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Executive Recruiting Researcher, Principal Engineer Recruiting

Amazon
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/7/2026
Description

Join Amazon's Executive Recruiting team and help us identify and hire the world's most exceptional Principal Engineers. Members of Amazon's Principal Engineering Community are exemplary practitioners and pragmatic visionaries who set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon. This role offers unparalleled visibility, you'll work across all Amazon businesses, advising senior executives on hiring strategy while building relationships with world-renowned technical leaders.

Key job responsibilities

Strategic Search Design

  • Develop robust, multi-channel strategies attracting world-class engineers. Map target companies, engage at conferences, generate referral leads. Build talent networks and tap industry sources for ongoing candidate pools.

Executive Advisory

  • Serve as talent adviser to leaders across Amazon, educating hiring managers about the external Principal Engineer demographic. Provide strategic guidance to executive leadership on top technical talent. Conduct continuous company and talent mapping.

Candidate Development

  • Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement. Perform assessment and screening, present to executive leadership. Conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for technical interviews, coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels.

Market Expertise

  • Serve as expert for engineering recruiting. Contribute to knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools. Learn new domains quickly and craft effective search strategies.

What We're Looking For

  • Research acumen: Learn technical domains quickly, craft effective search strategies, excel at candidate identification, engagement, and creative sourcing
  • Executive presence: Compelling communicator who engages busy executives and renowned engineers, self-assured and quick-thinking
  • Strategic judgment: Think strategically while executing tactically, relentlessly high standards, results-oriented
  • Collaboration: Team leader and member who believes individual wins are team wins, inquisitive with strong desire to learn

A day in the life

You'll map technical leadership at target companies, identifying Principal Engineers working on problems similar to Amazon's strategic initiatives. You'll craft multi-channel engagement strategies—attending technical conferences, leveraging networks for warm introductions to passive candidates who would be transformational hires.

You'll advise VPs on search parameters based on market realities, conduct phone screens with renowned engineers assessing technical depth and influence capability, and coach hiring managers on candidate engagement. You'll contribute to the team's knowledge base by documenting insights about emerging talent pools that inform future searches.

About The Team

The Principal Engineering Recruiting team is the talent acquisition engine for Amazon's PE Community. We take a multi-channel approach (target company mapping, conference and event engagement, referral and network lead generation) to talent identification, engagement, assessment, and match-making. Our mission: identify, build relationships with, and hire every great Principal Engineer in the world. You'll work with a strong, established team of executive recruiters.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 3 years of passive candidate generation experience
  • Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high-tech market
  • Several years of experience advising and influencing executive leadership

Preferred Qualifications

  • Exhibits excellent judgment Hires great people. Develops great people. Has relentlessly high standards
  • Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
  • Expects and requires innovation of their team
  • Thinks big and has convictions
  • Results oriented

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 80,200.00 - 137,000.00 USD annually


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A3185073

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