I feel the pain of people that want to stay in science and do not want to move to software engineering. At the same time, at the end of the graduate school many people loose their passion for science. I would recommend these people to learn how to write code and move to industry. The demand for programmers is pretty high.

P.S. I got PhD in theoretical Physics at UC Davis, but moved to Bay Area for a Machine Learning job.

I love Physics, and can get back to it after retirement, but right now now I am paid well, and more flexible. I like that I can choose company and geography. Postdocs and faculty members do not have this luxury.