Are you looking for your next opportunity?

You may not have to look further as Elon Musk’s DOGE is hiring.

Co-headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE is looking to fill ‘a very small number’ of full-time, salaried positions.

DOGE was created by US President-elect Donald Trump in November last year and whilst it isn’t a federal agency, it does have an initiative tasked with finding ways to slash billions in federal spending.

The group said that it had received thousands of applications from job-seekers in November.

Since its launch, it has drawn a lot of interest with thousands of applications already submitted.

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However, Musk and Ramaswamy have made it clear they’re only reviewing the top 1% of candidates. Those willing to apply must be ‘super high-IQ’ individuals willing to work more than 80 hours on what they call ‘unglamorous cost-cutting.’

If that sounds like your kind of challenge, DOGE might be worth a shot.

In late December, DOGE issued a new call for applicants with human resource, information technology and finance backgrounds.

On Tuesday, the department announced it was adding new roles to its hiring list.

“Recruiting for a very small number of full-time salaried Software Engineers and InfoSec [Information Security] Engineers,” the department said.

The organisation hasn’t been specific as to what qualifications they’re looking for, but interested candidates can apply by sending a message on X (formerly Twitter).

All they need to do is write a direct message to DOGE with a ‘few bullet points demonstrating exceptional ability, and your cell phone number.’

It’s also worth noting that DOGE hasn’t disclosed salary ranges or clarified how these positions will be funded – whether taxpayer money or through private funding.

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DOGE has also not provided any details on the hiring process or workers’ salaries.

Here is a full list of roles DOGE has said it’s hiring for:

Super high-IQ ‘small-government revolutionaries’ to work on ‘unglamorous cost-cutting’

Full-time, salaried software engineers

Information security engineers

Human resource professionals

Information technology professionals

Finance professionals

DOGE has targeted organisations like Planned Parenthood, claiming they receive about $300 million in federal funding each year.

It’s also called out international organisations that receive $1.5 billion in grants.

According to an opinion piece by Musk and Ramaswamy in the Wall Street Journal last year, the duo referred to themselves as ‘outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees’ whose aim is simply to cut costs.

Obviously, DOGE might not be everyone’s dream workplace, but if you’re up for a new challenge and meet the mark, it could be your next hit.

Luke Farritor, one of the few employees at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, rose to fame in the tech world after solving a 2,000-year-old riddle that has stumped every historian and archaeologist so far – and he did it with the power of artificial intelligence.

‘Wonderkids’ in the technology world are certainly not a rare occurrence, as often the best and brightest begin honing their skills from an early age, but young ‘genius’ Luke Farritor separated himself from the rest by achieving something that many had wrestled with for over 2,000 years.

For centuries historians and archaeologists had wrestled with one particular papyrus scroll from the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, which alongside Pompeii was laid to rubble by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

While many aspects of both towns have been miraculously preserved, including a recently discovered bathhouse, this particular scroll was charred enough to make the writing supposedly unreadable – that is until Farritor came along.

Farritor used AI to decipher 2,000-year-old text that had baffled historians (YouTube/University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Using complex AI algorithms, Luke managed to decipher the text upon the blackened scroll, earning himself not only a cash prize of $700,000 but all the fame you’d need to start a burgeoning career in the world of tech, as reported by the Times of India.

Farritor opted to drop out of his course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and instead opt for the Thiel Fellowship which grants young people $100,000 to “build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.”

He also linked up with Elon Musk, friend of Peter Thiel, through an internship at SpaceX, and there’s a strong likelihood that this led to his current role in the White House at the Department of Government Efficiency.

Farritor is one of the few people working at the Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon Musk (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

While it’s unclear what exactly this role would comprise, the broader mission of Musk’s private advisory board is to cut federal funding by $2,000,000,000,000 before the stated expiry date of 2026.

Even Musk himself has admitted that this will be a challenging task, and they have initially begun by targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion funding across all facets of government, and have announced further plans to dismantle the Department of Education.

Controversy has also surrounded reports that Musk and the DOGE team have gained access to confidential information – including social security numbers – of every individual in the country after infiltrating the Treasury’s federal payment system.

As per an announcement from Musk on X, Farritor will also be one of the ‘lucky’ few to be working 120 hour weeks across all seven days in order to complete the department’s necessary tasks, and it has been stated that this is their ‘superpower’ over typical bureaucratic institutions.

An employee at Elon Musk’s DOGE has called it quits after his racist social media posts have come to light.

Musk was appointed as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by President Donald Trump.

While it’s not technically a governmental department, the president revealed that it will act as an outside advisor for federal spending.

Elon Musk is now the head of DOGE (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

DOGE was recently granted full access to the Treasury payment system but now one of the two staffers on the team who were given this access has quit his job.

This was after the White House was questioned about his history of racist social media posts.

These posts included supporting eugenics and the idea of repealing the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

According to a report made by The Wall Street Journal, programmer Marko Elez, 25, had an account on Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

This is where he made controversial posts stating that he was in support of a ‘eugenic immigration policy’ along with other racist remarks.

In one post, Elez wrote: “I would not mind at all if Gaza and Israel were both wiped off the face of the Earth.”

In another, the former DOGE employee encouraged X users to ‘normalize Indian hate’, in reference to the large number of Indian immigrants that work in Silicon Valley’s tech sector.

The White House was quizzed about these posts which led to press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealing that Elez had quit his role.

There have been growing concerns over the level of access Musk’s DOGE has, including the possibility that it may have access to confidential information including social security numbers and Medicare benefits payments.

The employee used Elon Musk’s social media platform X to make the racist posts (Anna Barclay/Getty Images)

Lindsay Owens, who is the executive director of economic think tank Groundwork Collaborative, previously shared her thoughts on the possible routes Musk could go down.

In an op-ed for MSNBC, she said: “Musk could also get his hands on the ‘Do Not Pay’ system that lists individuals or contractors the government has blacklisted, theoretically granting him control over whom the government does business with.

“Government contracts have been central to Musk’s $400 billion net worth; his companies have signed billions of dollars’ worth of government contracts.

According to another report by Reuters, DOGES staff members have taken over the headquarters of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), leaving other employees shut out of the computer system, and have moved sofas onto the fifth floor so workers can sleep on site.

They have also used the access of the OPM systems to offer federal employees a ‘deferred resignation’ program.

This means they would resign from government service but remain on the payroll for six months.

However, the buyout program has been put on pause for now by a federal judge pending a hearing.

Donald Trump seems to have humbled Elon Musk with a blunt message while signing executive orders.

It looks like the new US president has taken the richest man in the world down a peg or two.

This is after it was revealed that Musk had been granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payment system.

President Trump seems to have humbled Elon Musk in a statement to the press (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The Tesla boss was recently appointed as the head of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

While DOGE isn’t actually a governmental department, it has been said that it will act as an outside advisor on federal spending, with Musk claiming that he will make trillions of dollars worth of cuts.

While it’s not yet known what Musk might do with this new power, he has already been making claims about the department on his own social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

The Tesla boss wrote: “The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

“They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

“Not even once.”

Now, it looks like Trump is attempting to bring Musk into line while speaking to press yesterday (February 3).

The president said: “Elon can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval. And we’ll give him the approval where appropriate. Where not appropriate, we won’t.”

However, so far it seems that every demand made by DOGE has been met.

President Trump appointed Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

According to The New York Times, David Lebryk, a top civil servant in the Treasury Department, was removed from his position after refusing to give DOGE access to the department’s payment system.

As a result, it was Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who granted ended up granting Musk access.

Since then, fears have grown that the billionaire could potentially now have access to confidential information from every single taxpayer in the country, including social security numbers and Medicare benefit payments.

It has also been reported that Musk is reccomending that Treasury payment positions are taken up by people appointed by Trump.

Speaking to The Rolling Stone, Nathan Tankus, who is the research director of the Modern Money Network, said: “This is not the attitude of people who are simply trying to make the payment system more ‘efficient’.

“They have a very clear and specific agenda, which involves unilaterally cutting spending, particularly spending they perceive to be going to their ideological foes.”