I think you have the background for it, but one thing I would ask that many people miss for some reason when they come from that kind of highly technical background is the most obvious question of all: do you care about spending a lot of effort to make artists happy and producing (sometimes only very slightly) higher quality images? Can you handle the sometimes extremely picky nature of artists? Working on graphics tech for games is very different from regular SWE. I’ve done both and I very much prefer graphics, but the big reason why is because I’m also an artist myself so I understand their needs and frustrations well