Top Remote C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Develop production hardware and software test solutions for RF mobile network products. Build and support test fixtures, test applications, equipment integrations, and design-for-test recommendations. Collaborate with R&D, software, supply chain, manufacturing, services, and external factories from new product introduction through volume production. Analyze tester performance, resolve design issues, and create documentation and test plans.

Maintain and improve build and release processes across mobile, console, and PC platforms. Develop automation tools, support continuous integration, manage branches and environments, coordinate releases with Production and Live-Ops teams, enable automated testing, and document build pipelines. The role requires Perforce, scripting, build systems, CI, C++, and strong collaboration skills.

Architect and develop foundational edge-computing runtime and integration platforms for connected-home devices. Build software models for device, spatial, and occupancy data; prototype and productionize new concepts; evaluate architectures; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, coding standards, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role spans edge computing, IoT, distributed systems, embedded environments, intelligent agents, networking, and secure systems within an exploratory R&D organization.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Own the technical success of strategic customer deployments from design through production. Collaborate with customer architects, operators, and developers to optimize infrastructure, debug distributed systems and storage issues, build automation and API solutions, and translate operational needs into product improvements. Serve as the customer advocate within engineering while managing high-stakes technical challenges and deployment expectations. Travel or work onsite at customer locations up to 25%.

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.

Leads and develops a software engineering team while contributing hands-on to enterprise application design, coding, testing, code reviews, production support, and technical decisions. Builds scalable solutions using C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and modern web technologies; partners with product and business stakeholders; supports Agile delivery, CI/CD, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and engineering best practices. The role also includes mentoring engineers, monitoring delivery and operational metrics, and driving continuous improvement.

Develop and integrate mission-critical software within the TAK ecosystem, including ATAK, WinTAK, MILTAK, and TAK Server. Build CoT data pipelines, low-latency APIs, sensor and intelligence data ingestion systems, CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and edge-deployed applications. Troubleshoot tactical networks and integration issues while translating defense mission requirements into scalable solutions. The role requires significant TAK ecosystem experience, multiple programming languages, security clearance, and up to 25% travel.

The Technical Lead will architect and implement systems for data processing and testing workflows in the autonomous vehicle development space, optimize software engineering practices, and guide a team of engineers.

Build simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Develop tools that model hypothetical scenarios, vary configurations and assumptions, compare outcomes, surface tradeoffs, and identify risks. Design scalable, reliable backend systems for complex, evolving network states while collaborating across product engineering to integrate capabilities into broader workflows. Responsibilities span system design, implementation, testing, debugging, and operational support.

Lead development and maintenance of character creation, rigging, animation, and simulation tools for game production. Collaborate with artists, engineers, studios, and research teams to prototype workflows, integrate game engines, optimize environments, and apply AI/ML to improve development efficiency. Build and customize internal tools, automate project environments, troubleshoot production issues, document systems, and support varied client pipelines. Participate in internal demonstrations and conferences, with required travel.

Develop and maintain scalable gameplay systems focused on enemy, boss, and ally behaviors for AAA games. Collaborate with content and engineering teams, architect flexible features, optimize performance, review code, mentor junior programmers, estimate work, and drive architecture development for enemy behavior systems.

Build and lead a centralized observability platform for satellite, ground-station, and distributed network systems. Responsibilities include scaling metrics, logging, and tracing infrastructure; defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; enabling application instrumentation; automating deployments with Terraform and ArgoCD; monitoring Kubernetes, GCP, and AWS environments; and developing incident response, alerting, and reliability practices. The role includes on-call responsibilities and requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include architecture, modern C++ development, MPI/OpenMP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed networking, database internals, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues across large-scale clustered systems.

Design and develop massively parallel distributed database kernels for real-time analytics at terabyte and petabyte scale. Responsibilities include low-level C++ development, MPP query execution, SIMD and hardware optimization, distributed communication using MPI and RDMA technologies, database internals, vector indexing, in-database machine learning, performance tuning, architecture reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.

Design and develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed database kernels for massively parallel analytics. Responsibilities include query execution, columnar storage, transaction management, cluster coordination, hardware-aware optimization, SIMD vectorization, RDMA networking, in-database machine learning, vector indexing, performance tuning, architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving scalability issues.

Design, develop, optimize, and debug ultra low-latency C++ streaming systems and media pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP). Analyze performance across CPU, memory, networking, and scheduling. Integrate streaming software with platform services across Windows, Linux, QNX, and embedded platforms. Define KPIs for networking and streaming quality and troubleshoot across software, OS, platform, and hardware boundaries.

Develop and implement embedded device and system software, analyze system efficiency and stability, optimize I/O performance, support software quality assurance, and code, test, and troubleshoot low-level software. The internship provides hands-on engineering experience, mentorship, and professional development. Candidates must be pursuing a relevant engineering or computer science degree and remain enrolled after the internship.

Develop and improve embedded graphics and compute drivers, customize products for embedded hardware and real-time operating systems, and profile and optimize drivers and applications. Write and review technical specifications while collaborating on reliable, high-quality safety-critical solutions. The role requires embedded software development, debugging, troubleshooting, and familiarity with graphics APIs, ARINC 653, and safety-critical development practices.

Leads systems engineering for regulated, embedded electro-mechanical medical devices. Responsibilities include requirements engineering, system architecture, risk management, integration, verification and validation, technical reviews, cross-functional design resolution, and regulatory documentation for FDA and EU submissions. The role provides technical leadership across mechanical, electrical, software, and quality teams while evaluating system alternatives, managing product documentation, and mitigating technical risks.

Develop and implement embedded software and systems, analyze system efficiency and stability, optimize I/O performance, and support software quality assurance. Responsibilities include coding, testing, troubleshooting, monitoring, and working closely with hardware. The internship offers hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, relocation benefits, and short-term housing for eligible interns.

Build and deploy AI solutions for clients, including agentic workflows, RAG systems, structured extraction, OCR and document-processing pipelines, retrieval systems, evaluation harnesses, and lightweight interfaces. Translate ambiguous client problems into production code, drive engagements from discovery through deployment, collaborate with stakeholders, and contribute to internal platform capabilities and engineering practices.

Build and validate reinforcement-learning tasks for AI agents exploring unfamiliar C repositories. Responsibilities include investigating runtime behavior, rewriting engineering questions, refining rubrics and foils, running validation workflows, documenting solutions, and addressing expert review. Work focuses on production systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and other foundational C codebases.

Leads hands-on full-stack development across architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and support. Designs secure, scalable C#/.NET and Angular applications, cloud integrations, APIs, and data solutions on AWS. Guides developers, establishes engineering standards, manages CI/CD and automated testing, troubleshoots complex issues, and drives cloud optimization, security, and technical debt reduction. Collaborates with product, architecture, DevOps, analytics, and project teams while supporting migration of on-premises applications to AWS.

Lead a development team while remaining hands-on in full-stack engineering. Design, build, test, deploy, and support secure web applications using C#/.NET, Angular, databases, and AWS. Drive cloud migrations, architecture, CI/CD automation, application security, troubleshooting, performance and cost optimization. Mentor developers, establish engineering standards, lead technical delivery, and collaborate with product, data, DevOps, and architecture teams.