I have had great luck hiring game devs and cross training into embedded. "Oh I have to stream data into my processing routines with not nearly enough bandwidth

I have had great luck hiring game devs and cross training into embedded. "Oh I have to stream data into my processing routines with not nearly enough bandwidth? No problem." I've also had smiles of delight when devs got 100% raw access to every little bit of hardware. Discovering DMA controllers is /fun/ for them. We came super close to getting a decompression routine running completely by our DMA controller!