A couple of weeks ago I wrote here about the design engineering role. I decided to write it up in a blog post
https://rosenqvist.design/posts/How-to-become-Design-Engineer-as-Designer.html
Learning to code is relatively straight forward with loads of resources that can help you. Creating a new role in your organization, that is also a hybrid role, is the hard part. I’ve never seen any guide to do that and it would need to be tailored to each organization