14-year-old Kairan Quazi has recently joined SpaceX as a software engineer, who passed its “technically challenging” and “fun” interview, impressing the company with his exceptional performance in their rigorous and enjoyable interview process.
- In a remarkable move, SpaceX has recently recruited a young prodigy, Kairan Quazi, to join its Starlink division as a software engineer.
- At the age of 14, Kairan is set to graduate from Santa Clara University in California later this month.
- This achievement at such a tender age highlights Kairan’s exceptional talent and dedication to his field.
- SpaceX’s decision to hire Kairan demonstrates the company’s commitment to recognizing and nurturing exceptional individuals, regardless of their age.
In a LinkedIn post on Thursday, Kairan Quazi expressed his excitement about joining SpaceX as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team, hailing it as the most incredible company on the planet.
He said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday: “I will be joining the coolest company on the planet.
He emphasized how unique SpaceX is, as it recognized his capabilities and didn’t rely on his age as an arbitrary measure of maturity and ability.
According to the Seattle Times, this announcement coincided with Kairan’s graduation from the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University, making him the youngest person ever to achieve this milestone.
As he prepares to begin his work at SpaceX’s Redmond, Washington location, Kairan, along with his mother, plans to relocate from Pleasanton, California.
Kairan Quazi’s extraordinary journey began at an early age when he showcased exceptional linguistic abilities, speaking in complete sentences by the age of two.
Even during his kindergarten years, he fascinated his peers and teachers by sharing news stories he had heard on the radio, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
Recognizing that his academic potential surpassed the challenges offered by his regular school curriculum, Kairan’s parents took the initiative to enroll him in a community college in California when he was just nine years old, as stated in the report.
This step allowed him to access more advanced and stimulating educational opportunities.
“I felt like I was learning at the level that I was meant to learn,” he told the LA Times.
That same year he was placed in the 99.9th percentile of the general population in an IQ test, his family told BrainGain magazine.
Quazi landed an internship as an AI research co-op fellow at Intel Labs a few months later and by the age of 11, he transferred to Santa Clara University to study computer science and engineering.
Last year he spent four months as a machine learning intern at cyber intelligence firm Blackbird.AI, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He helped design an “anomaly detection statistical learning pipeline” to flag if social media content has been manipulated, according to his profile.
Quazi told ABC7 News: “I think there’s a conventional mindset that I’m missing out on childhood, but I don’t think that’s true. I think, again, that mindset would have me graduating middle school now.”
It appears he’s already achieved one ambition by landing the Starlink job.
“It is my dream to have a career tackling challenging issues and effecting radical innovation in service of the common good,” he wrote on his LinkedIn biography.
Starlink is SpaceX’s satellite internet service and started operating in January in Nigeria – its first African market.
Starlink did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.
