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In my sub-field (embedded systems), I don't see it. There are companies that see the value of 40 years of experience. (And there are plenty that don't...)

But the vibe I'm hearing lately is that junior engineers can't get jobs, because AI. I don't know if that reflects the reality (I haven't been trying to find a job as a junior in quite a while), but people are complaining about that these days.

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There's less ageism in embedded systems because older folks are more likely to be experienced with a lean & mean tech stack (for example vanilla C programming).

I did a lot of microcontroller and FPGA stuff in college a decade ago (and most of the stuff like Verilog and Cortex chips or RTOSes weren't exactly new then), but since then have drifted away from the field - I tried to get back into it as a hobby, and checked out what's new, and it seems to me that surprisingly has changed.

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