

Lead the post-quantum cryptography roadmap, design secure cryptographic primitives, and implement cryptographic solutions to ensure resilience against quantum threats for blockchain networks.

The Forward Deployed Engineer collaborates with customer teams to design, prototype, and troubleshoot real-time communication and voice AI applications on the LiveKit platform.

Define high-level SoC subsystem and I/O architecture for LPU products, translate product requirements into architecture and IP specifications, build and validate functional/architectural models (C++, SystemC, Python), and drive tradeoffs across performance, power, reliability, and security while coordinating with IP, firmware, software, RTL, verification, and post-silicon teams.

Build and operate scalable Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, develop Terraform infrastructure-as-code, maintain internal developer platform and tooling, support automation, security, and performance, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and incident escalation.

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.

Implement and improve build automation, deployments, automated unit testing, test reporting, environment configuration, and package/compiler upgrades on Unix/Linux systems. Develop automation scripts in Perl (preferred), Bash, and Python; manage source control with Git and use build tools like Make.

Lead end-to-end development of secure, scalable web applications and data solutions supporting clinical trial operations. Design frontend and backend components using C#/.NET, Angular, AWS, and relational or non-relational databases. Guide architecture, testing, deployment, CI/CD, security, cloud optimization, and regulatory compliance. Mentor developers, oversee technical delivery, troubleshoot complex issues, and lead migration and modernization of on-premises applications to AWS.

Lead refactoring and optimization of scalable data pipelines, design next-generation distributed storage and processing systems, build clean interfaces for diverse data consumers, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards and processes.