Archive · 23 Aug 2025
SpaceX's Youngest Engineer, Kairan Quazi, Transitions to Finance
Kairan Quazi, a very smart young person, is changing jobs.
When he was just 14, he started working at SpaceX, a company that builds rockets and satellites.
He was the youngest engineer there.
After two years, he's decided to try something new and will start working at Citadel Securities, a finance company.
Kairan is super smart – he finished college early and has always been interested in math and computers.
He wants a job that is both challenging and where he can see quick results.
Kairan Quazi, a child prodigy, is leaving SpaceX after two years.
Quazi joined SpaceX at age 14 and worked on the Starlink project.
He will now work as a quantitative developer at Citadel Securities.
Quazi holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science and Engineering.
Doctors recognized his exceptional intellectual and emotional intelligence when he was two.
- Who
- Kairan Quazi, an American-Bangladeshi child prodigy.
- What
- Kairan Quazi, a child prodigy, is leaving SpaceX to work at Citadel Securities.
- When
- After two years at SpaceX.
- Where
- At SpaceX and Citadel Securities.
- Why
- To take on new challenges and expand his skill set in a different high-performance environment.
- Name
- Kairan Quazi
- Age at SpaceX start
- 14
- Previous Employer
- SpaceX
- New Employer
- Citadel Securities
- Field
- Quantitative Developer
- Degrees
- Associate of Science in Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering