Technical recruiting agency · Deep AI & ML specialization
A founder-led technical recruiting agency with deep AI and ML specialization. Senior engineering hires closed in 3 to 6 weeks — with 86% offer acceptance and retention that lasts. Embedded in your team, no agency handoffs.
Services
From embedded recruiting to org-design advisory — pick the engagement that fits where your team is today. Every engagement is founder-led.
We sit inside your hiring process for 60 to 90 days — owning the pipeline end-to-end as your senior recruiting lead. No agency handoffs, no markup games, no résumé walls.
Drop a senior technical recruiter onto your existing team for the duration of the search. Hourly or monthly. Built for companies with in-house recruiting that need extra arms-and-legs on senior reqs.
Single-role, full-lifecycle search. Vetted senior engineers, founding engineers, AI-savvy GTM. Sourced through networks built over 20 years — not bought from a database.
Fractional Head-of-Talent for founders who need a senior recruiting leader, but aren't ready for full-time headcount. Strategic, hands-off day-to-day, accountable for outcomes.
Comp benchmarks, ICPs, and interview loops calibrated for the technical talent market. Built so your offers win the candidate the first time.
Advisory on org design, build-vs-buy, and applying AI inside the business — including to recruiting ops itself. So the team you hire is the team that scales.
Why Prometheus Prime
Most recruiting firms sell process. We sell outcomes. Here's what that looks like in numbers.
While your competitors are still scheduling phone screens, your founding engineer is shipping code. Days and weeks — not quarters.
Comp, pitch, and candidate are aligned before the offer goes out. You stop wasting offers — and stop losing candidates at the finish line.
Most of the full-time hires we've placed are still with the hiring company years later. Right fit, made on purpose — not luck.
No junior recruiter handoff. No offshore sourcing team. The founder is the one running your search — first call to close.
Approach
Map the team, the roadmap, and the AI roles you actually need to win.
Calibrate ICPs, comp, interview loops, and a sourcing plan that ships.
Run the pipeline end-to-end — sourcing, screening, scheduling, closing.
Hand off a repeatable hiring engine your team can run without us.
Roles we recruit
A technical recruiting agency built for the AI era. Core specialty in AI engineering, ML, research, trust & safety, data operations, and embodied AI — plus the broader engineering roles AI teams sit alongside: backend, infrastructure, platform, security, and engineering leadership. If it's a senior technical hire, we can run it. Candidates: see open roles and apply here.
How we think about comp
Paying top talent based on where they live is old-school thinking. The market sets the price. If you won't pay it, someone else will — and they'll hire your candidate.
One of our clients pushed back on this last year. We made the case: pay for the role and the market the candidate competes in, not the cost of the candidate's apartment. They hired the person at market rate. That hire is now a star performer on their team.
That's the kind of conversation we have with clients before the offer goes out — not after you've lost the candidate. It's why our offer accept rate is 86%.
What founders say
★★★★★Dav worked tirelessly to find me a fit in one of the toughest job markets I've ever known — took the time to understand my skill sets, career goals, and personal situation, and landed me a perfect full-time role.
★★★★★Dav was the senior recruiter responsible for bringing me into Whitepages.com. He did a fantastic job working me through the process and 'selling' me on the virtues of the company. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Dav for senior and executive recruiting.
★★★★★Dav supported our recruiting efforts at 2K as a contracting partner, and he consistently delivered top-tier talent on tight timelines. He took the time to understand exactly what each team needed and brought us candidates who were the right fit technically and culturally. His communication was sharp, his pipeline was strong, and he made the hiring process noticeably smoother. I'd gladly work with him again and recommend him to any team looking for a recruiter who actually gets results.
★★★★★I hired Dav as a contract recruiter during a period of hypergrowth at Mythical Games, when we were scaling aggressively. What stood out to me was how quickly he got up to speed — he understood what we were trying to accomplish as we scaled our Product and Engineering organizations, integrated into the team with very little ramp time, and helped us accelerate our hiring velocity during a particularly busy stretch as a unicorn startup. He was easy to work with, receptive to feedback, and someone I appreciated having on the team.
★★★★★Starting a tech team from the ground up is never an easy thing, unless you have a recruiter like Dav. The process he has makes everything smooth and predictable. He took the time to meet with me to figure out what I wanted with each posting, which led to presenting me with candidates that only met what I was looking for.
★★★★★Dav understands today's challenging marketplace better than anyone and has been a huge asset to Reunion.com and our recruiting efforts. Dav is clearly a significant notch above the majority of his peers.
★★★★★Dav is one of the best recruiters I have had the pleasure of working with. He was a great point of contact when going through the interview and screening process. His ability to continuously find good talent makes him a highly valued recruiting professional. I would highly recommend Dav to anyone seeking recruiting talent.
Track record
FTE and contract placements at companies you recognize — engineering, product, AI, and infrastructure teams built over a 20+ year career.
About · The technical recruiting agency built for AI-era startups
Prometheus Prime is a founder-led technical recruiting agency with deep AI and ML specialization — not an AI recruiting tool, and not a generalist staffing firm. Founded by Dav Liles. Over 100 hires delivered across AI, enterprise, infrastructure, and gaming — FTE and contract. Senior roles closed in weeks, not quarters. With retention that lasts, most placements are still with the hiring company years later.
Contact
A 30-minute call: what you're trying to hire, where you are today, and what it'll take to close it in weeks instead of quarters. No pitch decks.