Can a Mechanical Engineer Get a Software/CompSci Job?

cosmicfish
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:07:49 +0000

In my office we have phd’s MEs writing code.

Is that their primary job, or a smaller part of their overall responsibilities? I write code as part of my job, because it is the unique application of my design, but I am not a software engineer, my code never gets installed on deliverable hardware nor delivered on its own to the customers. Many, perhaps most, engineers write code, being a software engineer is a whole different type and level of work.