RPO Recruiting
Embedded recruiting partner. A full-stack hiring engine on-demand with flexible monthly engagements.
- Sourcing & screening pipelines
- Scheduling and candidate experience
- Offer management & closing
- Live market intel & comp data
AI-native recruiting & consulting
AI talent. Forged for startups.
Embedded recruiting, AI-native sourcing, and the strategic muscle to build your AI org — led by a recruiter with 20+ years in tech and 3 at the frontier of AI.
- 20+yrs in tech recruiting
- 3 yrsAI-native
- Startupfocused
- US +global
Services
Four ways we build your AI bench.
From embedded recruiting to AI strategy — choose the engagement that fits where your team is today. Every engagement is founder-led.
Contract & Full-Time Remote Staff
Vetted contractors and full-time remote talent — ML engineers, applied scientists, founding engineers, and AI-savvy GTM hires.
- ML / applied scientists / LLM engineers
- AI product managers & founding engineers
- AI-savvy sales, design, and ops
- US & global, remote-first
AI Recruiting Strategy
Build the recruiting plan. ICPs, comp benchmarks, and interview loops calibrated for AI talent.
- ICP definition for AI roles
- Comp benchmarks & offer strategy
- Sourcing playbooks & interview loops
- Employer brand & ATS setup
AI Consulting & Solutions
Advisory on integrating AI into the business — from org design to vendor selection, including applying AI to recruiting ops itself.
- Org design for AI teams
- Build-vs-buy frameworks
- Vendor & tooling selection
- AI applied to recruiting ops
Why Prometheus Prime
Built for the speed and judgment startups need.
Most recruiting firms treat AI like any other vertical. We don't. Prometheus Prime is built around how AI startups actually hire — and how AI is changing recruiting itself.
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Embedded, not transactional
We sit inside your hiring process as a partner — owning the pipeline, not throwing résumés over the wall.
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AI-native sourcing
Modern tooling, judgment, and a sourcing model designed for the AI talent market — not retrofitted from a 2015 playbook.
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Startup speed
Days, not quarters. Engagements scale up or down with your runway and roadmap — no minimums, no bloat.
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Founder-led
Every engagement is led by Dav — not handed off to a junior recruiter or an offshore team. You get the principal, every call.
Approach
Four steps from kickoff to scale.
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Discover
Map the team, the roadmap, and the AI roles you actually need to win.
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Design
Calibrate ICPs, comp, interview loops, and a sourcing plan that ships.
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Deliver
Run the pipeline end-to-end — sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing.
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Scale
Hand off a repeatable hiring engine your team can run without us.
Roles we recruit
The full stack of AI hiring.
Across model, product, and go-to-market — wherever AI fluency matters.
- ML Engineers
- Applied Scientists
- AI/ML Researchers
- LLM Engineers
- MLOps
- AI Product Managers
- Founding Engineers
- Data Engineers
- AI-savvy Designers
- AI Sales Engineers
- Head of AI
What founders say
Trusted by the people building what's next.
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Dav embedded with us for ninety days and rebuilt our entire AI hiring engine. We closed our first two ML hires inside of a month — both of whom are now technical leads. He operates like a founder, not a recruiter.
Founder & CEO Seed-stage AI infrastructure startup -
The difference is judgment. Dav has seen twenty years of tech hiring cycles, so he knows which signals matter for AI talent and which don't. We stopped wasting interview loops on the wrong profiles almost immediately.
Head of Talent Series A applied-AI company -
We came to Prometheus Prime for one founding engineer and walked away with a full recruiting playbook — ICP, comp bands, interview rubrics, the works. It paid for itself before the first offer letter went out.
Technical Co-founder Pre-seed AI agents startup
About
Twenty years in tech recruiting.
Three at the frontier of AI.
Dav Liles is the founder of Prometheus Prime Corp. With over 20 years building technology teams and 3 years at the frontier of AI recruiting and AI solutions, Dav partners with startup founders to build the teams that will define the next decade of AI.
- 20+ yrs
- Technology recruiting
- 3 yrs
- AI-native focus
- Founder-led
- Every engagement
- US + global
- Remote-first
Contact
Let's build your AI team.
A 30-minute discovery call: what you're trying to hire or build, where you are today, and how we'd help. No pitch decks.
- Email dav@proprimecorp.com
- LinkedIn Coming soon
- Based United States · Working globally