Top Remote C++ Jobs in Washington, DC

Design and implement motion-planning software for autonomous vehicles, including behavior planning, trajectory generation, safety constraints, and real-time embedded performance. Integrate planning with perception, prediction, localization, and control systems. Validate solutions through simulation, closed-course trials, and on-road testing while addressing complex edge cases and collaborating with vendors, AI teams, and customers.

Build and own production software systems spanning embedded systems, real-time control, cloud services, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, reliability engineering, observability, incident response, technical design reviews, cross-functional hardware collaboration, hiring, and mentoring. The role requires strong systems fundamentals, distributed systems experience, debugging ability, and proficiency in at least one major programming language.

Own end-to-end firmware for safety-critical ARM Cortex-M systems, including drivers, state machines, communication protocols, hardware bring-up, qualification, testing, and programming flows. Build host-testable simulation layers and define firmware safety cases. Collaborate closely with hardware and mechanical engineers through environmental testing and board iterations. Rust, C, and C++ embedded experience are accepted, with emphasis on bare-metal systems, peripheral debugging, testability, and safety-relevant development.

Designs scalable, production-grade architectures for enterprise applications, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, and data flows. Defines architectural standards, evaluates technology trade-offs, and guides cloud engineering, modernization, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, security, and reliability practices. Provides technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, client collaboration, solution shaping, and technical planning while supporting scalable and maintainable software delivery.

Lead the architecture and development of a multi-RAT Open RAN digital twin supporting LTE and 5G NR simulation. Integrate production MAC and scheduler software with PHY, channel, UE, traffic, mobility, interference, and network models. Build fidelity tiers, AI/ML evaluation pipelines, reproducible experiments, calibration and validation practices, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows. Improve simulation scalability and reliability while collaborating across wireless, PHY, AI/ML, software, and lab-validation teams.

Develop, test, debug, and maintain game software for console, PC, and mobile platforms. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to define and implement features, deliver systems to specification, provide ongoing technical support, and balance scope, quality, and development pace.

Develops electrical, optical, and thermal test plans, algorithms, hardware, software, and automated production test solutions for photonic integrated circuits. Responsibilities include device characterization, instrument control, motion and vision systems, test station qualification, Gage R&R, SPC, documentation, data analysis, troubleshooting, and cross-functional project coordination.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Build scalable full-stack applications integrating healthcare insights with browser-based and Windows EHR systems. Develop products using FHIR and HL7 interoperability standards, collaborate on technical roadmaps, and implement performant solutions. Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, make technical decisions, and partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders using Agile processes.

Own and evolve Argo Workflows and Argo Events, make major architectural decisions, and build Pipekit’s enterprise control-plane product. The role includes shaping the roadmap, shipping customer-focused features, engaging with open-source contributors and customers, participating in an on-call rotation, and speaking at cloud-native conferences. Candidates should have strong statically typed programming skills, Kubernetes expertise, production-systems experience, excellent written communication, and a self-directed, customer-focused approach.

Build scalable simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Model hypothetical scenarios, allow users to vary configurations and assumptions, evaluate impacts, compare tradeoffs, identify risks, and integrate simulation capabilities into broader product workflows. The role involves full-stack engineering across design, development, testing, and operations, with emphasis on distributed systems, algorithms, network modeling, and computational reliability.

Design and develop backend distributed systems for 5G non-terrestrial networks, Direct-to-Cell services, satellite orchestration, and terrestrial network coordination. Build scalable cloud-native software using C++, Golang, Java, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Kubernetes. Translate 3GPP and O-RAN specifications into reliable software, integrate platform components, document implementations, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with telecom solution architects.

Design and evolve core data models and durable APIs for complex communications networks. Build, test, operate, and maintain production-grade interfaces and abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks while ensuring compatibility, consistency, quality, and performance. Manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables within the Spacetime engineering team.

Design, evolve, and operate core data models and APIs for complex communications networks. Build durable abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks, while maintaining interface quality, compatibility, consistency, and performance. Collaborate with experienced engineers to manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables across production systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Java.

Lead development of high-performance Rust parsers, compilers, automata, indexes, and data structures for structured language-model generation. Optimize decoding-loop performance through profiling and benchmarking, integrate Python bindings and C++/CUDA components into inference engines, collaborate across teams, and maintain production-quality code through testing and CI/CD.

Develop high-performance parsers, compilers, and data structures that constrain LLM decoding according to schemas, grammars, policies, and function definitions. Research parser, compiler, and symbolic methods; write reliable, efficient code; and optimize implementations through rigorous testing and automation. The role requires professional Python expertise, lower-level programming experience, strong formal language knowledge, and clear written communication. It is fully remote with at least three hours of daily overlap with Eastern Time business hours.

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%.

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.