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How people got jobs at SpaceXAI
What 46 people did before they joined SpaceXAI: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
46
people in our data got there
71%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
18
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from frontier ai labs (43%).
- The most common way in was Business & operations (28% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 71% had a graduate degree before arriving and 18% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 18 years after their first job.
- The most common earlier employer: Cursor (33% had worked there).
How SpaceXAI compares
- People arrived about 5 years later in their careers than at the typical one of the other frontier AI labs (18 vs 13 years since their first job).
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Google DeepMind | 58 | 41% |
| World Labs | 39 | 33% |
| Physical Intelligence | 31 | 32% |
| Sakana AI | 41 | 29% |
| Cohere | 40 | 28% |
| Hugging Face | 34 | 24% |
| Stability AI | 40 | 22% |
| SpaceXAI (this page) | 17 | 18% |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 29 | 17% |
| OpenAI | 41 | 17% |
| Anthropic | 28 | 14% |
| Black Forest Labs | 32 | 12% |
| EleutherAI | 26 | 12% |
| Reflection | 20 | 10% |
| Mistral AI | 36 | 8% |
| Skild AI | 39 | 8% |
| Poolside | 31 | 6% |
| Cognition | 27 | 4% |
| Perplexity | 24 | <1% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| SpaceXAI (this page) | 18 yrs | |
| Anthropic | 15 yrs | |
| Mistral AI | 15 yrs | |
| OpenAI | 14 yrs | |
| Perplexity | 14 yrs | |
| Reflection | 14 yrs | |
| Thinking Machines Lab | 14 yrs | |
| Stability AI | 14 yrs | |
| Poolside | 13 yrs | |
| Cognition | 13 yrs | |
| Cohere | 13 yrs | |
| Black Forest Labs | 10 yrs | |
| Physical Intelligence | 10 yrs | |
| Google DeepMind | 10 yrs | |
| Sakana AI | 9 yrs | |
| Skild AI | 9 yrs | |
| World Labs | 8 yrs | |
| Hugging Face | 8 yrs | |
| EleutherAI | 5 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Business & operations | 13 | 28% |
| Data science & ML | 9 | 20% |
| All other roles | 19 | 41% |
| Software engineering | 5 | 11% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From frontier AI labs | 20 | 43% |
| From other companies | 18 | 39% |
| From Big Tech | 6 | 13% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
Where they worked before
A person can count under more than one employer.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Cursor | 15 | 33% |
Education
Among the 17 of 46 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 5 | 29% |
| Master's | 5 | 29% |
| MBA | 4 | 24% |
| PhD | 3 | 18% |
How much experience they had
Among the 46 of 46 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 years | 1 | 2% |
| 3-5 years | 1 | 2% |
| 5-8 years | 2 | 4% |
| 8-12 years | 8 | 17% |
| 12+ years | 34 | 74% |
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How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.