Elon Musk’s SpaceX hires 14-year-old for ‘dream’ job
- Kairan Quazi, soon to be the youngest person to graduate from Santa Clara University’s school of engineering, will be a software engineer at Starlink
- Quazi enrolled in community college at age nine and placed in the 99.9th percentile of the general population in an IQ test
What is different about Kairan Quazi is that he is just 14 years old.
He said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday: “I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.”
The post came soon before his graduation from Santa Clara University’s school of engineering, becoming the youngest person to do so, the Seattle Times reported. He plans to make the move from Pleasanton, California with his mother to start work at SpaceX in Redmond, Washington, per the report.
Quazi’s extraordinary journey started at the age of two, when he could speak in complete sentences. By kindergarten he was telling other kids and teachers about news stories he had heard on the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times.
After finding that his schoolwork was not challenging enough in the third grade, aged nine, his parents helped him enrol at a community college in California, per the report.
