Top C++ Jobs in San Diego, CA

Develop and maintain C++ and Python simulation adapters, plugins, interfaces, and reusable framework components. Support migration from HMSSimBlocks to HMSF, integrate simulation backends, maintain CIGI and DDS interfaces, troubleshoot autonomy integration issues, and create tests and documentation. Collaborate with senior engineers on code reviews, debugging, design discussions, and integration support across simulation and autonomy teams.

Develop and maintain C++ and Python simulation adapters, plugins, interfaces, and reusable components. Support migration from HMSSimBlocks to HMSF, integrate simulation backends, maintain CIGI and DDS communications, diagnose distributed-system issues, and create tests and documentation. Collaborate with simulation, autonomy, and integration teams on code reviews, debugging, and framework improvements.

Leads architecture and hands-on development for ServiceNow’s Workflow Data Fabric, including federated query, data synchronization, private connectivity, streaming, ingestion, and data quality platforms. Owns scalability, reliability, security, performance, technical standards, production escalations, and cross-team engineering direction. Mentors senior engineers and partners with product, infrastructure, security, quality, and support teams to deliver large-scale distributed data systems.

Develop and test C++ and Python software, embedded firmware, autonomy features, simulation tools, and testing infrastructure for UAV systems. Work with sensors, perception, planning, mission systems, and real or simulated data. Investigate failures using logs and telemetry, support hardware- and software-in-the-loop integration, collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, document workflows, and participate in code reviews and design discussions.

Leads embedded digital engineering for aerospace radar and electronic warfare products, owning digital architecture from concept through production. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, FPGA and VHDL development, circuit card design, DSP algorithms, simulation, verification, system integration, and production transition. The role interfaces with RF subsystems, leads testing and integration, authors technical documentation, and mentors junior engineers.

Design, develop, and integrate 5G cellular modem firmware and modules into OpenWrt-based router and gateway platforms. Develop Linux kernel drivers, modem communication interfaces, connection-management daemons, routing and failover systems, and network configurations. Optimize throughput and latency, perform firmware updates, debug connectivity across the RF-to-user-space stack, integrate cellular features, collaborate on RF and antenna validation, and create technical documentation.

Develop and maintain autonomy integration environments, reference configurations, automated software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests, integration tools, and vehicle or hardware interfaces. Debug failures across planning, controls, simulation, perception, deployment, network, timing, and hardware boundaries. Support autonomy stack deployment, lab and flight testing, failure analysis, documentation, and technical collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Design and implement high-performance middleware, runtime services, tooling, and foundational software for Shield AI’s EdgeOS and Hivemind autonomy systems. Develop across Linux, real-time operating systems, and resource-constrained embedded platforms. Contribute to interface definition languages, debugging and observability tools, automated testing, documentation, architecture, code reviews, technical guidance, and mentorship while collaborating with autonomy, systems, simulation, and test engineering teams.

Lead integration of autonomy components into reference implementations and deployable stacks. Develop C++ and Python tooling, software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop tests, platform integration layers, automated fixtures, and troubleshooting workflows. Investigate cross-system failures, support deployment to representative hardware, collaborate on flight testing, analyze integration issues, and create documentation and training materials. The role spans perception, localization, planning, real-time systems, and safety-critical autonomous platforms.

Design, develop, debug, and test embedded software for aerospace systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, integrate hardware and software, complete projects on schedule, conduct code reviews, and implement testing procedures. The role also involves applying embedded C/C++, real-time operating systems, microcontroller architectures, communication protocols, debugging tools, and software development lifecycle practices.

Develop and operate Java and Kotlin services for a large-scale cloud platform. Responsibilities include designing, testing, deploying, and improving software; diagnosing production reliability and performance issues; addressing scalability bottlenecks; enhancing observability; participating in incident response; and contributing to architecture, code reviews, and operational improvements.

Provides sustaining process engineering support for semiconductor solar cell wafer and assembly production. Maintains process control using SPC, troubleshoots equipment and manufacturing anomalies, and drives improvements to reduce cycle time and cost while improving product performance. Supports solar technology R&D, process and product development, material characterization, safety initiatives, and cross-functional Operations objectives. This is a 100% onsite, second-shift role requiring U.S. Person status and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Design, build, and operate a global observability platform across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Responsibilities include developing monitoring pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, reliability automation, SLI/SLO frameworks, performance optimization, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production troubleshooting. The role partners with engineering teams to improve system resilience, reduce toil, integrate AI/ML for anomaly detection, and establish observability best practices. It also provides technical mentorship and guidance.

Lead trajectory prediction and aircraft-response modeling for safety-critical runtime assurance systems. Develop and validate models using Python, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and flight-test data. Integrate trajectory behavior with autopilot interfaces, analyze vehicle-state and telemetry data, support flight-test campaigns, and contribute to C/C++ implementation, testing, and debugging. Coordinate with algorithms, software, systems, test, and platform teams while producing validation evidence and algorithm handoff artifacts.

Provides technical leadership for automated testing and verification across autonomy software, machine learning systems, distributed services, simulation environments, hardware-in-the-loop platforms, and GPU infrastructure. Owns test architecture, MLOps quality, CI/CD and continuous training workflows, ML validation, observability, failure triage, scenario-based testing, and scalable Python automation. Collaborates across software, autonomy, data, simulation, and systems engineering teams while governing AI-assisted testing workflows.

Develop and integrate safety-critical Run-Time Assurance software for autonomous aircraft. Responsibilities include modern C++ development, real-time embedded systems, hardware and simulation integration, HIL and flight testing, interface design, testing, CI, static and dynamic analysis, documentation, traceability, and collaboration across software, systems, test, and platform teams.

Develop cross-platform C++ and Qt software for network device discovery, monitoring, and data collection across Windows and Linux. Build high-performance, concurrent, asynchronous systems that communicate with thousands of devices using SNMP, SSH, ICMP, WMI, and related protocols. Own testing, troubleshoot issues across application, operating-system, and network layers, optimize reliability and performance, and collaborate with backend, UI, QA, and product teams.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Develop and maintain ServiceNow’s server-side JavaScript engine and application lifecycle platform. Responsibilities include designing scalable runtime systems, optimizing execution and memory management, building test automation, delivering end-to-end software, collaborating across teams, mentoring engineers, and addressing distributed systems, security, concurrency, and performance challenges.

Design, deploy, and optimize Philo’s distributed video streaming infrastructure, including ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, RESTful services, analytics pipelines, DRM, and ad insertion. Improve platform reliability, performance, latency, security, video quality, and cost efficiency. Collaborate with content partners and internal video, advertising, client, and data teams while supporting streaming quality across new platforms. The role also involves architectural ownership, cloud operations, and mentoring.

Lead development of scalable Java backend applications and high-availability cloud services. Design architectures, REST APIs, databases, caching systems, and distributed session infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive technical initiatives, address performance and scalability challenges, and uphold quality and automation practices for endpoint management products.

Develop state estimation and navigation algorithms for autonomous systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Build production-grade C++ software for embedded Linux robotic platforms, create modeling and simulation tools, and implement comprehensive testing and validation. Collaborate on roadmap planning and agile execution while improving benchmarking and performance-analysis pipelines. The role requires professional C++ expertise, state estimation algorithm experience, sensor-fusion familiarity, and the ability to deploy reliable autonomy software.

Develop scalable C++ software that defines and enforces endpoint behavior across millions of managed Windows endpoints. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, shipping production code, designing new systems, writing architecture documents, defining subsystem contracts, and collaborating with server, UI, product, and design teams. The role requires deep Windows systems and kernel-driver expertise, with preferred experience in WHQL, minifilter or WFP drivers, macOS Endpoint Security, and Linux kernel development.

Develop and optimize C++ and Python software for autonomous behavior and motion planning. Design trajectory-planning algorithms for single- and multi-agent systems, build testing and simulation tools, diagnose concurrency and performance issues, and validate software on simulated and real hardware. Collaborate across teams on requirements, architecture, flight testing, and product maturation while mentoring engineers and applying advances in robotics and learned planning.

Leads a 5–10 person autonomy engineering team developing motion planning, tactical behaviors, multi-agent coordination, track fusion, and decision-making capabilities. Owns hiring, mentoring, technical direction, architecture, delivery, integration, validation, and field deployment across software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and live testing. Collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams and defense customers while remaining technically engaged in C++ development and complex autonomy challenges.