After Aurora
- 18%Joined a startup6
- 9%Joined a big company3
- 73%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Aurora most often go to Waymo and Applied Intuition. 18% go small. Median stay 2y 5m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Aurora's headcount: 48 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 192 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 480.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1429% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3471% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 5mmiddle half 1y 4m to 3y 10m
Put Aurora side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Uber. Most leave for Waymo (14% of recorded departures).
15 of 48 recorded arrivals shown, 33 more from 32 other companies9 of 35 recorded departures shown, 26 more to 23 other companies
How long people stay
15%<1y
20%1-2y
44%2-4y
20%4-7y
2%7y+
41 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0014
1015
0116
1017
5118
8119
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9622
8623
2624
2525
1026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 51 joined, 37 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%93
0Eng Scorer caliber, 48 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer24
- Software Engineer Intern7
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Senior Software Engineer4
4 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 4% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 8%Exceptional4 people
- 25%Strong12 people
- 40%Solid19 people
- 27%Emerging13 people
48 of the 48 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 16 of the 48 people here with a read sit in them, 33%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer 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.
44%Titles that rose16 of 36 classified people
- 44%Rose16 people
- 56%Stayed level or fell20 people
36 of the 48 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 who recorded one title here and then left, it is 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. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 36 of the 48 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against. A direction holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley18.8%
- Stanford14.6%
- UIUC8.3%
- University of Pittsburgh8.3%
- Carnegie Mellon6.3%
- Penn6.3%
- Princeton6.3%
The 7 most listed schools among the 48 people here with a school on file.
Of the 48 people here with a school on file, 9 list UC Berkeley, 7 list Stanford and 4 list UIUC. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
35%have a public GitHub account on their profile
17 of the 48 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
90% of the people who have worked at Aurora and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Aurora
Everyone on the map
- 90%SF Bay Area43 · map 47%
- 6%New York3 · map 33%
All 48 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 they worked at Aurora: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Aurora, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 48 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Aurora: 14 are there now and 34 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Aurora is Waymo (5 people, 14% of recorded departures), followed by Applied Intuition.
- The most common previous employer before Aurora is Uber (10 people), followed by Google.
- The median tenure at Aurora is 2y 5m (middle half 1y 4m to 3y 10m).
- Of those who moved on from Aurora, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 9% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Aurora is 84 on the 0 to 99 scale (48 scored).
- The most common title held at Aurora is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 48 people here with a school on file, 9 list UC Berkeley (18.8%), then Stanford (7). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 90% of the 48 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 35% of the 48 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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