To be honest, two years after graduating without getting a job using the degree is probably hurting you. Would you hire a person straight out of school, or a person who has been trying unsuccessfully for two years to get a job? Not saying this is your fault, the market has been shit since you graduated, but to be blunt that's the perception you're up against. Remove your graduation date from your resume if you haven't already. And, honestly, consider grad school as a means of "resetting" your new grad status, that will also give more time for the market to improve. In case you're not already, you need to be applying to any and every remotely computer-related job you can find. That includes test/validation, that includes help desk, that includes support/field engineer. Even if it's not what you want to be doing, your plan will be to leverage that role as a means to eventually jump into what you want to be doing - "look I can do technical stuff, but what I want to be doing is this specific technical stuff." The only other advice I have is to understand where in the chain you're coming up short. Application -> Recruiter screen -> Interview -> Offer. If you have lots of interviews but no offer, you need to improve your interviewing (either technical or behavioral). If you aren't getting lots of interviews or recruiter screens, then you need more applications and/or better ones, find someone in industry to do a resume review.

This is really good advice. Especially on the part of setting for any job in tech. You see all the time people who transition within their company or overtime from other roles.

One thing people sometimes underestimate, is that it can be a lot easier to switch roles within a company. Companies like it because it helps retain employees who would otherwise leave if they wanted a drastic career change.

I will say grad school is pretty expensive. I’d actually lean transitioning to SWE from a different role. I’ve done it myself at a FAANG.