After Cerebras
- 20%Joined a startup7
- 40%Joined a big company14
- 40%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Cerebras most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Cerebras's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 51 people on a map of 67,181, No. 461 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 510.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 1631% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3569% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y 5m to 3y 7m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from NVIDIA.
36 recorded departures to 32 companies, none more than 2 to any one of them
8%3NVIDIA3 of 39 recorded arrivals shown, 36 more from 35 other companies0 of 36 recorded departures shown, 36 more to 32 other companies
How long people stay
22%<1y
24%1-2y
31%2-4y
16%4-7y
7%7y+
45 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3015
<3016
5<317
5318
6319
7<320
10621
81222
3723
4324
3325
4<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2015 to 2026: 57 joined, 41 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (22).
Titles held here
- Member of Technical Staff20
- Senior Member of Technical Staff6
- Software Engineer Intern4
- Machine Learning Engineer3
- Software Engineer3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 10% of people here.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
29%Titles that rose10 of 34 classified people
- 29%Rose10 people
- 50%Stayed level17 people
- 21%Fell7 people
34 of the 51 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
- Stanford27.5%
- Carnegie Mellon17.7%
- MIT11.8%
- UC Berkeley7.8%
- University of Maryland5.9%
- University of Waterloo5.9%
The 6 most listed schools among the 51 people here with a school on file.
14 of the 51 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 9 list Carnegie Mellon and 6 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
37%have a public GitHub account on their profile
19 of the 51 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
88% of the people who have worked at Cerebras and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Cerebras
Everyone on the map
- 88%SF Bay Area45 · map 41%
- 12%Somewhere else6
All 51 people who worked at Cerebras 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 Cerebras: 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 Cerebras, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 51 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Cerebras: 16 are there now, 35 have moved on.
- Most arrive from NVIDIA: 3 people.
- Median tenure at Cerebras: 2y 1m, middle half 1y 5m to 3y 7m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Cerebras, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 40% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Member of Technical Staff, then Senior Member of Technical Staff.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 14 of the 51 people here with one on file (27.5%). Then Carnegie Mellon (9).
- 88% of the 51 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.
- 37% of the 51 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 10 rose, 17 stayed level, 7 fell, out of the 34 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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