Rajat Naha — Recruiter

Since 2012, I've been the technical recruiting partner, extensive recruitment expertise in building teams from scratch or scale or hire fast. At Amazon's Lab126 Hardware, Robotics, Healthcare, intelligence Cloud, and Amazon.com orgs, I delivered 110% of commitments—landing senior/principal hires, turning impossible reqs into reality, and cutting senior IC time-to-fill by ~15-20% through creative sourcing, HM intake frameworks and structured closing. Built teams from 0→1 and scaled existing teams using rapid experimentation and simplified hiring models. I specialize in full-cycle recruiting for multidisciplinary technical roles—Research/Applied Scientists, Senior Software Engineers, MLEs, AI/ML specialists, Program/Product Managers, Robotics, and R&D Hardware Engineering. My secret? Direct sourcing (50-60%) fueled by employee referrals, conference mining, alumni networks, silver medalists, and ruthless inbound tracking, driving ~25-30% onsite-to-offer conversion. Leadership trusts me to partner strategically: I collaborate with VPs, HRBPs, and Comp teams to navigate exceptions, influence hiring managers with data (time-to-fill analysis, funnel metrics and gap analysis) to make great hiring decisions. Optimize hiring cycle time through crisp HM intake frameworks, promote interviewers perticipation and interview calibration. From market mapping and comp benchmarking to diversity hiring and global expansion, I make technical recruiting predictable, scalable, and exceptional. Whether you're launching a new lab, scaling AI teams, or filling niche Software or hardware or AI/ML roles, I bring the same proven playbook: speed + quality + strategic partnership. I drive results through competitive market intelligence, innovative sourcing for "hard to fill" roles, employer branding via targeted networking events, data‑backed HM influence, funnel metrics delivery, and structured innovative closing. Would you like to connect? Email ID : raj.naha@gmail.com

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic technical recruiter specializing in AI/ML and hardware roles.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Technical Recruiting
Full-cycle Recruiting

Career Highlights

Delivered 110% of commitments at Amazon.
Reduced senior IC time-to-fill by 15-20%.
Expert in full-cycle recruiting for technical roles.

Work Experience

Samsung Semiconductor

Talent Acquisition Lead (2 mos)

Amazon

Senior Technical Recruiter (1 yr)

Full Life Cycle Recruiter III (10 mos)

Senior Technical Recruiter (1 yr 10 mos)

Lead Technical Recruiter (2 yrs 3 mos)

Senior Technical Recruiter (7 yrs 6 mos)

Amazon Lab126

Client Lead Recruiter (4 mos)

Oracle India

Technical Recruiter (5 yrs 8 mos)

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA at Christ University, Bangalore

Bachelor's degree at MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore, India

Rajat Naha

Recruiter

San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 7 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Delivered 110% of commitments at Amazon.
Reduced senior IC time-to-fill by 15-20%.
Expert in full-cycle recruiting for technical roles.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic technical recruiter specializing in AI/ML and hardware roles.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingFull-cycle Recruiting

Other Skills

Healthcare HiringCandidate PipelineReduce Time to FillOffer ClosingOnsite to Offer ConversionLocation StrategyRobotics HiringHRBP PartnershipHiring DashboardDEI SourcingProduct Management HiringOffer NegotiationStrategic SourcingStakeholder ManagementLeadership Hiring

About

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Samsung semiconductor

Talent Acquisition Lead

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · San Jose, CA

At Samsung Semiconductor’s San Jose headquarters, I am leading the recruiting effort for highly specialized technical leadership roles, including Principal Architects, Senior Staff Engineers and Performance Architecture, supporting the Memory Centric Computing and AI/ML Product Groups like..
AGI Computing Lab
Technology Enabling Development Lab
Custom Solutions and
System LSI R&D Lab

Amazon

5 roles

Senior Technical Recruiter

Feb 2025 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, CA

Owned end-to-end / full life cycle recruiting across Software Engineer to Principal roles, AI/ML, Cloud
Infra, Hardware, Robotics and Product teams, on sourcing, assessment rigor, and high-quality hires.
Built new engineering team from 0 to 1 and scaled another from 35 to 110, acting as a strategic partner to leaders, using start‑up‑style approach and data‑driven decision making.

Full Life Cycle Recruiter III

Apr 2024 – Feb 2025 · 10 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

- Drove full-cycle hiring for multidisciplinary engineering roles (Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, compliance) within Amazon Fulfillment Technology and Global Robotics.

Senior Technical Recruiter

May 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

- Partner directly with Engineering Manager, Directors and VP's to define search strategies, hiring best practices, candidate engagement and employer branding for Amazon.com Catalog Org.

Healthcare HiringCandidate PipelineReduce Time to FillOffer ClosingOnsite to Offer ConversionLocation Strategy+17

Lead Technical Recruiter

Jan 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Led full-cycle engineering searches while leading a recruiting team of 8 Recruiter focused on research, candidate generation and succession planning for leadership level roles in the company.
Responsible for hiring Level- 7 roles like, Principal Product Manager and Senior Engineering Managers for Catalog, Intelligence Cloud and e-commerce org.

AI/ML HiringHardware HiringTechnical RecruitingFull-Cycle Recruiting

Senior Technical Recruiter

Feb 2012 – Aug 2019 · 7 yrs 6 mos

Owned senior SDE3/Architect role scoping, attracting talents and hiring for across Amazon APAC locations.
Hired candidates Applied Science Manager, Sr. SDE’s for Core Machine learning teams.

Amazon lab126

Client Lead Recruiter

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos · Sunnyvale, California

Managed hiring for Boston, Seattle and Sunnyvale locations for R&D and Audio Devices group ( Amazon Lab126 ).
Worked with 2 Sourcing Recruiter to hire hardware(Embedded, Electrical & Mechanical Engineers) roles.

Oracle india

Technical Recruiter

Jun 2006 – Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru

Led end-to-end Engineering hiring across multiple Oracle business units including GSD, Server Technology, Oracle Consulting, and ERP groups.
Partnered with business leaders to design and execute quarterly hiring plans and mentored a small team of recruiters. Specialized in recruiting for Sales Consulting, Fusion Middleware (Java, J2EE, SOA), Oracle Database, and ERP (PeopleSoft, Oracle Apps, JDE, Siebel).
Led tech recruiting for Oracle Direct – A sales unit helps Oracle to sale Oracle products for their North American Clients & Customers.
Worked as a Sourcing Recruiter for positions like - SOA Architect, Exadata /Benchmarking DBA, Oracle DBA, BI/DWH Consultants, Business Development Manager.