New C++ engineering roles that pay $300,000 a year or more — trading firms, AI labs and infrastructure teams — straight from their job boards.
OpenAI is hiring a Software Engineer, DevOps in its Hardware organization (San Francisco · Remote) to build CI/CD, GitOps and monorepo systems that qualify frontier models and software on its custom AI accelerators. Pay is stated as $318K–$485K plus equity; the posting was published 2026-10-01.
OpenAI's Robotics team is hiring a Control Systems Software Engineer in San Francisco to design real-time control algorithms, actuation and whole-robot architecture, working hands-on with robots in person 5 days a week. Pay is stated as $380K–$460K plus equity; published 2026-09-08.
Quantum Minds is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for LLVM, fuzzing and program analysis, a remote (US) contract role described as full-time, working on an analysis pipeline being prepared for open-source release. It requires strong C/C++ and LLVM IR/pass development experience; no pay is stated in the posting (published 2026-10-06).
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Roles building cryptography and privacy technology: applied cryptographers, ZK and FHE engineers, security engineers working on protocols.
Senior Rust roles at companies that run Rust in production — infrastructure, networking, crypto and developer tools.
Machine learning, research and inference engineering roles at AI labs and AI-heavy companies that pay $300,000 a year or more.