The certification exists, at least in Canada. You can be a software PE. It's [snip] generally not required for anything. The other side of it is that some sa

The certification exists, at least in Canada. You can be a software PE. It's [snip] generally not required for anything. The other side of it is that some safety critical work does require a PE to sign off on it, and that work may include software, and that PE is going to be held responsible. He may be a EE in his training but he'd be responsible for the software engineers/developers doing the work properly.