After Aurora
- 19%Joined a startup13
- 17%Joined a big company12
- 64%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Aurora most often go to Waymo, Google and Applied Intuition. Of them, 19% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y
Not Aurora's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 118 people on a map of 67,181, No. 198 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1180.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4740% of the people here
- Moved on
- 7160% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 1y 3m to 4y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Uber. Most leave for Waymo (11% of recorded departures).
48 of 116 recorded arrivals shown, 68 more from 65 other companies30 of 71 recorded departures shown, 41 more to 37 other companies
How long people stay
16%<1y
19%1-2y
33%2-4y
30%4-7y
2%7y+
108 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3015
0<316
<3017
8<318
10<319
9420
391521
221022
161423
71724
71425
5<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 126 joined, 79 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 54 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer40
- Senior Software Engineer24
- Staff Software Engineer19
- Software Engineer Intern13
- Software Engineer II11
- Senior Staff Software Engineer4
- Machine Learning Engineer3
- Software Engineer I3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 3% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional4 people
- 24%Strong13 people
- 41%Solid22 people
- 28%Emerging15 people
54 of the 118 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 54 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 31%. A tier is the band a caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
51%Titles that rose40 of 79 classified people
- 51%Rose40 people
- 41%Stayed level32 people
- 9%Fell7 people
79 of the 118 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
- UC Berkeley15.4%
- Carnegie Mellon12.0%
- Stanford10.3%
- UIUC7.7%
- Georgia Tech6.0%
- MIT5.1%
- USC5.1%
- Caltech4.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 117 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 117 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 14 list Carnegie Mellon and 12 list Stanford. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
36%have a public GitHub account on their profile
43 of the 118 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
72% of the people who have worked at Aurora and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Aurora
Everyone on the map
- 72%SF Bay Area85 · map 41%
- 8%Pittsburgh9 · map 0.4%
- 5%Washington DC6 · map 13%
- 4%Seattle5 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
- 3%New York3 · map 18%
- 6%Somewhere else7
All 118 people who worked at Aurora 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 Aurora: 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 Aurora, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 118 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Aurora: 47 are there now, 71 have moved on.
- Most leave for Waymo: 8 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then Google and Applied Intuition.
- Most arrive from Uber: 30 people. Then Google and Meta.
- Median tenure at Aurora: 3y, middle half 1y 3m to 4y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Aurora, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 19% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 17% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 54 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 18 of the 117 people here with one on file (15.4%). Then Carnegie Mellon (14).
- 72% of the 118 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.
- 36% of the 118 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 40 rose, 32 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 79 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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