Elon Musk hires 14-year-old 'genius' scientist to build SpaceX rockets - & his parents knew he was s

TECH billionaire Elon Musk has hired a 14-year-old soon-to-be college graduate as a SpaceX engineer.

Kairan Quazi's parents were shocked when they realized they had a prodigy on their hands - the boy was only two years old.

At age 11, Quazi, who has been compared to the fictional brainiac Young Sheldon, enrolled at Santa Clara University in California.

Quazi will graduate with a degree in computer science and engineering on June 17.

He already has a software engineering job lined up on Space X's Starlink team, which starts next month.

“I’m really excited for this new chapter of my life,” Kairan told the Seattle Times.

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Kairan will be moving from Pleasanton, California to Washington state with his mom, Jullia, in July where he will work with the Starlink team in Redmond.

The new SpaceX recruit started to show signs of intelligence just a few months after he was born.

Jullia recalled baby Kairan's intense temperament, for example, if she was reading to him and stopped, he would lose his temper and could only be calm down by listening to NPR.

By the age of two, Kairan was using full sentences and his doctors suggested that he start preschool immediately with his high level of intellectual and emotional intelligence.

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On his first day of school, Kairan started protesting for the Arab Spring uprising, which was making waves across the world at the time.

“He got up and declared that school was boring. And then, he got all of his friends in the classroom to start marching, chanting: Free Egypt, democracy now,” Jullia told the outlet.

“He was 2. We were dumbfounded.”

Kairan has an IQ above the 99.9th percentile of the general population.

“I think by third grade, it became painfully obvious to my teachers, parents, and pediatrician that mainstream education wasn’t a great fit for my exponential learning abilities,” Kairan said.

So, at the age of 10, Kairan enrolled at Las Positas, a community college in Livermore, California, and got an internship at Intel Labs as an AI research co-op fellow.

He transferred to Santa Clara University by the age of 11 and now at 14 years old, Kairan said his time in college has been the happiest years of his life.

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