In the US it's a title and nothing more. And an HR one, not a legal or otherwise formal one. An HR title. Don't listen to anybody who tries to tell you that pro

In the US it's a title and nothing more. And an HR one, not a legal or otherwise formal one. An HR title. Don't listen to anybody who tries to tell you that programmers with 'engineer' in their title are more 'rigorous' than people with 'developer' in their title. That is pure retroactive continuity and hasn't yet been widely backed up by anything. Now, someone with a degree called Software Engineering may well have had a somewhat different education than someone with a Computer Science degree. That's another matter, and whether the former makes them an engineer in the protected sense depends on where they are and exactly what the degree program was.