Zelcastalumni map

People who leave Neuralink most often go to a long tail of companies

Not Neuralink's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 23 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,114 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.

People on the map
23Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
There now
1357% of the people here
Moved on
1043% of the people here
Median tenure
–fewer than 20 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few for a median

Put Neuralink 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 Neuralink yet.

After Neuralink

  • 100%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

26%<1y
21%1-2y
32%2-4y
11%4-7y
11%7y+
– median tenure

19 stays with both a start and an end on the record.

Who comes and goes, by year

18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
joined left2026 is a partial year

2018 to 2026: 24 joined, 11 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (10).

Titles held here

  1. Software Engineer6
  2. Software Engineer Intern3

2 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 9% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. Stanford34.8%
  2. MIT13.0%

The 2 most listed schools among the 23 people here with a school on file.

8 of the 23 people here with a school on file list Stanford and 3 list MIT. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.

Public work

Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.

Where they are now

74% of the people who have worked at Neuralink and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.

Neuralink
Everyone on the map
  • 74%SF Bay Area17 · map 41%
  • 26%Somewhere else6

All 23 people who worked at Neuralink 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 Neuralink: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.

Key facts

  • 23 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Neuralink: 13 are there now, 10 have moved on.
  • Of the people with a recorded next move after Neuralink, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and fewer than 3 joined one of 10,000 or more.
  • Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
  • Top school: Stanford, listed by 8 of the 23 people here with one on file (34.8%). Then MIT (3).
  • 74% of the 23 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.

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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