After Boston Dynamics
- 21%Founded something3
- 21%Joined a startup3
- 21%Joined a big company3
- 36%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Boston Dynamics most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 21% found something next and 21% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 3m
Not Boston Dynamics's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 31 people on a map of 67,181, No. 805 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 31Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1755% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1445% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 3mmiddle half 1y 8m to 3y 8m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Amazon.
14 recorded departures to 13 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
18%5Amazon
5 of 28 recorded arrivals shown, 23 more from 22 other companies0 of 14 recorded departures shown, 14 more to 13 other companies
How long people stay
7%<1y
33%1-2y
43%2-4y
13%4-7y
3%7y+
30 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 30 joined, 14 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (18).
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer15
- Staff Software Engineer7
- Software Engineer3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
Where they studied
- MIT19.4%
- Carnegie Mellon16.1%
- Georgia Tech16.1%
The 3 most listed schools among the 31 people here with a school on file.
6 of the 31 people here with a school on file list MIT, 5 list Carnegie Mellon and 5 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
23%have a public GitHub account on their profile
7 of the 31 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
39% of the people who have worked at Boston Dynamics and list a location live in Boston today, against 2% of everyone on the map.
Boston Dynamics
Everyone on the map
- 39%Boston12 · map 2%
- 39%SF Bay Area12 · map 41%
- 23%Somewhere else7
All 31 people who worked at Boston Dynamics 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 Boston Dynamics: 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 Boston Dynamics, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 31 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Boston Dynamics: 17 are there now, 14 have moved on.
- Most arrive from Amazon: 5 people.
- Median tenure at Boston Dynamics: 2y 3m, middle half 1y 8m to 3y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Boston Dynamics, 21% went to a founder title next, 21% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 21% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Staff Software Engineer.
- Top school: MIT, listed by 6 of the 31 people here with one on file (19.4%). Then Carnegie Mellon (5).
- 39% of the 31 people here who list a location live in Boston today, against 2% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 23% of the 31 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
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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