programmer vs applied scientist

programmer and applied scientist both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
programmer	Yes	No	No	No
applied scientist	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, applied scientist is a hypernym of programmer; that is, applied scientist is a word with a broader meaning than programmer:

programmer: a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs
applied scientist: a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

Other hypernyms of programmer include engineer, technologist, computer user.

programmer (noun)	applied scientist (noun)
a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs	a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems