Top C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Designs and analyzes interplanetary spacecraft trajectories and maneuvers for NASA and commercial missions. Responsibilities include high- and low-thrust optimization, trade studies, Monte Carlo analysis, operational maneuver planning, navigation tool development, visualization, technical reporting, and stakeholder coordination. The engineer supports missions in development and flight operations while collaborating with spacecraft, science, and mission teams.

Define technical direction for hyperscale Azure Storage components; architect, develop, test, and support highly scalable, secure, compliant, and highly available cloud services. Lead multiple engineering projects, improve reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and observability, and apply AIOps for incident detection, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for Microsoft's virtualization platform, focusing on hypervisor and VMM capabilities. Design, implement, and optimize systems software across Windows, Linux, macOS, Azure, and containers. Improve performance, security, reliability, testing, and operational readiness; diagnose low-level hardware/software issues; enable virtualization on new silicon; mentor engineers; and influence platform strategy across teams and hardware partners.

Develop low-level embedded controls and communication interfaces for industrial vehicles. Responsibilities include analyzing CAN, J1939, and proprietary protocols; integrating Beckhoff PLCs and TwinCAT; implementing commands, state machines, diagnostics, and fault handling; building tests and simulators; debugging machine bring-up; and supporting customer-site commissioning. The role requires collaboration with electrical, robotics, and vehicle integration engineers.

Develop and integrate machine drivers, hardware abstractions, sensor and actuator interfaces, and vehicle-specific software for Hive’s autonomous robotics platform. Connect vehicle data, commands, diagnostics, and telemetry; configure and calibrate systems; debug hardware-software issues; and create automated, simulation, regression, and hardware-in-the-loop tests. Validate robotic systems on real machines, support field commissioning and customer acceptance, and help develop reusable integration patterns.

Develop and maintain GPU performance foundation libraries and test frameworks for Nsight tools. Implement GPU assembly tests, use emulators/simulators to validate instruction events, and document data workflows. Collaborate with hardware architecture teams to enable performance analysis and optimization of GPU-accelerated applications.

Design, implement, and maintain core systems for thatgamecompany’s custom game engine. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to gather requirements, deliver features, and iterate on solutions. Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot technical issues and inefficiencies across complex codebases to improve development effectiveness. Potential focus areas include CPU/GPU performance, cross-platform support, netcode, multithreading, audio, and rendering.

Build and operate multi-cloud infrastructure for MariaDB Cloud, designing application layers, APIs, cloud-native services, automation, and database-adjacent features. Own production capabilities end to end across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Python, and backend languages. Develop AI-enabled workflows involving vector databases, semantic search, RAG, and LLM agents while ensuring security, observability, scalability, and reliable deployment.

Build realistic backend coding challenges, feature implementations, bug fixes, and deterministic verifiers for AI training projects. Evaluate code correctness, reliability, maintainability, and performance while incorporating automated testing, validation criteria, edge-case analysis, and secure coding practices. Work independently on scalable backend systems and APIs, refine tasks based on requirements, and document technical solutions clearly.

Design and build JTX, a high-performance Solana trading application. Develop low-latency, reliable systems for order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management. Own critical infrastructure, implement security across transaction signing and user data, make architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams in a fast-moving 0-to-1 environment.

Join Azure PostgreSQL to design, implement, and test features in a relational database engine (query processing, logging, storage, IO, scale-out). Collaborate with stakeholders, write maintainable code, define test plans, operate live services (on-call), and contribute to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux.

Build edge-focused full-stack product experiences integrating machine learning and autonomy for frontline defense users. Collaborate with designers, infrastructure teams, product teams, and ML engineers to create intuitive applications, efficient edge-deployed application stacks, and internal modeling APIs. Develop maintainable software using strong engineering practices, including design documents, code reviews, and style guides.

Lead architecture, development, and delivery of Azure SmartNIC and networking software, including RDMA, virtualization, hardware offloads, and high-performance networking. Collaborate across hardware, firmware, silicon, and cloud teams; improve reliability and performance using telemetry; guide platform strategy; troubleshoot production systems; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and incident response.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Alpaca’s margin and risk systems across equities, options, crypto, and future asset classes. Design low-latency, high-throughput services for margin calculation, real-time risk enforcement, exposure limits, margin calls, and operational workflows. Drive reliability, correctness, transactional integrity, observability, incident prevention, technical reviews, mentorship, and cross-functional integration with product, brokerage operations, compliance, and engineering teams.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Deploy and integrate Shield AIs Hivemind autonomy software with customers worldwide. Provide on-site technical support, training, debugging, and documentation. Collaborate with sales and product engineering to support pre- and post-sales activities and improve autonomy products.

Design and build unified testing frameworks enabling portability across SIL, HIL, and simulation. Configure and maintain physical HIL benches and hardware interfaces, integrate automated HIL tests into CI pipelines, collaborate with software teams to improve HIL/CI systems, and monitor runtime performance, system health, and reliability metrics across testing platforms.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Design and scale ARM64 compute platform infrastructure, hypervisor integrations, instance management, resource orchestration tools, and compute APIs. Develop and maintain low-level services using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages. Collaborate with hardware and global engineering teams, participate in design reviews, debug distributed Linux systems, and mentor junior engineers.

Design and develop backend compute services, APIs, orchestration tools, and virtualization infrastructure for ARM64 and x86_64 cloud instances. Improve platform performance, scalability, reliability, and feature sets while integrating ARM server hardware. Troubleshoot complex low-level distributed Linux systems, collaborate across teams, and support the full software development lifecycle.

Lead UI engineering for a new game franchise by building production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Manage and mentor UI engineers, provide technical guidance across gameplay disciplines, and collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to deliver responsive player experiences. Responsibilities include HUDs, menus, fonts, localization workflows, and developer tools.

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.

Designs, develops, and maintains complex distributed software systems. Writes high-quality code, leads design and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable architectures, leads sprint delivery, collaborates with stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires expertise in programming, databases, APIs, messaging, microservices, containerization, DevSecOps, and technical strategy.

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