Kairan Quazi, 14, has been by Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX to join its satellite-internet service division Starlink, as a software engineer; after he reportedly passed its "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," Quazi recently wrote in a LinkedIn post. "One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability."
The young genius is set to graduate this month from Santa Clara University in California; and is expected to become the youngest person to graduate from the university.
By the age of 2, Quazi was reported to be able to speak in complete sentences. By kindergarten, he was telling other kids and teachers about news stories he'd heard on the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The kid's parents helped him enroll at a community college in California at age 9, after finding that his schoolwork wasn't challenging enough in the third grade. "I felt like I was learning at the level that I was meant to learn," Quazi reportedly said. That same year he was placed in the 99.9th percentile in an IQ test, according to his family.
A few months later, Quazi landed an internship as an artificial-intelligence research fellow at Intel Labs. And by age 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 the cyber-intelligence firm Blackbird.AI, according to his LinkedIn profile. He helped design an "anomaly detection statistical learning pipeline" to flag social-media content that had been manipulated.
"I think there's a conventional mindset that I'm missing out on childhood, but I don't think that's true," Quazi told ABC7 News. "I think, again, that mindset would have me graduating middle school now."
Quazi and his mother are reportedly planning to move from Pleasanton, California, so he can start working at SpaceX in Redmond, Washington.
"It is my dream to have a career tackling challenging issues and effecting radical innovation in service of the common good," the 14-yer-old wrote in his LinkedIn biography.