After Sandia National Laboratories
- 2%Founded something3
- 22%Joined a startup36
- 29%Joined a big company47
- 48%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Sandia National Laboratories most often go to Google, Amazon and AWS. Of them, 22% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 2y 9m
Not Sandia National Laboratories's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 206 people on a map of 67,181, No. 115 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 2060.3% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 189% of the people here
- Moved on
- 18891% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 2y 9mmiddle half 1y to 4y 5m
Put Sandia National Laboratories side by side with another employer.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Boeing. Most leave for Google (5% of recorded departures).
16 of 113 recorded arrivals shown, 97 more from 88 other companies31 of 168 recorded departures shown, 137 more to 127 other companies
How long people stay
23%<1y
17%1-2y
32%2-4y
18%4-7y
11%7y+
102 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
9512
6513
61014
161015
181916
111017
241418
151019
161520
101821
121522
15823
9824
51725
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 173 joined, 167 left.
Caliber
79mediantop 10%88
0Eng Scorer caliber, 107 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer12
- Research Intern10
- Member of Technical Staff9
- Intern6
- Research & Development Intern6
- Research and Development Intern6
- Software Engineer Intern6
- Research & Development Computer Scientist5
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 36% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 16%Exceptional or strong17 people
- 32%Solid34 people
- 35%Emerging37 people
- 17%Unproven18 people
106 of the 206 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
17 of the 106 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 16%. 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.
42%Titles that rose62 of 148 classified people
- 42%Rose62 people
- 51%Stayed level75 people
- 7%Fell11 people
148 of the 206 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
- Georgia Tech13.3%
- UC Berkeley9.9%
- Stanford8.9%
- UIUC8.4%
- The University of New Mexico7.4%
- UCLA5.9%
- Carnegie Mellon5.4%
- Cornell4.4%
The 8 most listed schools among the 203 people here with a school on file.
27 of the 203 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 20 list UC Berkeley and 18 list Stanford. 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
61 of the 205 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
55% of the people who have worked at Sandia National Laboratories and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Sandia National Laboratories
Everyone on the map
- 55%SF Bay Area113 · map 41%
- 7%Washington DC14 · map 13%
- 5%Albuquerque10
- 4%New York9 · map 18%
- 3%Boston6 · map 2%
- 3%Seattle6 · map 5%
- 2%Austin5 · map 0.8%
- 2%Denver5 · map 0.8%
- 18%Somewhere else37
205 of the 206 people who worked at Sandia National Laboratories list a location, and every share here is over those 205.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at Sandia National Laboratories: 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 Sandia National Laboratories, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 206 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Sandia National Laboratories: 18 are there now, 188 have moved on.
- Most leave for Google: 8 people, 5% of recorded departures. Then Amazon and AWS.
- Most arrive from Boeing: 4 people. Then IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- Median tenure at Sandia National Laboratories: 2y 9m, middle half 1y to 4y 5m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Sandia National Laboratories, 2% went to a founder title next, 22% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 79 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 107 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer, then Research Intern.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 27 of the 203 people here with one on file (13.3%). Then UC Berkeley (20).
- 55% of the 205 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 205 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 62 rose, 75 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 148 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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