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SpaceX’s AI division is hiring engineers and physicists as the company prepares for what could be the biggest IPO<\/a> in history. Musk said in a post on X on Thursday that he will personally review all applications that pass “reasonable sanity checks.”<\/p>\n While you don’t need any experience in AI<\/a> to apply, he said, you need to email the company 3 bullet points demonstrating “evidence of exceptional ability.”<\/p>\n “Smart humans figure it out fast,” Musk wrote in the X post. “If you’ve made a very complex thing do useful work, that’s a major plus,” he added.<\/p>\n Musk merged his rocket company with his AI startup, xAI, in February. Previously, xAI had operated as a stand-alone business. <\/p>\n SpaceX is actively hiring world-class engineers\/physicists for SpaceXAI, even if you have zero prior experience in AI. Smart humans figure it out fast.<\/p>\n Please send an email with ~3 bullet points demonstrating evidence of exceptional ability to ai_eng@spacex.com.<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is similar in approach to Musk’s previous hiring calls: straight to the point<\/a> and results-focused.<\/p>\n In January, when hiring to work on Tesla’s AI chip, Musk asked prospective candidates to email three bullet points on the “toughest technical problems” they’ve solved.<\/p>\n SpaceX’s latest hiring push is another sign that the tech talent wars are as hot as ever.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Tesla’s former AI director and OpenAI founding member, Andrej Karpathy, announced he would be moving to Anthropic, a\u00a0major win<\/a>\u00a0for the AI powerhouse.<\/p>\n For xAI, which is now part of SpaceX, Musk said in March that he would be “going through the company interview history and reaching back out to promising candidates<\/a>,” following the departure of several cofounders.<\/p>\n SpaceX filed its S-1 paperwork on Wednesday. Its official IPO is slated for June. It expects to raise between $75 billion and $85 billion, which would value the company<\/a> at between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion.<\/p>\n \n