After NVIDIA
- 3%Founded something19
- 15%Joined a startup84
- 32%Joined a big company174
- 49%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave NVIDIA most often go to Google, Meta and Scale AI. Of them, 3% found something next and 15% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 10m
Not NVIDIA's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 1,102 people on a map of 67,181, No. 16 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1,1021.6% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 54249% of the people here
- Moved on
- 56051% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 10mmiddle half 10m to 3y 2m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Google. Most leave for Google (9% of recorded departures).
247 of 948 recorded arrivals shown, 701 more from 499 other companies223 of 578 recorded departures shown, 355 more to 258 other companies
The NVIDIA mafia
19 of the people who left went straight to a founding role, 3% of those who moved on, half of them the same month they left. The bars cover the ’15 to ’26 classes; earlier founders still count in the total.
How long people stay
29%<1y
23%1-2y
28%2-4y
15%4-7y
5%7y+
841 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
211912
141313
152014
201315
403716
635317
816218
705419
824020
938021
1178822
974023
2459324
1627625
1001726
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 1,220 joined, 705 left.
Caliber
84mediantop 10%94
0Eng Scorer caliber, 421 scored99
there now 83 moved on 85. The people who left score higher than the people still there.
Titles held here
- Software Engineer153
- Software Engineer Intern142
- Senior Software Engineer136
- Machine Learning Engineer44
- AI42
- Research Intern42
- System Software Engineer29
- Senior Systems Software Engineer23
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 12% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 7%Exceptional29 people
- 30%Strong125 people
- 38%Solid161 people
- 22%Emerging92 people
- 3%Unproven14 people
421 of the 1,102 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
154 of the 421 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 37%. 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.
41%Titles that rose233 of 566 classified people
- 41%Rose233 people
- 52%Stayed level296 people
- 7%Fell37 people
566 of the 1,102 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
- Stanford12.0%
- UC Berkeley11.7%
- Carnegie Mellon8.5%
- MIT6.0%
- Georgia Tech5.4%
- UIUC5.3%
- USC3.9%
- Cornell2.5%
The 8 most listed schools among the 1,096 people here with a school on file.
132 of the 1,096 people here with a school on file list Stanford, 128 list UC Berkeley and 93 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
396 of the 1,102 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
69% of the people who have worked at NVIDIA and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
NVIDIA
Everyone on the map
- 69%SF Bay Area764 · map 41%
- 9%New York97 · map 18%
- 3%Seattle38 · map 5%
- 3%Los Angeles28 · map 5%
- 2%Washington DC21 · map 13%
- 1%Boston12 · map 2%
- 1%Denver12 · map 0.8%
- 0.9%Atlanta10 · map 1%
- 11%Somewhere else120
All 1,102 people who worked at NVIDIA 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 NVIDIA: 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 NVIDIA, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 1,102 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at NVIDIA: 542 are there now, 560 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 51 people, 9% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Scale AI.
- Most arrive from Google: 43 people. Then Meta and Accenture.
- Median tenure at NVIDIA: 1y 10m, middle half 10m to 3y 2m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after NVIDIA, 3% went to a founder title next, 15% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 84 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 421 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 132 of the 1,096 people here with one on file (12.0%). Then UC Berkeley (128).
- 69% of the 1,102 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 1,102 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 233 rose, 296 stayed level, 37 fell, out of the 566 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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