After Air Force Research Laboratory
- 29%Joined a startup21
- 18%Joined a big company13
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Air Force Research Laboratory most often go to United States Air Force. Of them, 29% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 10m
Not Air Force Research Laboratory's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 92 people on a map of 67,181, No. 253 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 920.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 67% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8693% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 10mmiddle half 3m to 2y 3m
Put Air Force Research Laboratory side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for United States Air Force (4% of recorded departures).
33 recorded arrivals from 30 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 33 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 30 other companies3 of 83 recorded departures shown, 80 more to 69 other companies
How long people stay
52%<1y
15%1-2y
25%2-4y
3%4-7y
5%7y+
61 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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5613
9714
141215
4516
9917
11818
101019
9520
81621
6522
5<323
7524
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 104 joined, 100 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (21).
Titles held here
- Research Intern11
- Research Assistant5
- Research Engineer4
- Software Engineer4
- Afrl Scholar3
- Machine Learning Researcher3
6 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 51% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
32%Titles that rose16 of 50 classified people
- 32%Rose16 people
- 58%Stayed level29 people
- 10%Fell5 people
50 of the 92 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first. For someone with one title here who then left, it's measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. Titles that match no rung are left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely as a different ladder. What's left leans towards people who have left: someone still here on one recorded title has nothing to measure against.
Where they studied
- Georgia Tech17.4%
- MIT12.0%
- Air Force Institute of Technology9.8%
- Stanford9.8%
- Ohio State8.7%
- Wright State University5.4%
- Purdue4.4%
- United States Air Force Academy4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 92 people here with a school on file.
16 of the 92 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 11 list MIT and 9 list Air Force Institute of Technology. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
22%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 92 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
22% of the people who have worked at Air Force Research Laboratory and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Air Force Research Laboratory
Everyone on the map
- 22%SF Bay Area20 · map 41%
- 16%Washington DC15 · map 13%
- 11%New York10 · map 18%
- 7%Dayton6
- 5%Boston5 · map 2%
- 5%Columbus5
- 4%Los Angeles4 · map 5%
- 4%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 25%Somewhere else23
All 92 people who worked at Air Force Research Laboratory list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Air Force Research Laboratory: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Air Force Research Laboratory, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 92 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Air Force Research Laboratory: 6 are there now, 86 have moved on.
- Most leave for United States Air Force: 3 people, 4% of recorded departures.
- Median tenure at Air Force Research Laboratory: 10m, middle half 3m to 2y 3m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Air Force Research Laboratory, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 29% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Research Intern, then Research Assistant.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 16 of the 92 people here with one on file (17.4%). Then MIT (11).
- 22% of the 92 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 22% of the 92 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 16 rose, 29 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 50 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder before and after.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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