‘Joining Coolest Company on The Planet’: Meet 14-YO Kairan Quazi Hired By Elon Musk’s SpaceX – Salary, Position and Other Details of the Youngest Santa Clara Graduate
Kairan Quazi SpaceX: Kairan Quazi erolled at Las Positas Community College when he was just nine years old. Quazi has earned a degree in Associate of Science (Mathematics) with the highest distinction. He is also pursuing B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) with several graduate-level electives in machine learning and related courses.
Updated Jun 12, 2023 | 05:30 PM IST
Quazi is all set to join billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX as the company’s youngest software engineer.
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Age is just a number, the saying goes. And, 14-year-old Kairan Quazi has proved it right by achieving some milestones which might only sound like a fictional story for many. Quazi is all set to join billionaire Elon Musk 's SpaceX as the company’s youngest software engineer. He is also the youngest graduate in Santa Clara University’s 172-year history.
Kairan Quazi is all set to join SpaceX – Position
Kairan Quazi will join as a new software engineer at SpaceX's Starlink team. San Francisco-based Quazi is a graduate of Santa Clara University's (SCU) School of Engineering. In a post on Linkedin, Quazi said that he has graduated from Santa Clara University's School of Engineering and is going to work in SpaceX's Starlink team.
“I guess this will be my LinkedIn "I'm excited to announce..." post! I am graduating from Santa Clara University's School of Engineering where I learned that "engineering with a mission" is not a gimmicky tagline. Where a culture of rigor, collaboration, accountability, and impact deeply resonated with the needs of a radically accelerated learner,” Quazi wrote.
Kairan Quazi's LinkedIn post
“Next stop: SpaceX!" Quazi said, who passed the “most transparent, technically challenging, and fun interview process.”
“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 One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability,” he further said in the post.
Kairan Quazi Salary
According to indeed.com, the average salary for a software engineer at US-based SpaceX is $129,507 per year (around Rs 1,06,78,059.36).Kairan Quazi background, education, and other details
According to his LinkedIn bio, the prodigy has hands-on experience in "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) through a multi-year co-op at a Fortune 100 technology company and a summer internship at a VC-backed cyber intelligence start-up". Quazi enrolled at Las Positas Community College when he was just nine years old. Quazi has earned a degree in Associate of Science (Mathematics) with the highest distinction.
He is also pursuing B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) with several graduate-level electives in machine learning and related courses, as per Quazi’s LinkedIn bio. He will graduate alongside nearly 1,600 other students on June 17.
On his achievement, Santa Clara University in a LinkedIn post wrote, “At just 14, Kairan Quazi will be the youngest graduate in Santa Clara's 172-year history. What's next for him? Heading to Washington state with his mom, Julia, to become SpaceX's youngest software engineer.”
“When I first started (at Santa Clara University), people were really intrigued. But after a few days, I think the novelty wore off…and I think a lot of them realized that I’m a pretty normal person.” Quazi said.
At Las Positas, Quazi was also a STEM tutor, and was "one of the most sought-after members of the tutoring staff".
"I went from being a third-grade mutineer to really feeling validated intellectually," Quazi said.
Quazi further said that working on generative AI with Lama Nachman, Director of Intelligent Systems Research Lab at Intel Labs, changed his "career trajectory".
"In a sea of so many no's by Silicon Valley's most vaunted companies, that one leader saying yes...one door opening...changed everything," Quazi wrote in the post.
According to media sources, as quoted by IANS, Quazi's parents said he was speaking in full sentences at two years old.
During third grade, it became very obvious to my teachers, my parents, and my paediatrician that mainstream education wasn't the right path for my accelerated learning ability," Quazi was quoted as saying.
"I think there is a conventional mindset that I'm missing out on in childhood, but I don't think that's true. I think again that mindset would have me graduating middle school now and I don't think it makes sense for someone that's able to take rigorous graduate electives work in a prestigious co-op - I am joining SpaceX as a software engineer. I don't think it makes sense I would be trapped or that anyone whose abilities are beyond that to be trapped," he added as quoted by IANS.
In the LinkedIn post, Quazi thanked his mentors, including from SCU and Intel, who gave him opportunities to see beyond his age. "I am forever grateful that you recognised my value, trusted my abilities, and invested in my growth. I am excited to carry these cultural lessons into my career," he said.
"I am packing my rain boots and ready for July!” he concluded.
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