After The Aerospace
- 26%Joined a startup24
- 32%Joined a big company30
- 42%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave The Aerospace most often go to Northrop Grumman, Meta and Amazon. Of them, 26% go somewhere small. The median tenure is 3y
Not The Aerospace's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 106 people on a map of 67,181, No. 220 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1060.2% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 88% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9892% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 3ymiddle half 1y 1m to 4y 9m
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Northrop Grumman. Most leave for Northrop Grumman (8% of recorded departures).
7 of 74 recorded arrivals shown, 67 more from 63 other companies15 of 99 recorded departures shown, 84 more to 76 other companies
How long people stay
22%<1y
16%1-2y
33%2-4y
22%4-7y
7%7y+
58 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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4313
9514
3315
5<316
121117
16918
131019
171620
81021
91222
7623
7424
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 114 joined, 107 left.
Caliber
78mediantop 10%87
0Eng Scorer caliber, 49 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer Intern20
- Software Engineer9
- Engineering Specialist6
- Senior Member of Technical Staff6
- Member of Technical Staff5
- Technical Intern5
- Data Scientist4
- Intern4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 32% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 12%Strong6 people
- 33%Solid16 people
- 45%Emerging22 people
- 10%Unproven5 people
49 of the 106 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
6 of the 49 people here with a read sit in exceptional or strong, the top two of the five tiers, 12%. 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.
43%Titles that rose37 of 87 classified people
- 43%Rose37 people
- 45%Stayed level39 people
- 13%Fell11 people
87 of the 106 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 Tech17.0%
- MIT7.6%
- UCLA7.6%
- USC7.6%
- UC Berkeley6.6%
- University of Maryland6.6%
- Caltech5.7%
- Stanford4.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 106 people here with a school on file.
18 of the 106 people here with a school on file list Georgia Tech, 8 list MIT and 8 list UCLA. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
28%have a public GitHub account on their profile
30 of the 106 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
28% of the people who have worked at The Aerospace and list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% of everyone on the map.
The Aerospace
Everyone on the map
- 28%Washington DC30 · map 13%
- 22%SF Bay Area23 · map 41%
- 19%Los Angeles20 · map 5%
- 10%New York11 · map 18%
- 4%Atlanta4 · map 1%
- 3%Boston3 · map 2%
- 3%San Diego3 · map 0.5%
- 3%Seattle3 · map 5%
- 8%Somewhere else9
All 106 people who worked at The Aerospace 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 The Aerospace: 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 The Aerospace, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 106 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at The Aerospace: 8 are there now, 98 have moved on.
- Most leave for Northrop Grumman: 8 people, 8% of recorded departures. Then Meta and Amazon.
- Most arrive from Northrop Grumman: 4 people. Then Johnson Space Center.
- Median tenure at The Aerospace: 3y, middle half 1y 1m to 4y 9m.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after The Aerospace, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 26% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 32% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Median Eng Scorer caliber here: 78 on the 0 to 99 scale, across 49 scored people.
- Most common title held here: Software Engineer Intern, then Software Engineer.
- Top school: Georgia Tech, listed by 18 of the 106 people here with one on file (17.0%). Then MIT (8).
- 28% of the 106 people here who list a location live in Washington DC today, against 13% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 28% of the 106 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
- 37 rose, 39 stayed level, 11 fell, out of the 87 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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