Head of Talent
Prime Intellect provides an open superintelligence stack for training, evaluating, deploying, and continuously improving AI agents and models. Its platform combines RL environments, hosted training, inference, GPU compute, secure sandboxes, and open-source research tooling for researchers, startups, and enterprises.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Prime Intellect, Inc.
Prime Intellect operates an integrated AI infrastructure platform spanning Lab, hosted reinforcement-learning training, evaluations, environments, inference, secure sandboxes, and on-demand or reserved GPU compute. It also develops open-source tools including Verifiers, prime-rl, and Prime Agent, supporting workflows from environment creation and model evaluation through post-training and production deployment. The company serves researchers, startups, enterprises, and teams building agentic AI systems, with customer examples including Ramp and Zapier.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own recruiting end-to-end as Prime Intellect scales, personally lead priority searches, build sourcing and closing systems, define interview architecture and compensation frameworks, lead a recruiting team, and manage recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical recruiting experience.
- Experience at a frontier AI lab, top AI startup, or elite technical company.
- Experience recruiting ML researchers, frontier research talent, or systems and distributed engineers.
- Ability to source and close passive candidates against competing offers.
- Experience owning senior and hard-to-fill searches end-to-end.
- Player-coach experience.
- Strong candidate quality and leveling judgment.
- Experience building a recruiting function.
Responsibilities
- Run priority searches across research, infrastructure, and leadership.
- Source candidates through networks, cold outreach, and targeted campaigns.
- Close candidates against competing offers.
- Advise founders and hiring managers on candidate strategy, leveling, and offers.
- Design sourcing for frontier research and systems engineering talent.
- Build closing playbooks and recruiting tooling.
- Establish pipeline visibility and enforce the hiring bar.
- Hire and lead a recruiting team.
- Build interview architecture, rubrics, calibration, and debriefs.
- Own recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting.
- Partner with finance and founders on compensation, leveling, and equity strategy.
Benefits
- $250,000-$300,000+ cash compensation.
- Meaningful equity.
- Flexible work environment.
- Visa sponsorship.
- Relocation support.
- Professional development budget.
- Team off-sites.
- Conference attendance.