A 14-year-old (Kairan Quazi) is all set to join Elon Musk's space exploration company (SpaceX) software engineer.

Elon Musk’s space explorer company, SpaceX , has a new employee. And it is 14-year-old (Kairan Quazi) prodigy who is super excited to join the ‘coolest company on the planet’ in capacity of a Software Engineer.

If this reminds you of popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper, you are not alone. Now we know that Sheldon hates engineers but the fact that this boy is only 14 and has graduated from college already bears strong resemblance to the character. In the show Young Sheldon as well, Cooper is seen starting college at the age of 11 and graduating at 14.

Now that we have your attention, allow us to tell you more about Musk’s new recruit – the real-life Sheldon Cooper.

14 year old joins Elon Musk’s SpaceX :

14-year-old Santa Clara University graduate Kairan Quazi is all set to begin his job as a software engineer soon. He announced the same via a LinkedIn post and called SpaceX ‘one of the rare companies that did not use his age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability’.

Kairan Quazi LinkedIn post :

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.

Next stop : SpaceX! 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 One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.

My early access to transformational leadership began as a 9-year-old. First, when the administrators of a local community college Las Positas College enrolled a third-grade graduate with no prior acceleration into a fulltime mathematics A.S. degree program. And again, a few months later, when I walked into a meeting with Lama Nachman at Intel Labs and walked out with a generative AI opportunity that would change my career trajectory. Lama recognized that outlier circumstances demanded outlier access to influential mentors and challenging opportunities. 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.

To my mentors and friends - Lama Nachman (Intel Labs), Naushad UzZaman (BLACKBIRD.AI), and Nam Ling and Ahmed Amer (Santa Clara University) - I am forever grateful that you recognized my value, trusted my abilities, and invested in my growth. I am excited to carry these cultural lessons into my career.

A huge thank you to my team at SpaceX for the most transparent, technically challenging, and FUN interview process. Colin Compton, I knew from our first conversation that I found my people. I am packing my rain boots and ready for July!..