Musk, Altman Tapped to Pitch Gov Jobs to Software Engineers
OPM's new US Tech Force wants 1,000 software engineers, and it's rolling out tech billionaires as recruiters.
The US government is pulling out the big guns — literally the richest ones — to staff up its tech ranks. OPM Director Scott Kupor announced that tech billionaires including Elon Musk and Sam Altman will give talks to the newly formed US Tech Force.
The program's goal: recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers to modernize the digital infrastructure of federal agencies.
It's an aggressive play to lure Silicon Valley talent into government work, a sector not exactly known for competitive comp or cutting-edge tech stacks. Whether engineer talks from billionaires who built their empires in the private sector will actually convince developers to take government gigs remains to be seen.
But the pitch is clear — Uncle Sam needs coders, and he's borrowing star power to get them.