Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017) by souprock on Monday May 01, 2017 @11:10PM (#14243679)

Nope. We qualify for an exemption and in fact are required to require citizenship. You can "file a charge" and have about the same luck you'd get over being declined a job working on orbital rockets, stealth fighters, nukes, submarine propellers, etc.

Even HN darling SpaceX requires US citizenship.

The fact that the USA has a law which ensures easy foreign access to American trade secrets is... exactly backwards. In any case, it doesn't apply.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017) by kelseyfrancis on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:54AM (#14244044)

For almost all jobs at SpaceX, only permanent residency (i.e., a green card) is required, because that's what ITAR and EAR require.

But, yes, of course companies have no choice but to exclude non-citizens from jobs that require a security clearance, because getting a clearance requires citizenship.

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