Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop, integrate, test, and maintain mission design simulations and software tools (C++, Fortran, Python). Support full software lifecycle, CI/CD, source control, coding standards, documentation, and NASA Class C compliance; collaborate with NASA civil servants and contractors.

Develop, integrate, test, and maintain mission design and simulation software for NASA and commercial spaceflight programs. Implement software enhancements, maintain Class C software per standards, write documentation, support CI/CD and lifecycle activities, enforce coding standards, and collaborate with NASA teams to improve software design and processes.

Develop and optimize ultra-low-latency algorithmic trading and execution engines for cryptocurrency markets. Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to implement and maintain high-performance HFT systems, troubleshoot production issues, and continually improve system latency and reliability.

Design, build, and operate Restate Cloud and BYOC deployments across multi-tenant SaaS and on-prem environments. Implement IaC and cloud orchestration for Kubernetes-based stateful workloads, ensure reliability and observability (SLOs, metrics, traces, logs, runbooks), automate fleet scaling, and participate in on-call rotations supporting production operations.

Develop and maintain web and desktop applications using .NET technologies. Requires strong programming skills, experience with databases, and project management.

Design high-performance C++ libraries for automated PCB design challenges, mentoring peers and shaping technical direction while collaborating with experts in various fields.

Design and implement a video processing engine, develop a cross-platform rendering engine, integrate systems, and optimize performance while collaborating with other engineers.

The Backend Engineer will design, build, and scale Veda's backend systems, ensuring reliability and performance for DeFi applications.

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.

Develop and deploy options pricing and execution models for digital asset derivatives. Research volatility dynamics and microstructure, build backtests handling path dependency and costs, design hedging and delta management, collaborate with engineers to move strategies into live infrastructure, and monitor real-time Greeks and P&L to iterate on models.

Design and implement gameplay and technical systems, rapidly prototype features (camera, animation, controls, AI), improve level-editor and tooling, collaborate across design and engineering, support multiplayer and live-game operations, and enable the design team with polished interactions and pipelines.

Design and implement an LLVM-based JIT backend for NVIDIA GPUs, develop compiler passes and optimizations to meet performance and compile-time targets, collaborate with hardware and application teams to resolve issues, apply modern compiler technologies, and influence future GPU architectures.

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

Design and develop immersive experiences using Unreal Engine, provide leadership to team members, optimize code, and ensure performance.

As a Software Engineer at Espresso, you will design and implement core blockchain infrastructure in Rust, focusing on transaction processing and consensus.

Lead the Options Engineering team, enhance trading infrastructure, and evolve systematic options trading with a focus on automated systems and risk management.

The Engineering Lead for Options will oversee a team, improve trading systems, and support the platform's evolution, focusing on options trading.

Contribute expert-level code samples, implement and optimize features, debug complex defects, refactor legacy code, document technical decisions for AI training, and review peer submissions across Python3, Java, Rust, Go, C++, and TypeScript codebases in a part-time remote contract role.

Lead design and implementation of scalable cloud services: define architecture, write and review maintainable code, build automated tests, and ensure reliability. Collaborate with stakeholders, drive deployments, monitor live services (on-call/DRI), and iterate using telemetry. Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence, security, and compliance.

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.

Define next-generation graphics and compute capabilities for Direct3D and HLSL. Collaborate with GPU vendors and industry groups, influence standards, design and ship new features, and analyze and optimize workloads across modern GPU architectures.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers, write clean maintainable code, participate in code reviews, build automated tests, debug and resolve defects, and follow Agile/DevOps practices.

Design and scale high-performance Ethernet and InfiniBand fabrics for hyperscale AI training clusters. Develop ROCE transport and congestion-control mechanisms, topology and routing strategies, telemetry and observability, cluster bring-up, benchmarking, tuning, and cross-vendor co-design to enable low-latency, lossless networks at 10k–100k+ GPU scale.

Contract Gameplay Systems Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and stabilizing data-driven gameplay AI systems in Unreal Engine. Collaborate with designers, animators, and QA to build enemy behaviors, navigation, perception, and decision logic; profile and optimize performance; document systems; write clean C++/Blueprint code; participate in reviews and sprints to move systems from MVP to production quality.

Design and implement embedded firmware and low-level software for server BMCs and GPU/HPC platforms. Enhance OpenBMC, enable real-time telemetry of power/thermal sensors, debug low-level drivers and interfaces, validate hardware-firmware integration, and contribute to long-term firmware architecture for cluster reliability.