Top Remote C++ Jobs in Washington, DC

Defines enterprise application architectures, standards, frameworks, and reference implementations for scalable, secure solutions. Evaluates technologies, designs integrations, documents solutions, facilitates discovery and technical workshops, and partners with product, design, and engineering teams. Mentors technical leads and senior engineers while driving architectural best practices and emerging technology adoption. Requires expertise across Java, frontend frameworks, AWS, infrastructure as code, enterprise integration, Salesforce, and distributed application design.

Provides technical leadership for designing, developing, optimizing, porting, and certifying GPGPU and AI inference libraries built on Vulkan SC drivers. The role targets embedded GPU platforms such as Arm Mali and Intel, maintains AI model testing infrastructure, defines validation standards, supports customer deployments, and troubleshoots drivers. It also involves documentation, competitive analysis, cross-functional architecture decisions, mentoring, onboarding, and exploring emerging AI compute capabilities.

Lead the architecture, development, and operation of Airbnb’s global Payments Compliance systems. Set technical direction for compliance experiences, regulatory screening, information collection, and continuous auditing. Collaborate with Product, Design, Policy, Operations, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, configurable, auditable, highly available solutions. Mentor engineers, lead project teams, improve engineering processes, and ensure compliance systems adapt to evolving global regulations.

Lead development of the production toolchain that compiles complex Python packages (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch). Build and maintain build/release pipelines, create and review conda recipes, automate processes, mentor engineers, run incident response and postmortems, and advise leadership on technical tradeoffs. Partner with distribution and wheels teams and validate AI-assisted code where used.

Design, build, and scale embedded connectivity and security for distributed energy devices. Implement networking (Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Thread/Zigbee/BLE), secure provisioning, OTA firmware pipelines, telemetry, and diagnostics. Support testing, certification, manufacturing validation, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype to deployment.

Design, build, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant distributed data infrastructure and platform tooling. Collaborate cross-functionally to architect high-impact systems, contribute to library and platform development, and improve deployment, control, and observability for large-scale data systems.

Lead technical direction for a cloud game: define architecture, hire and mentor engineering teams, oversee prototype-to-live ops execution, integrate Netflix cloud-gaming platform, manage external partners, perform deep engine-layer debugging and performance optimization, and continuously refine processes and pipelines.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, large-scale distributed data infrastructure (Spark, Presto/Trino, Druid, Iceberg). Improve performance, scalability, and reliability, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to open-source projects.

Design and deliver customer-specific solutions on the Digimarc Illuminate platform: configure accounts, build integrations and web add-ons (Node/JavaScript), script data imports/exports, create demos/POCs, provide 2nd/3rd-level support, and collaborate with product, engineering, and customers to ensure successful deployments.

Leads mission formulation and architecture for international space opportunities. Develops mission concepts, performs mission-level analyses, owns top-level budgets, defines requirements, evaluates spacecraft and constellation configurations, and guides engineering teams through design trade studies. Collaborates with customers, scientists, and engineering disciplines to create practical, cost-effective satellite missions. Requires regular international travel and occasional travel to the Mountain View facility.

Design and implement software enabling convergence of 5G NR sidelink and Wi‑Fi 6 ad-hoc links. Build Layer‑3 mesh networking, multi-hop routing, dynamic resource management, EAP‑TLS security, and integration with gNB/UE stacks to optimize latency, reliability, and throughput in distributed wireless environments.

Design, build, test, and maintain production-ready, scalable API services and platform solutions using microservices and containerization. Collaborate with engineers, Data Engineers, CloudOps and Product to deploy and operate services on cloud platforms, ensure observability and readiness, and participate in Agile lifecycle activities.

Design, build, and maintain highly distributed Azure cloud infrastructure services. Deliver new features, ensure high reliability and performance, monitor and alert on system health, act as DRI, and participate in on-call diagnostics and remediation.

Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed host networking systems for Azure. Develop host agent services for network configuration, connectivity, and traffic orchestration; improve reliability, observability, and deployment safety; lead incident RCA and mentor engineers while driving architectural direction.

Lead and grow a software engineering team to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed cloud services that automate infrastructure maintenance, improve reliability, and support GPU-based AI platforms. Drive technical vision, partner across engineering and operations, modernize platforms, and use data-driven decisions to improve availability, performance, and operational efficiency at global scale.

Lead and grow an engineering team that designs, builds, and operates hyperscale distributed systems and cloud-native platform services for Azure. Drive technical strategy, architecture, cross-team initiatives, operational excellence, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and observable infrastructure solutions.

Build and maintain integrations with cloud providers and third-party security tools; design data pipelines to normalize and validate diverse API inputs; implement authentication flows (OAuth2/OIDC/API keys); ensure reliability with error handling, retries, observability; document integrations and collaborate with engineering to deliver consistent data for downstream features.

Lead the post-quantum cryptography roadmap, design secure cryptographic primitives, and implement cryptographic solutions to ensure resilience against quantum threats for blockchain networks.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

Lead development and qualification of production PIC test capability, own tester qualification, drive test efficiency/capacity improvements, execute engineering change notices, participate in quality review boards, and collaborate with PIC design, fab, and module teams at the South San Francisco facility.

Motional seeks a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the development of computational infrastructure for self-driving technology, managing teams and overseeing systems architecture for autonomous vehicles.

Build and operate scalable Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, develop Terraform infrastructure-as-code, maintain internal developer platform and tooling, support automation, security, and performance, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and incident escalation.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Develop and productize SONiC-based NOS and platform software for Nokia switching products (Broadcom/Marvell) for data center and AI fabrics. Implement and debug networking features, protocols, and management interfaces; collaborate with test, product, and customers to ensure quality and requirements are met.

Lead refactoring and optimization of scalable data pipelines, design next-generation distributed storage and processing systems, build clean interfaces for diverse data consumers, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards and processes.