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Sandia National Laboratories AI Engineer Interview Questions

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System DesignStart here. 3 questions · ~24 min
Serving Multiple Fine-Tuned LLMsHard

Design a low-latency, cost-aware serving platform for multiple fine-tuned LLMs under variable traffic.

gpu hardwarelatencyml inferenceSandia National Laboratories
End-to-End Distributed Embedding PipelineHard

Assesses system design for large-scale embedding and vector search pipelines.

Vector SearchSandia National Laboratories
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Model Evaluation3 questions · ~24 min
Choose Classification MetricsMedium

Choose the right classification metrics, and explain when precision, recall, and F1 score matter most.

F1 ScorePrecisionRecallSandia National Laboratories
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Machine Learning13 questions · ~106 min
Handling Class Imbalance in Anomaly TasksMedium

Tests approaches to imbalanced data in anomaly detection contexts.

anomaly detectionClass ImbalanceSandia National Laboratories
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Pipelines4 questions · ~33 min
Distributed Data Loading BottlenecksHard

Tests ability to diagnose and fix performance issues in distributed ML training pipelines.

InfrastructureBatch ProcessingDependenciesSandia National Laboratories
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~33 min
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More topics4 questions · ~33 min
RAG Hallucination PreventionHard

Design a table-aware RAG pipeline for multi-page JPMorganChase financial documents that minimizes unsupported answers and citations.

long contextHallucinationRAGSandia National Laboratories
Data Structures and ComplexityMedium

Tests algorithmic thinking and ability to choose efficient data structures for scale.

Hash TablesArraysSortingSandia National Laboratories
Domain-Specific LLM EvaluationMedium

Evaluates custom LLM evaluation for domain-specific corpora.

LLM EvaluationSandia National Laboratories
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