Carnegie Mellon University

Our 2021 Graduates

Employment Destinations by Region

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Destination Outcomes

Destination outcomes

Placement of 2021 Ph.D. Graduates

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Job Title

City

State/Country

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Researcher Bethesda

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Source: Post-graduation data compiled from graduating Physics Doctorate students. 

Note: Some recent graduates chose not to provide employer, job title, salary, and/or graduate school information in their response. This information includes all full-time salaries reported with the exception of internships, military service, or those positions outside the U.S.

Placement Information for Prior Years

2020 Graduates

  • Machine Learning Engineer, Cisco, San Jose, CA
  • LTD Process Engineer, Intel Corporation (2), Santa Clara, CA
  • Quantitative Researcher (Finance), Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
  • Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 
  • Research Scientist, PlusAI, San Jose, CA
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, State University of New York Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Astrophysics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2019 Graduates

  • Data Scientist, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta, GA
  • Quantitative Researcher, Citadel, Chicago, IL
  • Data Scientist, General Electric, Boston, MA
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Universite Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2018 Graduates

  • Quantitative Researcher, Acceletrade, Bengaluru, India
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Assistant Vice President, Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard University, Boston, MA
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
  • Senior Imaging Scientist, Intel, Santa Clara, California
  • Process Engineer, Intel, Santa Clara, California
  • Interconnect Integration and Development Engineer, Intel, Santa Clara, California
  • Quantitative Research Associate, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
  • Data Scientist, Uber, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of Bologna, Bolonga, Italy
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  • Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 Graduates

  • Computer Vision Engineer, Autel Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • Decision Support Analyst, Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
  • Scientist, Nokomis, Charleroi, PA
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Post Doc, Royal Observatory, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • Quantitative Researcher and Developer, ITG, Boston, MA
  • Scientist, Nokomis, Inc., Charleroi, PA
  • Quantitative Researcher, Citadel LLC, Chicago, IL
  • Machine Learning Engineer, Qeexo, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Material Data Scientist, Toyota, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Data Scientist, Neal Analytics, Seattle, WA
  • Research Scientist, Systems Engineering Group, Inc., Columbia, MD
  • Post Doc, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
  • Chief Technical Officer, Hamiltonian Group, Washington D.C.
  • Post Doc, Harvard SEAS, Cambridge, MA
  • Software Developer, Epic, Verona, WI

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Engineering Physicist, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, LLC, Kanagawa, Japan
  • Proprietary Trader, T3 Trading Group, New York, NY
  • Post Doc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Post Doc, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
  • Post Doc, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • Data Analyst, CGG, Houston, TX
  • Post Doc, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Researcher, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Pathum Thani, Thailand
  • Software Engineer, Intel, Phoenix, AZ
  • Post Doc, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, South Africa
  • Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Engineer, Quest Link, San Diego, CA
  • Assistant Professor, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
  • Data Scientist, Drawbridge Inc., San Mateo, CA
  • Post Doc, Duke University, Durham, NC
  • Senior Data Science Engineer, Castlight Health, San Francisco, CA
  • Systems Engineer, Data Science Automation Inc., McMurray, PA
  • Post Doc, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
  • Quantitative Analyst, WorldQuant LLC, Old Greenwich, CT
  • Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Post Doc, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
  • Post Doc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Post Doc, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Material Scientist, RJ Lee Group, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Process Engineer, Lam Research, Fremont, CA
  • Post Doc, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • Post Doc, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Post Doc, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Post Doc, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Post Doc, Rice University, Houston, TX
  • Post Doc, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Post Doc, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
  • Post Doc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Post Doc, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
  • Post Doc, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
  • Research Scientist, Schlumberger, Houston, TX
  • Research Scientist, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA
  • Sr. Engineer, Intel, Portland, OR
  • Technology Associate, Thomson Reuters, New York, NY
  • Sr. Engineer, Intel, Portland, OR
  • Research Scientist, Nokomis Inc., Charleroi, PA
  • Post Doc, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
  • Post Doc, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Post Doc, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Post Doc, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
  • Post Doc, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
  • Post Doc, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
  • Engineer, Intel, Portland, OR
  • Post Doc, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
  • Post Doc, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
  • Post Doc, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Sr. Engineer, Covidien Inc., Mansfield, MA