Tell your interviewer if you provide leadership in technology directions: evaluating, and accepting or rejecting novel artifacts into products is an example. Setting coding standards, adopting new technology releases or taking initiative to organize work for the whole team are other examples. Show by examples how you are a person whose contributions reached others in your business and market segment.

Consider climate research. In the US that might be NCAR or GFDL. Lots of FORTRAN but newer languages common, too. Use applied physics. World Class supercomputers. Parallel algorithms. Lower pay scale. Some, not all, scientists pigeon hole programmers and look down on them.