I write software for medical devices, and where I work we take the stance that we are software engineers, not developers or programmers. The idea being that we

I write software for medical devices, and where I work we take the stance that we are software engineers, not developers or programmers. The idea being that we design things that without the right failure analysis and mitigations could indeed kill people. The fact that we have an excellent track record is due to our engineering of a safe system.