Pay isn't great and there aren 't a lot of jobs. For more high level software dev there are lot's of jobs and the pay is much better. Just as an example, in Va

Pay isn't great and there aren 't a lot of jobs. For more high level software dev there are lot's of jobs and the pay is much better. Just as an example, in Vancouver, I got poached by a recruiter from G&E to work with FPGA in a senior position. The offer was around 80K. At London a senior embedded systems engineer would get 40-45k pounds. A senior fullstack / devops / backend dev at any of those cities can clear around 50% more easily with 10 times more jobs available to pick from.