Depends. If you mean people who's work involves developing software by typing instructions into a computer via a keyboard interface... and this is what entirel

Depends. If you mean people who's work involves developing software by typing instructions into a computer via a keyboard interface... and this is what entirely defines a software engineer. Then possibly. If you mean people who's work involves developing software by instructing computers in various other ways (e.g. via talking, feeding it pictures, videos, audio, or other data)... and this is what defines a soft-... er I mean data scientist. Then I'd argue data scientists are just a newer software engineer. If you mean engineers in the true and general sense? Never. Devising new technology & solving problems are skills forever employable.