I just say "I write code" in casual conversation. Otherwise I use whatever term my company uses. That has mostly been 'engineer'. I did CS/EE in college. Can't

I just say "I write code" in casual conversation. Otherwise I use whatever term my company uses. That has mostly been 'engineer'. I did CS/EE in college. Can't say I elevate one over the other. I knew plenty of people that were good at one but not the other. In general we optimize our behavior - if you have to send a chip to fab you spend a ton of time on simulation and validation before going physical. In software we can just fire up our debugger and inject values in by hand. Neither is fundamentally 'better' than the other. However, I think you can get away with poor techniques much easier in SW. Bosses notice really quickly when a CPU fab run turn out chips that don't work and the cost (money) of that mistake is detrimental to your career.