C++ Systems Software Engineer (3‑month AI project)

About the role

Gramian Consultancy is looking for an experienced C/C++ engineer to join a 3‑month contract focused on building system‑level libraries and AI‑driven backend infrastructure. You will work remotely with a global team to develop high‑performance tools that support model training, evaluation pipelines, and automated code‑patch generation.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and extend secure, high‑performance system software in C/C++.
• Integrate and contribute to open‑source projects such as OpenSSL, FFmpeg, glibc, systemd, tcpdump, libssh2, ImageMagick, and FreeRDP.
• Design and implement tooling for model training and evaluation workflows supporting AI‑assisted software maintenance.
• Build systems that suggest code patches from bug reports, issue descriptions, and vulnerability IDs.
• Automate assessment of pull‑requests and patch diffs for correctness and completeness.
• Collaborate with AI engineers on Rust bindings and Python‑based orchestration.
• Analyze low‑level system behavior using profiling, tracing, and debugging tools.
• Write clear, maintainable code and documentation for internal and external libraries.

Required profile

• 4+ years of professional experience in C and/or C++ (C99+, C++11/14/17).
• Strong background in systems programming, memory management, and networking internals.
• Hands‑on experience with the Linux kernel, glibc, and multithreaded programming.
• Proven ability to work with complex open‑source libraries and tooling.

Required skills

• C, C++ (C99+, C++11/14/17)
• Linux kernel development, glibc, multithreading
• OpenSSL, zlib, FFmpeg, libssh2, ImageMagick, FreeRDP
• systemd, tcpdump
• Debugging and profiling tools: gdb, valgrind, perf, tcpdump
• Rust (for bindings) and Python (orchestration)