The end-to-end workflow
Run these eight prompts in order in a single conversation. Each one builds on the search and candidate context established by the previous prompt.Prepare for intake and market analysis
I need to hire a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for an AI agents team. The person should have production LLM experience, strong Python, distributed systems depth, and ideally search, ranking, or recommendation systems experience.
Before we search for candidates, help me prepare for intake. Break down the role, identify must-haves vs nice-to-haves, suggest title variants, recommend target companies, and compare the talent market across Seattle, Bay Area, New York, and Toronto. Do not show candidates yet.
Run the search
Now run the SeekOut search for this role. Focus on Staff-level ML Engineers, AI Infrastructure Engineers, Applied ML Engineers, and similar titles. Prioritize candidates in Seattle or the Bay Area, but include remote-friendly candidates if they are very strong. Look for production LLM systems, Python, distributed systems, search, ranking, recommendations, or agent infrastructure experience. Show me the top candidates and explain the match signals.
Evaluate and rank the strongest fits
Evaluate the top candidates against the role. Rank them by fit and give me clear reasoning for each one. For every candidate, explain: why they are a strong fit; what evidence supports the match; any concerns or gaps; and what I should ask them in a first conversation. Give me a hiring-manager-ready shortlist.
Add the top 25 to a workspace
Add the top 25 candidates to a new SeekOut workspace called “Staff ML Engineer - AI Agents.” Use the current search and candidate ranking. After adding them, give me the workspace link so I can review the shortlist and search directly in SeekOut.
Fetch contact details
Fetch available contact details for the top 25 candidates in the “Staff ML Engineer - AI Agents” workspace. Before using credits, summarize how many candidates you will retrieve contact details for and ask me to confirm.
Draft personalized outreach for the top 10
Help me draft personalized outreach for the top 10 candidates. For each candidate, write a short email that references something specific from their background, explains why this AI agents role may be interesting, and sounds like a real recruiter wrote it. Avoid generic AI language. Keep each message concise and easy to personalize.
Expand the pool at the same bar
Show me how to expand this candidate pool without lowering the bar. Suggest alternate titles, adjacent skills, feeder companies, nearby locations, remote markets, and different candidate backgrounds we may be missing. Then recommend the best 3 expansion strategies and explain the tradeoffs.
Rediscover candidates in your ATS
Now search our ATS for candidates who could fit this Staff ML Engineer role. Look for past applicants, silver medalists, or candidates already in our ATS with ML infrastructure, LLM, Python, distributed systems, search, ranking, or recommendation systems experience. Prioritize candidates who reached later stages, were rejected for timing or non-skill reasons, or now appear stronger based on updated experience. Give me a ranked list of rediscovery candidates and explain why each one is worth revisiting.
Recruiter productivity
Turn vague hiring intent into a sourcing plan
I need to hire a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for our AI agents team. They need deep Python, LLM application experience, production ML systems, and ideally experience with search, ranking, or recommendation systems. We prefer Seattle or Bay Area, but we can consider remote. Build the sourcing strategy, identify title variants, must-have and nice-to-have criteria, target companies, run the search, verify the candidate fit, and give me the first 10 strongest candidates with reasons.
Find hidden AI talent across public, GitHub, and academic signals
Find rising-star AI infrastructure engineers who have evidence across GitHub, academic work, or public profiles. Focus on people with LLM systems, retrieval, evals, distributed inference, or agent infrastructure experience. Search across all relevant SeekOut verticals, dedupe the results, and rank candidates by evidence strength, not just title.
Find more people like this candidate
I like this candidate profile because they have startup experience, strong backend systems depth, and recent LLM product work. Reverse-engineer what makes them a strong fit, then find 15 similar candidates. Avoid clones from the same company unless they are exceptional.
Calibrate from hiring-manager feedback
Here is my feedback on the slate: candidate 1 is too enterprise SaaS, candidate 2 is great because of hands-on infra depth, candidate 3 is too research-heavy, and candidate 4 is close but too junior. Refine the search and bring me a better slate of 10 candidates.
Build a hiring-manager-ready shortlist
Build a ranked shortlist of the top 5 candidates for this role. For each person, include why they fit, what evidence supports the match, concerns or gaps, suggested interview focus areas, and a one-line hiring manager summary.
Draft personalized outreach after discovery
For the top 5 candidates in this slate, draft personalized outreach. Make each message specific to their background, avoid generic AI-sounding language, and give me one short LinkedIn version and one email version per person.
Talent market and leadership intelligence
Build a competitive talent map
Map the AI platform and applied ML talent at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, and Databricks. I want to understand titles, seniority, skills, geographic distribution, likely feeder companies, and which candidate segments are most reachable for a startup.
Compare markets before opening a req
Compare Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and London for Staff-level ML infrastructure engineers with Python, distributed systems, and LLM production experience. Show talent pool size, top employers, common titles, skill concentration, and which market gives us the best odds.
Discover academic and industry experts
Find academic and industry experts in AI evaluation, LLM benchmarking, and agent reliability. Prioritize people with publications, conference signals, or strong research depth. Give me a ranked expert map and identify who might be reachable for an industry role.
Analyze bench depth
Analyze our bench depth for three critical roles: Principal ML Engineer, Staff Backend Engineer, and Product Manager for AI Recruiting. Show who internally has overlapping skills, where we have gaps, and which roles are most exposed if someone leaves.
Take a pipeline health snapshot
Give me a pipeline overview for our active engineering reqs. Break down candidates by stage, recruiter, rejection reason, and timeline. Highlight bottlenecks, stale stages, and where we should intervene this week.
Expand sourcing inclusively
Analyze this talent pool for diversity and representation signals. Then suggest ways to broaden the search without lowering the bar: alternate titles, adjacent companies, schools, geographies, and non-obvious candidate backgrounds.
Run a compensation and market reality check
For this Senior Product Manager, AI Recruiting role in Bellevue, give me compensation context and market difficulty. Compare Bellevue, San Francisco, New York, and remote. Tell me whether our likely range is competitive and where we may struggle.
Power filters and vertical search
Source federal-cleared sales talent
Find Federal Account Executives in the DC metro area with security clearance signals, experience selling into federal civilian or defense agencies, and prior work at defense contractors or federal SaaS vendors. Show me the best candidates and explain which clearance or federal-sales signals you found.
Search for healthcare specialists
Find cardiologists licensed in California who have experience with heart failure or electrophysiology and are affiliated with major hospital systems. Prioritize people in the Bay Area or Los Angeles, but show me how much the pool expands statewide.
Search nursing talent with licensing constraints
Find nurse practitioners in Texas with emergency medicine or urgent care experience. Include license-state signals, specialties, likely current employers, and broaden the search carefully if the pool is too small.
Agentic execution
Redeploy internal talent
Search our internal talent for people who could move into an AI solutions engineering role. Look for employees with customer-facing experience, Python or ML exposure, strong product judgment, and recruiting-domain knowledge. Group them by readiness: ready now, ready with training, and long-shot.
Rediscover silver medalists in the ATS
Search our ATS for past candidates who could fit a Senior Backend Engineer role today. Focus on people who reached onsite or final stages, were rejected for timing or compensation reasons, and now have more relevant experience. Rank the best rediscovery candidates.
Run a contact and export workflow
For the top 20 candidates, retrieve available emails, add them to a workspace called “Staff ML Infra Q3,” and prepare them for export to our ATS. Before using credits or exporting, summarize what will happen and ask for confirmation.
Run the full workflow in one request
We need to hire a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for an AI recruiting agents team. The person needs production LLM experience, Python, distributed systems, search/ranking/recommendation experience, and strong product instincts. Seattle or Bay Area preferred, remote acceptable. Start by turning this into a sourcing strategy. Then compare Seattle, Bay Area, New York, and Toronto. Search public, GitHub, and academic sources. Build a ranked shortlist of 10 candidates with evidence. Identify which 5 I should contact first, draft personalized outreach, create a workspace, and prepare the candidates for ATS export after I approve.
Related
- Prompting tips — how to structure and refine your own requests
- Recruiting workflows — what SeekOut MCP can do, by task
- Work with candidates — credit usage and write effects for the action prompts above