I’ve been an engineer for a while now, where we have a mix of EE, ME, SysE, SWE, and the programmatic folks, lots of software/hardware integration at pretty “low” levels for each discipline, really fun.

One of the things I say is when I’m on my soapbox is: we are all engineers. We have different tools in our toolbox to solve problems. We get paid to solve problems, not (for example) write software. Software is just a tool.