We are currently having a hell of a time trying to hire embedded developers In my opinion that is essentially almost the same problem, though depending on the

We are currently having a hell of a time trying to hire embedded developers In my opinion that is essentially almost the same problem, though depending on the university/courses followed. To be able to program bare metal one needs some knowledge of bare metal, which is what an EE has. To be able to program one also needs some programming knowledge, which most EEs have. However if you take a 'standard' software engineer then they often only have a clue about the latter.