Head of Talent

Prime Intellect•San Francisco, CA

1d•$250,000 - $300,000•Remote

About The Position

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, a platform designed to provide AI labs with the infrastructure they need for post-training at frontier scale. The platform, called Lab, integrates compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment. Prime Intellect is also developing open-source models trained for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research. The company aims to empower AI companies, enterprises, and research teams by enabling them to own their superintelligence through their own workflows, tools, data, and feedback loops. Prime Intellect has secured $150M in funding from prominent investors and industry leaders.

Requirements

5+ years of technical recruiting experience, with significant time at a frontier AI lab, top AI startup, or elite technical company.
Direct experience recruiting ML researchers, frontier research talent, or elite systems/distributed engineers.
Proven ability to source and close candidates who are not actively looking, against competing offers from top labs.
Track record of personally owning senior and hard-to-fill searches end-to-end.
Comfort operating as a player-coach: running own searches while building systems and eventually a team.
Strong judgment on candidate quality and leveling; willingness to hold a high bar under pressure.
High ownership, direct communication, and appetite for working closely with founders on consequential decisions.
Energized by building a recruiting function from the ground up in a fast-moving environment.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as a founding recruiter, Head of Recruiting, or senior recruiting lead at a fast-growing technical company.
Existing network in the frontier AI research or GPU/ML infrastructure community.
Experience closing candidates against top AI lab offers.
Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and the researchers and engineers who lead them.
Background scaling recruiting operations, tooling, and interview systems at a rapidly growing company.

Responsibilities

Own the highest-priority searches across research, infrastructure, and leadership hires.
Personally run searches and source candidates directly for roles where inbound applications are insufficient.
Close candidates against competing offers from frontier labs, hyperscalers, and top AI startups.
Serve as a trusted partner to founders and hiring managers on candidate strategy, leveling, and offer construction.
Design and run the sourcing motion for frontier research talent and elite systems engineering talent.
Build closing playbooks tailored to technical candidates, focusing on research autonomy, compute access, publication norms, equity, and mission.
Implement tooling, data, and pipeline visibility to support over 60 hires per year while maintaining quality.
Define and enforce the hiring bar across the company during scaling.
Hire and lead a small recruiting team over time, while remaining hands-on.
Build interview architecture, including rubrics, calibration, debriefs, and decision-making processes.
Own recruiting operations, candidate experience, and reporting.
Partner with finance and founders on compensation philosophy, leveling, and equity strategy.