After NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 2%Founded something5
- 20%Joined a startup57
- 31%Joined a big company86
- 47%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration most often go to Lockheed Martin, Google and Microsoft. Of them, 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 7m
Not NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 331 people on a map of 67,181, No. 69 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 3310.5% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 268% of the people here
- Moved on
- 30592% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 7mmiddle half 3m to 1y 9m
Put NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Boeing. Most leave for Lockheed Martin (4% of recorded departures).
17 of 184 recorded arrivals shown, 167 more from 162 other companies64 of 303 recorded departures shown, 239 more to 196 other companies
How long people stay
62%<1y
17%1-2y
12%2-4y
8%4-7y
2%7y+
191 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
8712
5613
11914
9915
221716
312717
262218
464319
383220
282621
413622
353323
121924
121525
4426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 328 joined, 305 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 142 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern31
- Software Engineer22
- Intern13
- Research Intern11
- Senior Software Engineer7
- Data Science Intern6
- Summer Intern6
- Machine Learning Intern5
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 40% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 14%Exceptional or strong20 people
- 30%Solid42 people
- 39%Emerging56 people
- 17%Unproven24 people
142 of the 331 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
20 of the 142 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 14%. 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.
39%Titles that rose79 of 203 classified people
- 39%Rose79 people
- 54%Stayed level110 people
- 7%Fell14 people
203 of the 331 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
- Georgia Tech15.9%
- Stanford7.0%
- UC Berkeley7.0%
- MIT5.8%
- University of Maryland5.8%
- Harvard3.1%
- Cornell2.8%
- UT Austin2.8%
The 8 most listed schools among the 327 people here with a school on file.
52 of the 327 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 23 list Stanford and 23 list UC Berkeley. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
24%have a public GitHub account on their profile
81 of the 331 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
31% of the people who have worked at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Everyone on the map
- 31%SF Bay Area101 · map 41%
- 24%Washington DC79 · map 13%
- 11%New York37 · map 18%
- 5%Los Angeles18 · map 5%
- 5%Seattle17 · map 5%
- 2%Austin6 · map 0.8%
- 2%Boston5 · map 2%
- 2%Houston5 · map 0.2%
- 19%Somewhere else63
All 331 people who worked at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration 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 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration: 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 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 331 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration: 26 are there now, 305 have moved on.
- Most leave for Lockheed Martin: 12 people, 4% of recorded departures. Then Google and Microsoft.
- Most arrive from Boeing: 4 people. Then NASA Ames Research Center and Amazon.
- Median tenure at NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration: 7m, middle half 3m to 1y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 31% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 142 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 52 of the 327 people here with one on file (15.9%). Then Stanford (23).
- 31% of the 331 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.
- 24% of the 331 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 79 rose, 110 stayed level, 14 fell, out of the 203 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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