Vrushali Kulkarni

Talent Strategist AI @ AWS | Helping Teams Hire Smarter

San Jose, California, United States

About

Senior Talent Professional at Amazon with over 8 years of experience in talent acquisition, specializing in hiring for AI, LLMs, and ML roles. Focused on building world-class teams powering next-gen AI initiatives, including Alexa, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon LLM Models. Demonstrates expertise in end-to-end recruiting, spanning sourcing, candidate engagement, and onboarding for technical and leadership roles. Contributed to a proof-of-concept initiative that integrated AI tools into recruiting workflows, training over 150 recruiters globally, and increasing sourcing efficiency by 25%. Passionate about advancing AI innovation through recruitment strategies, connecting exceptional talent to transformative opportunities, and scaling cutting-edge initiatives.

Experience

  • Amazon (On-site)
    • Senior Talent Strategist- AWS Data Center
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      Hiring for AI Infrastructure & Data centers

    • Senior Technical Recruiter
      Jan 2021 - Jan 2026 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Technical Recruiter at Amazon Devices | Driving end-to-end hiring for AI and ML talent powering Alexa, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon LLM Models, Hired across roles including hardware, supply chain operations, LLM Engineers, ML Scientists, Data Scientists, TPMs, and Product Managers. Led a POC introducing AI tools into recruiting, training 150+ recruiters across hubs and improving sourcing efficiency by 25%. Passionate about building world-class teams and scaling next-gen AI initiatives.

  • Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Intuitive
    May 2017 - Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Identify top talent for Intuitive’s multiple software groups with diverse talent requirements. o Demonstrated passion for engineering recruiting in Hardware & Software Engineers in emerging areas - Robotics/Camera/Video/Computer vision/AR/VR/SLAM/ML o Work closely with business to deeply understand the requirements of the role, the function and how it fits into the organization. o Strategize different ways to build talent pipelines and execute on tactical research, referral generation, talent mapping, events and sourcing campaigns. o Identify qualified candidates through a number of creative outlets (ATS, Job boards, networking groups, social media, X ray search, Boolean strings, patents, white papers). o Diligent with understanding technology and trends thereby, providing insights to Intuitive’s hiring. o Oversee the full life cycle recruitment process.

  • Talent Acquisition Specialist at Talentum, Inc.
    Dec 2016 - May 2017 · 6 mos

    Talent Acquisition for early stage startups in cutting edge domains - Self driving, Robotics, Fintech,healthcare,security etc.. Talent hacker for Software engineers.

  • Software Engineer at Wells Fargo
    Jan 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Break AND Play with the authentication/authorization systems

  • Software Intern at MoodMe
    Feb 2014 - Nov 2014 · 10 mos

    • Involved in testing application on different platform such as Android and IOS devices. • Perform QA smoke, Acceptance, Regression, function, UI, Usability, interruption and compatibility testing. • Tested the Calling, Call forward, LBS, Bluetooth, voicemail, call history functionalities. • Involved in writing detailed Test plan and test cases. • Working closely with Project Manager/Test Lead and Project Team to learn about the project functionalities and provided testing timelines. • Logged defects encountered in the application using JIRA. • Attended demos and interacted with clients for User Acceptance testing