"we're ... called on to fix the deficiencies of mechanical or aero or electrical engineering" As an embedded and firmware developer, I can tell you that this h

"we're ... called on to fix the deficiencies of mechanical or aero or electrical engineering" As an embedded and firmware developer, I can tell you that this happens almost every day. If you ask how it is even possible to fix mechanical issues with software, know that it is true. But, you know, this time the electrical engineer screwed up the power supply and there's noisy glitches everywhere, we just can fix it with software they say. Or the mechanical engineer designed the cover plastic with the wrong material and LEDs light comes out ugly: no problem, let's arrange the weirdest PWM sequence with SW so it looks nice. This time, people died. Don't throw at us badly designed system so easily because it's just software.