After National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 17%Joined a startup12
- 30%Joined a big company21
- 53%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave National Science Foundation (NSF) most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 17% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 5m
Not the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 90 people on a map of 67,181, No. 264 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 900.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 56% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8594% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 5mmiddle half 2m to 1y 1m
Put National Science Foundation (NSF) side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for National Science Foundation (NSF) yet.
How long people stay
65%<1y
29%1-2y
5%2-4y
2%4-7y
0%7y+
62 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
2012 to 2026: 80 joined, 78 left.
Caliber
75mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 36 scored99
Titles held here
- Researcher5
- Student Researcher4
- Graduate Research Fellow3
- Research Assistant3
- Undergraduate Research Assistant3
5 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 29% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 14%Strong5 people
- 22%Solid8 people
- 42%Emerging15 people
- 22%Unproven8 people
36 of the 90 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
5 of the 36 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.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
18%Titles that rose6 of 33 classified people
- 18%Rose6 people
- 52%Stayed level17 people
- 30%Fell10 people
33 of the 90 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 Berkeley7.8%
- USC7.8%
- Georgia Tech6.7%
- University of Maryland6.7%
- UCLA4.4%
- University of Virginia4.4%
- NYU3.3%
- Princeton3.3%
The 8 most listed schools among the 90 people here with a school on file.
7 of the 90 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 7 list USC and 6 list Georgia Tech. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
22%have a public GitHub account on their profile
20 of the 90 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
34% of the people who have worked at National Science Foundation (NSF) and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Everyone on the map
- 34%SF Bay Area31 · map 41%
- 18%Washington DC16 · map 13%
- 16%New York14 · map 18%
- 10%Los Angeles9 · map 5%
- 4%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 18%Somewhere else16
All 90 people who worked at National Science Foundation (NSF) 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 National Science Foundation (NSF): 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 National Science Foundation (NSF), at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 90 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked for the National Science Foundation (NSF): 5 are there now, 85 have moved on.
- Median tenure at the National Science Foundation (NSF): 5m, middle half 2m to 1y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after National Science Foundation (NSF), fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 17% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 30% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 75 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 36 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Researcher, then Student Researcher.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 7 of the 90 people here with one on file (7.8%). Then USC (7).
- 34% of the 90 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.
- 22% of the 90 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 6 rose, 17 stayed level, 10 fell, out of the 33 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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