Senior C++ Engineer - PCB Automation & HPC

Quilter; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Quilter is seeking Senior to Staff C++ Engineers to join our engineering teams developing the next generation of automated PCB design. You’ll design high-performance C++ algorithms, data structures, and systems that tackle challenges in computational geometry, optimization, HPC, and physics simulation.

As a senior engineer, you’ll shape the technical roadmap, mentor peers, and help build the foundation for scalable PCB design.

Qualifications

• 3–10+ years of industry experience maintaining and extending large, high-performance C++ codebases.
• Deep expertise in computational geometry, graph algorithms, optimization, HPC, meshing, numerical methods, physics simulations, or related fields.
• Proficiency in Python for prototyping and integration with ML systems.
• Experience architecting and scaling large, collaborative C++ codebases.
• Strong mathematical and algorithmic intuition, with ability to translate theory into production systems.
• Leadership skills in mentoring, reviewing, and guiding engineering direction.
• A passion for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in automated circuit design.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement high-performance C++ libraries, algorithms, and systems for routing, optimization, and simulation.
• Design scalable data structures and computational methods to handle complex PCB design challenges.
• Strong collaboration with domain experts across different disciplines.
• Provide mentorship, technical reviews, and guidance to elevate the team’s engineering practices.

Skills

C++ - high performance

Python prototyping

Leadership & mentoring

Math & algorithms

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in CS/Computational Physics/Robotics

Tools

CUDA

HPC frameworks

CAD/EDA familiarity

Open-source contributions

Job description

Quilter is seeking Senior to Staff C++ Engineers to join our engineering teams developing the next generation of automated PCB design. You’ll design high-performance C++ algorithms, data structures, and systems that tackle challenges in computational geometry, optimization, HPC, and physics simulation.

As a senior engineer, you’ll shape the technical roadmap, mentor peers, and help build the foundation for scalable PCB design.