A person using the handle George Cooper followed on.Similar to Anthonys post, the message read, Im also looking to refer people to DOGE. Efficiency will always be an exceptionally hard, complex problem and I personally believe we need the brightest people in the world to wrestle with that problem. Ive always found Palantirians & ex-Palantirians to be the most exceptional people I know, so who better to confront that challenge. Shoot me a DM (or @Anthony ofc) if youre interested.(Reaction to these messages was, a source tells WIRED, mixed.)According to an online resume, George Cooper graduated from Lehigh University in 2019 and has been employed at Palantir as a forward deployed engineer since May 2024, following another stint at the company in a similar role from 2019 to 2023. He did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Its unclear what role, if any, Jancso currently has within DOGE. But one of Accelerate SFs cofounders, as reported by VentureBeat, is former Waymo software engineer Jordan Wick, who completed undergrad at MIT in 2019 and earned a masters from the school the following year. Wick, according to government records reviewed by WIRED, appears to have a DOGE email account associated with the Executive Office of the President. Two sources tell WIRED that Wick is among the team that has been given access to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) systems and equipment. Wick did not immediately respond to a request from WIRED. Shortly after the email was sent, his online resume was removed.On December 5, 2024, around the same time the messages associated with Jancsos handle were being sent out, a person using the handle Luke Farritor posted a message in a Discord server for SpaceX interns.Hi everyone! Im recruiting SWEs for Doge. Reach out if interested! the message reads. We are looking for skilled software engineers (and ops people) at any career stage who are willing to work for ~6mo in person in DC. Paid. Tons of really ambitious projects in the works. We are going to fix the government!The six-month timeline aligns with the 130 workday limit that special government employees (SGEs) are legally allowed to serve in a single year. Musk himself is currently categorized as an SGE.Luke Farritor, as WIRED first reported, is a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern and Thiel Fellow now working as a DOGE technologist. Politico has reported that he is now listed as an information engineer in an internal directory at the Department of Energy. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Since its establishment by executive order on the first day of Donald Trumps presidency, DOGE has taken over key agencies at the center of the federal government such as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA) and placed operatives in about a dozen agencies with the apparent aim of radically reducing the size of the federal workforce and increasing presidential powers.Its access to sensitive data and systems has placed DOGE at the center of a growing number of legal battles. Early Saturday morning, a federal judge temporarily barred members of the task force from access to records and the Treasury payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows, and ordered records in their possession destroyed immediately. As WIRED has reported, a threat intelligence team at the agency recommended members have access to payment systems revoked and that they be monitored as an insider threat.