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I don't love having an Engineer title but it's the reality of the workplace in the US at least. Software Engineer and related are very, very common. Now even so

• deathanatos 4y ago
  "Software Engineer" is pretty much a literal description of the job. What these threads always miss is the definition of the word engineering[1]: > The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology The Wikipedia article for Engineer[2] further drives it home: > The work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their subsequent applications to human and business needs and quality of life. And that's what I do: I take the field I studied (Computer Science) and I apply the knowledge and discoveries of that field¹ towards the needs of humanity, i.e., I engineer. (Typically, and it is somewhat expected, I engineer software. Not always, ofc.) People get hung up on that "PE" is a specific term of art in some jurisdictions and some fields, with a correspondingly more narrow definition. [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/engineering https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/engineering [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer ¹or, well, some of us do. The profession these days seems to have a real problem with knowledge.