Top Remote C++ Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and optimize carrier networking solutions, support RFP/RFQ responses, and provide technical guidance for network planning and deployment. The role develops specifications, evaluates products and vendors, creates sales engineering tools, analyzes network economics and roadmap impacts, and collaborates with marketing, product, sales, optical, and software engineering teams. Expertise in carrier-class optical and IP networking, scripting, planning tools, and DWDM systems is required.

Build and maintain production-quality gameplay systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical guidance on simulation and networking, and collaborate with designers, artists, content creators, and engine teams to develop game-building systems and tools for an unannounced PlayStation project from pre-production through release.

Develop and implement embedded software and systems, analyze system efficiency and stability, optimize I/O performance, support software quality assurance, and code, test, and troubleshoot system software. The internship requires hardware understanding and offers hands-on technical experience, mentorship, relocation benefits, and short-term housing for eligible interns.

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, and monitoring embedded system software while working closely with hardware. The internship provides hands-on engineering experience, mentorship, professional development, relocation benefits, and short-term housing eligibility.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Support flight software certification for the Nyx orbital vehicle through V&V and IV&V, requirements management and tracing, test planning, documentation for certification and NASA safety reviews, standards interpretation, interfacing with system engineering and product assurance, and contributing to software design and integrated mission testing using C++ and Python.

Leads optical navigation engineering across lunar and interplanetary missions. Responsibilities include designing and testing optical navigation and camera systems, operational analysis, camera calibration, image processing, planetary terrain modeling, software architecture, flight software development, verification, risk mitigation, and mission support. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams, manages multiple projects, mentors engineers, oversees schedules and budgets, and communicates technical results to stakeholders and executives.

Develops and validates ground-based and onboard optical navigation systems for lunar and interplanetary missions. Responsibilities include camera calibration, image processing, observation planning, terrain and shape modeling, simulation, flight software development, system verification, technical analysis, and mission partner coordination. The engineer also documents results, troubleshoots technical issues, manages configuration-controlled software, supports project planning, and provides operational support for deep-space missions.

Performs orbit determination, trajectory reconstruction, covariance analysis, tracking-data assessment, and navigation-product development for spacecraft missions. Configures estimation runs, evaluates residuals and solution behavior, maintains analysis scripts and workflows, troubleshoots issues, and prepares technical reports. Level III engineers lead complex analyses, improve methods and software reliability, guide engineers, coordinate mission teams and customers, and manage project priorities, schedules, and budgets.

Supports orbit determination solutions, trajectory reconstruction, covariance analysis, tracking-data assessment, navigation products, and spacecraft maneuver planning. The role includes configuring estimation runs, reviewing residuals, checking coordinate and time-system accuracy, maintaining Python scripts and workflows, troubleshooting analyses, documenting results, and communicating findings to mission teams. Level II engineers independently execute routine analyses and support deep-space navigation operations. A bachelor’s degree, U.S. citizenship, Python knowledge, and foundational astrodynamics or estimation expertise are required.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Leads a team of 5–10 engineers building real-time market data and analytics infrastructure for trading systems. Owns technical strategy and roadmap, drives delivery, ensures data accuracy, reliability, low latency, and scalability, and partners with Product and engineering teams. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, developing senior engineers, maintaining engineering standards, and delivering index pricing, market data ingestion and distribution, and funding rate computation systems.

Define multi-generation hardware/software architectures for AI inference silicon, including boot, memory, DMA, scheduling, security, telemetry, and host/device interfaces. Integrate firmware, Linux, runtimes, simulation, and developer tooling; lead architecture reviews; resolve cross-team technical issues; prototype high-risk interfaces; and mentor senior engineers. The role requires deep systems expertise, strong C or C++ skills, and architecture-level ownership across pre-silicon, silicon bring-up, and production software.

Own web compatibility triage and incident response across DuckDuckGo browsers on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. Debug complex web applications and third-party code, distinguish site, browser, and privacy-related issues, reverse-engineer obfuscated code, build durable cross-platform fixes, and develop automation and LLM agent tooling to reproduce and triage breakage. Lead ambiguous projects independently and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic customers to design and operate large-scale data infrastructure, troubleshoot distributed systems and networking issues, develop automation and APIs, and translate deployment challenges into product improvements. The role requires deep expertise in storage, Linux internals, high-performance networking, Python and C/C++, plus customer-facing communication and up to 25% travel.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Own the assessment, hardening, testing, modernization, and sustainment of a government SDN software baseline. Develop secure C++ and Python solutions, remediate vulnerabilities, improve testing, debug application and network issues, and support containerization, CI/CD, deployment, and security scanning. Collaborate with platform engineers and government stakeholders, document technical decisions, validate releases, and mentor engineers in Navy environments.

A 10-week remote summer internship program offering team placements across software engineering, data science, support, and services. Interns complete daily responsibilities and a capstone project, collaborate with experienced professionals, attend workshops and networking events, and contribute to meaningful business priorities. Candidates must be enrolled undergraduates with strong analytical and technical skills, familiarity with programming or databases, knowledge of AI tools, and effective communication and teamwork abilities.

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

The role involves optimizing hardware support within a software stack for AI model deployment, collaborating with teams and hardware vendors to enhance performance and portability across platforms.

Design and implement Mojo language features, compiler optimizations, and multi-target compilation for CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators using MLIR and LLVM. Collaborate with kernel authors, hardware engineers, researchers, and the open-source community to improve language design, code generation, performance, developer experience, and the broader Mojo SDK.

Develop, optimize, and integrate 5G NR L2/L3 protocol stacks (MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, NGAP). Implement scheduling, HARQ, buffer management, and mobility features. Debug protocols using tracing tools and integrate L2/L3 with PHY and 5GC to improve throughput, latency, and handover performance.

Design, implement, and optimize 5G NR gNB PHY layer algorithms and real-time signal processing on DSP/FPGA/GPU. Integrate PHY with RF front-end, maintain 3GPP compliance, perform unit/integration testing, debug and tune performance, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and maintain low-latency connectivity APIs and integrations with crypto exchanges, OTC desks, brokers, and other trading venues. Develop order routing, trade execution, and real-time data ingestion systems using REST, WebSocket, and FIX. Monitor connections and data pipelines, improve reliability and observability with Grafana and Prometheus, collaborate on exchange onboarding, and create automated tests for production readiness.