After Rivian
- 5%Founded something4
- 11%Joined a startup9
- 28%Joined a big company24
- 56%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Rivian most often go to Meta, Amazon and Applied Intuition. Of them, 5% found something next and 11% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 1y 8m
Not Rivian's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 125 people on a map of 67,181, No. 190 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1250.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 4032% of the people here
- Moved on
- 8568% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 8mmiddle half 1y to 3y 1m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Tesla. Most leave for Meta (7% of recorded departures).
How long people stay
25%<1y
31%1-2y
25%2-4y
19%4-7y
0%7y+
108 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<317
<3<318
4019
17420
39921
232822
192523
141524
121225
4026
joined left2026 is a partial year
2017 to 2026: 135 joined, 95 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 64 scored99
Titles held here
- Senior Software Engineer27
- Software Engineer22
- Software Engineer Intern18
- Staff Software Engineer16
- Software Engineer II6
- Deep Learning Engineer3
- Machine Learning Intern3
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer3
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 13%Strong8 people
- 31%Solid20 people
- 56%Emerging or unproven36 people
64 of the 125 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
8 of the 64 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 13%. 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.
41%Titles that rose39 of 95 classified people
- 41%Rose39 people
- 47%Stayed level45 people
- 12%Fell11 people
95 of the 125 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 Berkeley11.3%
- Georgia Tech8.1%
- Carnegie Mellon5.7%
- Stanford5.7%
- UC Davis4.8%
- UC Irvine4.0%
- UIUC4.0%
- San Jose State3.2%
The 8 most listed schools among the 124 people here with a school on file.
14 of the 124 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 10 list Georgia Tech and 7 list Carnegie Mellon. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
30%have a public GitHub account on their profile
37 of the 125 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
74% of the people who have worked at Rivian and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Rivian
Everyone on the map
- 74%SF Bay Area93 · map 41%
- 6%Los Angeles7 · map 5%
- 6%Washington DC7 · map 13%
- 4%New York5 · map 18%
- 3%Seattle4 · map 5%
- 2%Atlanta3 · map 1%
- 5%Somewhere else6
All 125 people who worked at Rivian 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 Rivian: 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 Rivian, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 125 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Rivian: 40 are there now, 85 have moved on.
- Most leave for Meta: 6 people, 7% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and Applied Intuition.
- Most arrive from Tesla: 6 people. Then Google and Uber.
- Median tenure at Rivian: 1y 8m, middle half 1y to 3y 1m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Rivian, 5% went to a founder title next, 11% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 28% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 64 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Senior Software Engineer, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 14 of the 124 people here with one on file (11.3%). Then Georgia Tech (10).
- 74% of the 125 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.
- 30% of the 125 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 39 rose, 45 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 95 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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