Yeah but the title Application Engineer sounds like Dev Ops or backend engineer or front end engineer. Never is it mentioned that this is a position that is no

Yeah but the title Application Engineer sounds like Dev Ops or backend engineer or front end engineer. Never is it mentioned that this is a position that is not a software engineer and is paid less than a software engineer. Like do I need to ask whether a backend engineer is a software engineer? If not why do I need to ask this about an Application Engineer? This role is where google puts most of their contractors.