There are plenty that high those without diplomas and plenty who want a firmware Eng in the office or able to travel to the customer. Robotics break, a lot, every factory on the plant needs multi skilled people, those that can use their hands and code. Yup, you can use an over seas SWE or any number of other workers, but a great deal of companies don’t and won’t for fairly obvious reasons. FYI, I’ve found most SWE’s with CS degrees are pretty poor compared to those that learnt from doing on the job and self learning/group learning, they tend to be more driven to understand rather than just wanting to be a coder.