Remote Senior C Software Engineer Jobs
Remote Senior C Software Engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like embedded systems, defense technology, telecommunications, and systems programming, with demand concentrated at remote-first software firms, distributed infrastructure teams, and companies modernizing legacy codebases. Employers hiring remotely right now include NinjaOne, Esri, and SAIC. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Lead preparation of high thru low work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools.
- Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope.
- Drive compliance utilizing scope, detailed work planning, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews.
- Lead “day-to-day” operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule.
- Coordinate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives.
- Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion.
- Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues.
- Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commission tests.
- Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading.
- Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives.
- Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management.
- Champion nuclear safety culture; Ensure compliance with GVH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program.
- Deliver work with integrity, safety, security, quality, and on-time output.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent 4-year technical degree from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in embedded software development, including a deep working knowledge of C Programming language and software development tools (GitLab version control, IDE’s, Debuggers, etc.).
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with C Coding conventions, unit testing, and integration testing of software.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation.
Eligibility Requirements
- The preferred work location for this role is at the GVH Headquarters in Wilmington, NC; but highly qualified (US based) remote candidates will be considered.
- Does require the ability to come onsite as needed for testing operations (about once a month).
- This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Desired Characteristics
- Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering.
- Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, and quality standards.
- 10 years of experience in commercial nuclear industry working in plant instrumentation application software, control and monitoring software system design, including implementation, test, installation, and commissioning.
- 10 years of application, field installation, and testing of systems, equipment.
- Competency in modeling and test data collection tools.
- Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader.
- Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving.
- Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule.
- Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences – Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations.
- Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness.
- Continuous improvement mindset with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process.
- Solid technical writing skills with focus on requirements and design documents.
- Effective use of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience understanding C Coding standards that meets and delivers desired functionality using technology selected for the project. Familiarity of MISRA-C is desirable.
- Experienced in product, instrument, system design, verification, validation, and qualification.
- Solves technical challenges through application of common design patterns and identifying appropriate patterns for use in problem solving.
- Experience in design verification and validation.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills and ability to articulate clearly
- Contributes to creative solutions and challenges status quo.
- Proactively learns new tools and identifies opportunities for improvement and promotes their adoption.
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This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional Information
GE Vernova offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
For candidates applying to a U.S. based position, the pay range for this position is between $113,200.00 and $188,800.00. The Company pays a geographic differential of 110%, 120% or 130% of salary in certain areas. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set.
Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus.
This posting is expected to remain open for at least seven days after it was posted on September 25, 2026.
Available benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
GE Vernova Inc. or its affiliates (collectively or individually, “GE Vernova”) sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs GE Vernova reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a GE Vernova welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote senior C software engineer jobs.
- 5 or more years of professional C programming experience in production environments
- Deep knowledge of memory management, pointers, and manual resource allocation
- Experience with POSIX systems, Linux kernel interfaces, or RTOS platforms
- Proficiency debugging with tools such as GDB, Valgrind, or AddressSanitizer
- Familiarity with cross-compilation toolchains and embedded or low-level hardware targets
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical field
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Show your async communication skills upfront
Remote engineering teams rely on written handoffs, design documents, and asynchronous code reviews. Include examples of technical documentation or architecture decision records you've authored, since remote hiring managers weight written clarity as heavily as coding ability for senior C roles.
Build a portfolio of low-level systems work
Remote employers can't watch you work, so your public code does the talking. Push C projects to a public repository that demonstrate memory safety, performance profiling, or embedded systems integration, since those artifacts validate senior-level judgment in a way a resume line can't.
Set up a professional async development environment
Remote senior c software engineer interviews frequently include take-home systems exercises and live debugging sessions over video. Having a clean, documented local build environment, a reliable screen-sharing setup, and familiarity with tools like GDB and Valgrind remotely signals professional readiness to distributed teams.
Remote Senior C Software Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote senior c software engineer job?
Target companies that run fully distributed engineering teams, since they've built the processes that make remote C development work. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, precise async written communication, and the ability to debug and iterate independently without pairing sessions. Demonstrating deep experience with systems programming, memory management, and low-level debugging in your portfolio gives you a clear edge over candidates with only high-level language experience.
Which companies hire remote senior c software engineers?
Companies hiring remote senior c software engineers right now include NinjaOne, Esri, and SAIC, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first firms and distributed teams in embedded systems, defense, telecommunications, and infrastructure software account for the largest share of these openings.
Can you get a remote senior c software engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level C roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot and ship independently from day one without in-office mentorship. Open-source contributions to C projects, a public portfolio of systems work, or prior internship experience with embedded or low-level code are the strongest substitutes. Small remote-first firms and contract-to-hire arrangements tend to be more open to junior candidates than large distributed teams.
Do you need a degree for remote senior c software engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers for senior C roles care most about demonstrated ability to write safe, efficient, low-level code, so a strong portfolio of real systems work, open-source commits, or shipped embedded products carries significant weight. That said, defense and government contractors frequently require a computer science or electrical engineering degree due to security clearance and compliance requirements, so a degree still matters in those sectors.
Which industries hire the most remote senior c software engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote senior c software engineers are Technology & Software, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These industries rely on distributed engineering teams to build and maintain performance-critical, resource-constrained software where C expertise is difficult to replace.
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