Not in a Amendment it is in the original constitution. A amendment is a change made to the constitution after it was established, hence amendment.
It is located in Article 2 section 1;
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
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A vice-presidential candidate must have the same qualifications as the President, because he may become President.
They are based on the confidence of the President
beaing human and not dead
the U.S. Constitution
The qualifications were put into place by the founding fathers when they wrote the Constitution and have not changed. I think they did not want to eliminate anybody who might be a good President. The voters add their own qualifications when they vote and there is a grueling campaign that tends to expose any weaknesses in a candidate. I wonder what qualifications you would like to add.