Top Remote C++ Jobs in San Diego, CA

Develop and verify firmware for battery safety, fuel gauging, charging, thermal management, power management, USB-C, and embedded Linux systems. Build automated battery test fixtures, analyze fleet-wide metrics, diagnose returned products, profile battery runtime, and collaborate with electrical engineers and vendors. Create test plans, design documentation, and failure analyses while reviewing AI-assisted code and mentoring teammates.

Develops wafer-level photonic integrated circuit burn-in and test solutions for R&D and high-throughput production. Responsibilities include designing validation test plans and algorithms, developing hardware and software with vendors, qualifying test stations, applying Gage R&R and SPC, troubleshooting complex systems, automating instrumentation and data acquisition, analyzing results, and documenting solutions for cross-functional teams.

Leads design verification and performance validation testing for high-speed coherent and direct-detect optical components and subsystems. Develops test plans, algorithms, hardware, and software for optoelectronic characterization and instrument automation. Collaborates with PIC, ASIC, module design, and systems engineering teams to release new products. Troubleshoots complex test environments and produces detailed technical documentation.

Designs and automates electrical and optical performance validation tests for photonic integrated circuits and subassemblies. Develops test hardware, software, motion and vision control systems, and production-level test stations. Performs station qualification, Gage R&R, SPC, documentation, troubleshooting, data analysis, and cross-functional communication while tracking test development schedules and milestones.

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable backend platform services and shared libraries. Contribute to architecture, reliability, developer experience, continuous delivery, monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Investigate production issues, implement lasting fixes, participate in technical reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver business value. The role also encourages thoughtful use of AI tools to improve productivity.

Lead the engineering organization for BlueCat’s Network Observability product line. Own technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, delivery, and operational excellence for data-intensive network monitoring platforms spanning SaaS and on-premise deployments. Build AI-driven observability capabilities, modernize legacy systems, establish engineering standards, and develop distributed teams. Partner with product, executive leadership, customers, sales, and support to achieve business goals and resolve strategic technical issues.

Design and maintain foundational gameplay systems, frameworks, workflows, and tools using C++ and Unreal Engine 5. Provide technical direction for shared gameplay architecture, profile and optimize CPU, memory, networking, and systemic performance, and establish performance metrics, budgets, workflows, and tools. Collaborate across engineering and content teams to support scalable multiplayer game simulation and networking.

Design, build, and maintain pipeline and artist-facing tools across web, desktop, and Unreal surfaces. Develop Python integrations with Maya, Unreal, Nuke, Perforce, and AYON; build AI-assisted features; and own tools through production. Collaborate directly with artists and supervisors, manage work autonomously, and deliver responsive, maintainable, well-tested software.

Develop and optimize low-level embedded software and firmware for wireless communication systems. Integrate WiFi and 5G/LTE modules, support board bring-up, and validate hardware-software interactions. Optimize CPU, DSP, FPGA, and power performance; implement secure boot and OTA firmware updates; debug complex subsystem interactions; and collaborate with hardware and cross-functional teams. Maintain technical documentation and participate in code reviews.

Build and operate backend APIs, a reusable integration platform, security-tool connectors, MCP capabilities, and event-driven services. Own GraphQL federation, permissions, multi-tenant access, reliability, observability, vendor API resilience, and production operations. Collaborate across engineering, product, and security teams while mentoring other engineers and contributing to technical standards.

Build and operate backend services for licensing, entitlements, provisioning, access control, multi-tenant administration, MSP/MSSP workflows, audit logging, and notifications. Design reliable cloud-native systems using Docker, Kubernetes, and relational databases, while contributing to observability, incident response, documentation, testing, and platform security. Collaborate across engineering, product, and design teams and mentor less experienced engineers.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Lead and grow a software engineering team responsible for CUDA Math Libraries platform expansion and readiness. Own integration, qualification, compliance, validation, performance testing, defect triage, and technical roadmaps across specialized platforms. Collaborate with library, DevOps, QA, compiler, CUDA, release, and platform teams. The role requires hands-on high-performance numerical software development using C++ and Python, parallel computing, performance optimization, and software engineering leadership.

Lead systems engineering for Hivemind-based autonomy products: define and manage requirements, develop system architectures and trade studies, coordinate hardware/software interfaces, support integration/verification/validation and testing, and identify and mitigate technical risks across the system lifecycle.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Build and scale full-stack applications using Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Design APIs, data architectures, synchronization systems, infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for secure, reliable operation in disconnected and low-bandwidth environments. Collaborate across engineering, business development, and mission teams while supporting critical defense and public safety operations.

Develops automated hardware and software test solutions for photonic integrated circuits and subassemblies. Responsibilities include designing validation plans, characterizing semiconductor optoelectronic devices, controlling instruments and data acquisition, qualifying production test stations, applying Gage R&R and SPC, documenting solutions, and tracking project milestones. The role requires collaboration across engineering teams and troubleshooting of complex test systems.

Leads architecture and development of Trellix’s high-throughput cloud threat detection platform. Designs microservices, asynchronous submission pipelines, sandbox execution systems, full-stack analyst interfaces, secure AWS infrastructure, identity integrations, telemetry pipelines, and compliant multi-region architectures. Owns infrastructure as code, observability, production reliability, security practices, technical documentation, incident response, and SLA commitments while integrating AI-assisted development tools.

Leads architecture and development of Thunderbird’s web-based Services products, including calendar and secure file storage offerings. Responsibilities include writing code, prototyping, selecting technologies, developing analytics and infrastructure, solving complex problems, guiding product direction, mentoring engineers, and improving scalability and sustainability. The role collaborates across engineering, product, design, QA, Mozilla, and open-source communities in a fully remote environment.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Thunderbird’s web-based Services products, including calendar and secure file storage offerings. Responsibilities include writing code, prototyping, making technology decisions, developing analytics and infrastructure, solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, collaborating across product and design teams, and improving system scalability and maintainability. The role also contributes to product growth, open-source collaboration, and data-informed decisions within a fully remote international team.

Develop and implement embedded software and systems for aerospace devices. Responsibilities include coding, testing, troubleshooting, software quality assurance, system efficiency and stability analysis, and I/O performance optimization. Interns work with hardware and embedded technologies while receiving mentorship and professional development. The role is available at multiple U.S. locations and includes relocation benefits and short-term housing for eligible interns.

Develop and implement embedded software and devices for aerospace systems. Responsibilities include analyzing system efficiency and stability, optimizing I/O performance, supporting software quality assurance, and coding, testing, and troubleshooting system software. The intern will work with embedded hardware and software technologies while receiving hands-on experience, mentorship, relocation benefits, and short-term housing when eligible.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

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.