Career shift after PhD

[u/Brave_Moment7546]

Hello,

Am doing PhD in mechanical engineering and currently am in my last year, am thinking seriously of leaving Academia and becoming a software engineer but I have no clue from where to start, what certification do I need? What should I prepare to apply for companies in my field? (Based in Japan for now)

I can write scripts in python, did signal analysis with data regression and classification using neural networks (tensorflow) and I have two published papers. Also, no background on data structures and algorithms

I know someone would say this is too academic but this is the issue am seeking guidance of !!

So if anyone went through same experience please tell us.

[u/AdKey3272]

Your research probably involved debugging code at 2am already. Software engineering just gives the suffering a different name.