Head of Talent — Frontier AI Recruiting & Sourcing Engine

Prime Intellect; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash compensation

Equity

Flexible work environment

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Professional development budget

Team off-sites

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack and is seeking a Head of Talent to own recruiting end-to-end as the team scales from ~40 to ~100+. You will run the most important searches, source candidates who are not on the market, and close them against offers from leading AI labs.

You will define the sourcing engine, closing playbooks, and compensation frameworks with directly reporting founders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical recruiting experience at frontier AI labs or top AI startups.
• Direct experience recruiting ML researchers, frontier talent, or elite systems engineers.
• Proven ability to source and close non-visible candidates against top offers.
• Strong track record owning senior, hard-to-fill searches end-to-end.
• Player-coach mindset; build systems while running searches.

Responsibilities

• Own the highest-priority searches across research, infrastructure, and leadership hires.
• Source candidates via network, cold outreach and targeted campaigns; close against offers.
• Design and execute the sourcing and closing engine for scalable hiring.
• Lead and scale a recruiting team; define interview rubrics and decision processes.
• Partner with founders on compensation philosophy, leveling, and equity strategy.

Skills

Sourcing

Candidate closing

Talent strategy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack and is seeking a Head of Talent to own recruiting end-to-end as the team scales from ~40 to ~100+. You will run the most important searches, source candidates who are not on the market, and close them against offers from leading AI labs.

You will define the sourcing engine, closing playbooks, and compensation frameworks with directly reporting founders.