# Head of Talent at Primeintellect

- Company: Primeintellect
- What the company does: Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models on an integrated compute, training, inference, and sandbox stack. Backed by Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.primeintellect.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect/cf9f2534-962f-41b2-b240-89f3e85f5b6d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-head-of-talent/

## About the role

Talent is the single highest-leverage input at Prime Intellect. Every frontier researcher, systems engineer, and operator we hire compounds directly into what the open ecosystem can build. This role owns that compounding.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of technical recruiting experience, with meaningful 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 — not just "technical roles" broadly
- 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 your own searches while building the systems and eventually the team underneath you
- Strong judgment on candidate quality and leveling, willingness to hold a high bar under pressure

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