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xAI AI Engineer Interview Questions

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Generative AI & LLMsStart here. 11 questions · ~96 min
Fix Hallucinations in RAG AnswersEasy

Reduce hallucinations in a RAG system even when retrieval is already correct, using grounding, verification, and evaluation.

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Approach LLM Fine-Tuning for TasksMedium

Explain a practical approach to fine-tuning an LLM for a specific task, including data, evaluation, and hallucination risks.

Prompt EngineeringLLM EvaluationFine-TuningxAI
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System Design5 questions · ~44 min
Design an LLM Serving PlatformHard

Design an LLM serving system that balances latency, cost, scalability, and safety for production traffic.

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Production Inference Cluster MonitoringHard

Design monitoring and mitigation for model drift, throughput degradation, and GPU memory fragmentation in production inference.

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Coding10 questions · ~87 min
Low-Latency Vector Similarity SearchHard
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Build a deterministic cosine-similarity engine with normalized embeddings, vector indices, and stable top-k retrieval.

Vector SearchCodingData StructuresxAI
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Model Evaluation3 questions · ~26 min
LLM Accuracy and Safety EvaluationHard

Design an evaluation framework that measures both LLM answer quality and harmful or unsafe behavior.

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Machine Learning3 questions · ~26 min
Quantization Trade-offs for Edge vs CloudMedium

Evaluates your understanding of quantization methods and deployment trade-offs.

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NLP3 questions · ~26 min
Text Dataset Deduping WorkflowMedium

Assesses your end-to-end data preprocessing workflow for large text corpora.

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More topics7 questions · ~61 min
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