DON'T MISS: Test Tracks For Elon Musk's Hyperloop: Now There Are Three! BamBrogan said Hyperloop Technologies plans to go on a hiring spree, and believes Detroit auto-industry veterans will make good recruits, according to Automotive News. The company currently has about 140 engineers, he said, but plans to hire 60 to 80 more this year, and and 120 to 200 next year. BamBrogan is a Detroit native who worked as a contract engineer for Chrysler before becoming one of the first 25 engineers at Musk's SpaceX company. Concept drawings for Elon Musk’s 800-mph Hyperloop Musk originally envisioned a Hyperloop running from Los Angeles to San Francisco, but Hyperloop Technologies will start with a 2-mile test track in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The company previously said it would build a track solely for testing ways of propelling capsules, and then build another track to test the complete system. Critics have questioned the practicality of a full-scale Hyperloop, which uses tubes to transport both people and cargo at around 700 mph.