After C3 AI
- 4%Founded something6
- 25%Joined a startup40
- 31%Joined a big company50
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave C3 AI most often go to Meta, Scale AI and Google. Of them, 4% found something next and 25% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y
Not C3 AI's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 213 people on a map of 67,181, No. 109 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2130.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4722% of the people here
- Moved on
- 16678% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2ymiddle half 1y 2m to 3y 4m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Meta. Most leave for Meta (11% of recorded departures).
39 of 191 recorded arrivals shown, 152 more from 141 other companies57 of 163 recorded departures shown, 106 more to 93 other companies
How long people stay
18%<1y
29%1-2y
37%2-4y
16%4-7y
1%7y+
199 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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<3<316
5<317
9318
8<319
18420
381421
362422
352923
381824
234525
32726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 217 joined, 173 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%85
0Eng Scorer caliber, 102 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer80
- Forward Deployed Engineer30
- Senior Software Engineer25
- Data Scientist17
- Software Engineer Intern14
- Senior Data Scientist12
- Solution Engineer9
- Associate Software Engineer6
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 7% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Strong9 people
- 33%Solid34 people
- 44%Emerging45 people
- 14%Unproven14 people
102 of the 213 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
9 of the 102 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 9%. 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.
43%Titles that rose76 of 175 classified people
- 43%Rose76 people
- 47%Stayed level83 people
- 9%Fell16 people
175 of the 213 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 Berkeley13.2%
- UIUC10.8%
- Georgia Tech8.9%
- Stanford8.9%
- Carnegie Mellon8.5%
- MIT4.7%
- USC4.7%
- Columbia3.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 213 people here with a school on file.
28 of the 213 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 23 list UIUC and 19 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
20%have a public GitHub account on their profile
42 of the 213 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
62% of the people who have worked at C3 AI and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
C3 AI
Everyone on the map
- 62%SF Bay Area132 · map 41%
- 16%Washington DC34 · map 13%
- 13%New York27 · map 18%
- 3%Los Angeles6 · map 5%
- 1%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 5%Somewhere else11
All 213 people who worked at C3 AI 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 C3 AI: 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 C3 AI, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 213 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at C3 AI: 47 are there now, 166 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 18 people, 11% of recorded departures. Then Scale AI and Google.
- Most arrive from Meta: 14 people. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Median tenure at C3 AI: 2y, middle half 1y 2m to 3y 4m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after C3 AI, 4% went to a founder title next, 25% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 31% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 102 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Forward Deployed Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 28 of the 213 people here with one on file (13.2%). Then UIUC (23).
- 62% of the 213 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.
- 20% of the 213 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 76 rose, 83 stayed level, 16 fell, out of the 175 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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