DOGE is hiring full-time salaried employees. These are the roles Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aim to fill.
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- The Department of Government Efficiency is hiring "a very small number" of full-time paid employees.
- DOGE said it is recruiting for engineering, HR, IT, and finance roles.
- Job application and compensation details remain sparse.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's Department of Government Efficiency is recruiting for "a very small number" of full-time, salaried positions, according to its X account.
As of early January, the commission is looking for people to fill software engineering, information security engineering, HR, IT, and finance roles.
DOGE is an advisory committee that aims to significantly cut the federal budget — Musk said he wants to slash $2 trillion in spending — and pare back regulations. It exists outside of the federal government and does not have the power to change laws or agencies, though its leaders have already exerted influence over legislative actions, like a recent spending bill.
Applicants for the HR, IT, and finance roles were instructed in an X post — which functions as a job listing — to DM the commission's account their resume and some bullet points about their interest. Those applying for software engineering and information security engineering jobs were told in a separate post to send bullet points "demonstrating exceptional ability" and a phone number over direct message.
In November, Musk said in an X post that employees at DOGE would not be compensated; it remains unclear how many salaried positions are available. That same month, DOGE's X account said in a post that "thousands of Americans" have expressed interest in working at the commission and that applicants must be willing to work more than 80 hours per week. Musk and Ramaswamy would, the post said, look at the top 1% of applicants.
In a recent blog post, a former tech executive, Vinay Hiremath, said that he applied to work at DOGE and had eight calls before getting in and being added to Signal groups.
"I was immediately acquainted with the software, HR, and legal teams and went from 0 to 100 taking meetings and getting shit done," he wrote in the post, noting that he worked at DOGE for four weeks.
Though DOGE is actively recruiting, details about specific employees remain sparse. In early December, President-elect Donald Trump announced that William Joseph McGinley will serve as the commission's counsel. He also announced on Truth Social that Katie Miller, who was deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security during Trump's first term and is married to incoming deputy chief of policy Stephen Miller, will be joining the commission.
Representatives for Musk, Ramaswamy, and Trump did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment, and DOGE's X account did not immediately respond to a direct message.
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