Principal Product Engineer - Interview Innovation (United States)

The role

You will own the product vision, strategy, and hands-on execution for technical assessment and interview-innovation. You will ship prototypes, spike on new AI techniques, and collaborate across engineering, content, design, and go-to-market teams.

What you will do

• Define the roadmap for AI-driven assessment and interview-innovation capabilities
• Evaluate how emerging AI techniques can strengthen technical capability signals
• Write code and rapidly prototype new interview formats and assessments
• Use AI-assisted development tools to prototype and stress-test product assumptions
• Prioritize features based on customer needs and business objectives
• Analyze assessment data to improve accuracy and design experiments
• Track performance metrics and identify improvement opportunities
• Partner with Go-to-Market teams on expansion strategies
• Evaluate AI susceptibility of current offerings and implement safeguards
• Collaborate with content teams on formats for complex technical roles

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of combined product management and software engineering experience
• Actively coding using modern AI-assisted development tools
• CS degree or equivalent technical foundation
• Ability to read and write code across common languages
• Experience defining, launching, selling, and scaling successful products
• Ability to hold technical conversations with senior engineering leaders
• Track record of working directly with B2B customers in a SaaS environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Track record of executive presentations

Before you apply

• This position is only available to candidates residing in FL, IL, MA, MO, OR, TX, and WA
• Immigration sponsorship is not available

About the company

Karat is a talent elevation partner that helps technical leaders transform their workforce. The company evaluates and benchmarks engineering talent using methodologies and AI-native scenarios.