After Nuro
- 8%Founded something12
- 20%Joined a startup31
- 26%Joined a big company40
- 46%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Nuro most often go to Meta, Windsurf and Applied Intuition. Of them, 8% found something next and 20% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 1m
Not Nuro's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 204 people on a map of 67,181, No. 118 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2040.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4824% of the people here
- Moved on
- 15676% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 1mmiddle half 1y to 3y 10m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Meta (9% of recorded departures).
76 of 199 recorded arrivals shown, 123 more from 113 other companies61 of 158 recorded departures shown, 97 more to 78 other companies
The Nuro mafia
12 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 8% of those who moved on, half of them within a month of leaving. The bars cover the ’21 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
23%<1y
23%1-2y
32%2-4y
22%4-7y
0%7y+
173 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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15<318
20419
33920
502221
555022
84323
102524
15925
8426
joined left2026 is a partial year
2017 to 2026: 215 joined, 168 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%95
0Eng Scorer caliber, 116 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer102
- Software Engineer Intern35
- Senior Software Engineer26
- Tech Lead Manager14
- Staff Software Engineer9
- Tech Lead9
- Machine Learning Engineer7
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 9%Exceptional11 people
- 26%Strong30 people
- 40%Solid46 people
- 19%Emerging22 people
- 6%Unproven7 people
116 of the 204 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
41 of the 116 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 35%. 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.
44%Titles that rose69 of 158 classified people
- 44%Rose69 people
- 53%Stayed level84 people
- 3%Fell5 people
158 of the 204 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 Berkeley15.8%
- Stanford12.3%
- Carnegie Mellon8.4%
- UIUC7.4%
- MIT6.4%
- Georgia Tech5.9%
- Princeton4.9%
- UC San Diego4.9%
The 8 most listed schools among the 203 people here with a school on file.
32 of the 203 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 25 list Stanford and 17 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
36%have a public GitHub account on their profile
73 of the 204 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
84% of the people who have worked at Nuro and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Nuro
Everyone on the map
- 84%SF Bay Area172 · map 41%
- 11%New York23 · map 18%
- 4%Somewhere else9
All 204 people who worked at Nuro 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 Nuro: 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 Nuro, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 204 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Nuro: 48 are there now, 156 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 14 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Windsurf and Applied Intuition.
- Most arrive from Google: 16 people. Then Amazon and Meta.
- Median tenure at Nuro: 2y 1m, middle half 1y to 3y 10m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Nuro, 8% went to a founder title next, 20% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 26% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 116 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 32 of the 203 people here with one on file (15.8%). Then Stanford (25).
- 84% of the 204 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.
- 36% of the 204 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 69 rose, 84 stayed level, 5 fell, out of the 158 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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