After NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- 2%Founded something3
- 25%Joined a startup30
- 18%Joined a big company22
- 55%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NASA Goddard Space Flight Center most often go to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Northrop Grumman and Google. Of them, 25% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 2m
Not NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 146 people on a map of 67,181, No. 165 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1460.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 107% of the people here
- Moved on
- 13693% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 2mmiddle half 4m to 4y 8m
Put NASA Goddard Space Flight Center side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Most leave for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (4% of recorded departures).
3 of 63 recorded arrivals shown, 60 more from 56 other companies19 of 132 recorded departures shown, 113 more to 100 other companies
How long people stay
34%<1y
9%1-2y
28%2-4y
9%4-7y
21%7y+
68 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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192218
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 127 joined, 128 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 51 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Intern11
- Software Engineer7
- Summer Intern7
- Research Assistant5
- Software Development Intern4
- Engineering Intern3
- Robotics Engineering Intern3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 45% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 22%Exceptional or strong11 people
- 27%Solid14 people
- 35%Emerging18 people
- 16%Unproven8 people
51 of the 146 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
11 of the 51 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 22%. 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. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed with the one next to it, because that few is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
42%Titles that rose45 of 108 classified people
- 42%Rose45 people
- 55%Stayed level59 people
- 4%Fell4 people
108 of the 146 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
- University of Maryland20.6%
- MIT11.0%
- Georgia Tech10.3%
- Johns Hopkins7.5%
- UMBC7.5%
- Carnegie Mellon5.5%
- UC Berkeley4.1%
- Stanford3.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 146 people here with a school on file.
30 of the 146 people here with a school on file list University of Maryland, 16 list MIT and 15 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
25%have a public GitHub account on their profile
36 of the 146 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
47% of the people who have worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Everyone on the map
- 47%Washington DC69 · map 13%
- 23%SF Bay Area34 · map 41%
- 8%New York11 · map 18%
- 5%Baltimore7 · map 0.7%
- 5%Boston7 · map 2%
- 5%Seattle7 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles5 · map 5%
- 4%Somewhere else6
All 146 people who worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 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 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: 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 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 146 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: 10 are there now, 136 have moved on.
- Most leave for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory: 5 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Northrop Grumman and Google.
- Most arrive from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration: 3 people.
- Median tenure at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: 2y 2m, middle half 4m to 4y 8m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 2% went to a founder title next, 25% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 18% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 51 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Intern.
- Top school: University of Maryland, listed by 30 of the 146 people here with one on file (20.5%). Then MIT (16).
- 47% of the 146 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 25% of the 146 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 45 rose, 59 stayed level, 4 fell, out of the 108 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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