If you are a great software engineer that can solve hard problems yourself, and then you add to that real experience solving your own nontrivial problems with DL, then people will hire with no questions asked. The reason is that not many people have experience in DL. So companies need to get good engineers that have the problem solving mindset and motivation+creativity to learn new frameworks and lick the problems they face in new awesome ways. Industry is dying for people like that.

If you are that type of person then you can kill it with just a few weeks of hard study on your own.