And then after those comes "Distinguished engineer/Engineering Fellow", which basically means: "You are famous enough that we pay you mostly to get a shiny halo

And then after those comes "Distinguished engineer/Engineering Fellow", which basically means: "You are famous enough that we pay you mostly to get a shiny halo effect from employing you. If you also solve some actual problems, yes please." People like Guido van Rossum and Simon Peyton Jones would fall into this bracket.