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Scale Ai Research Engineer Interview Questions

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NLPStart here. 3 questions · ~24 min
STaR vs PLANSEARCH for CodingMedium

Compare self-training on rationales versus explicit plan search for difficult software engineering reasoning tasks.

reasoning methodsllm planningsoftware engineeringSScale Ai
Control Agent Planning LoopsMedium

Design safeguards for multi-step LLM agents so they stop looping, recover from bad plans, and stay grounded.

Hallucinationmulti-step planningLLM AgentsSScale Ai
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System Design6 questions · ~49 min
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~32 min
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More topics6 questions · ~49 min
PyTorch Training Loop with AMPMedium

Explain a PyTorch training loop that combines gradient accumulation and mixed precision for a multi-modal transformer.

functionspythonFrameworksSScale Ai
Evaluate Dataset Quality and CoverageMedium

Define metrics to evaluate dataset quality, diversity, and coverage for a newly collected robotics or autonomous driving dataset.

dataset qualityModel MetricscoverageSScale Ai
Diagnose Video Loading Pipeline BottlenecksMedium

Identify and fix throughput bottlenecks in a multi-camera video loading pipeline used for model training.

data loadingmonitoringbottlenecksSScale Ai
Debugging Training vs RealityHard

Tests your debugging methodology for sim or training metrics that do not match real-world outcomes.

Debuggingtechnical experienceSScale Ai
Trajectory Parsing Python PrototypeHard

Tests your software engineering skills for building reliable data preprocessing pipelines.

json parsingData StructurespythonSScale Ai
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