Top Remote C++ Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

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.

As a Datacenter System Software Architect at SiFive, you'll design RISC-V Linux systems for datacenters, engage with customers, and optimize performance across software and hardware.

Lead design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of enterprise geospatial applications and APIs. Implement ArcGIS Enterprise solutions, web GIS apps, dashboards, integrations, and ensure compliance with federal IT, cybersecurity, and privacy requirements while guiding development teams and supporting testing, deployment, and O&M.

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.

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.

As a Gameplay Engineer, you'll design and refine networked gameplay systems, iterate on features, and collaborate with designers and back-end engineers.

As an Embedded Perception Engineer, you'll develop perception pipelines for autonomous systems, focusing on vision model development, sensor fusion, and optimization on embedded hardware.

The Backend Engineer will architect and optimize execution and matching infrastructure for low-latency trading systems, focusing on performance with a strong systems background.

The Senior Backend Engineer develops core product features in ETL and GraphQL, designs APIs, builds ETL pipelines, and collaborates with frontend teams.

Develop and maintain engine-level systems, game modding tools, and editor extensions. Implement and optimize rendering pipelines and shaders using DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL/Metal. Profile and optimize CPU/GPU/memory and multithreaded workloads, debug complex graphics issues, and collaborate with engineers, artists, and designers to deliver high-quality, maintainable C++ engine code.

Design and implement frontend components for the Solidity compiler, optimize performance, develop integration layers, and collaborate with researchers to enhance security features.

Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end systems and APIs/SDKs for an enterprise custody platform. Work full-stack across databases, cloud deployments, CI/CD, and security; troubleshoot issues, integrate emerging technologies, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop data integration, health information exchange, and IRIS application solutions for healthcare and other clients. Responsibilities include designing robust distributed applications, defining project specifications, selecting implementation strategies, collaborating directly with clients, and contributing to large-scale InterSystems IRIS and HealthShare implementations. Strong communication and software development skills are essential, with healthcare IT and healthcare data integration expertise highly valued.

The Staff Research Engineer - Code will lead the creation of datasets and reinforcement learning environments for coding agents, collaborating with AI labs to influence model improvements and operational excellence, while managing a technical team.

Develop and maintain checkers for competitive programming problems allowing multiple valid outputs, verify participant submissions, write clear C++ code, document logic, collaborate with customers, and provide feedback to improve test cases and checkers.