Technical practice
How would you structure a Python REST API that serves an AI component?
What to coverThe posting emphasizes FastAPI, REST APIs, microservices, backend integration and API security. Suggested preparation: explain request validation, authentication, separation of inference from API logic, and how you would handle slow or failed AI calls.
How would you design a RAG pipeline from documents to a grounded answer?
What to coverThe role calls for RAG using embeddings, vector databases and LLMs. Suggested preparation: walk through indexing, semantic retrieval, context selection and answer generation, including where quality and latency trade off.
How would you diagnose poor retrieval quality in a RAG system?
What to coverThe posting explicitly mentions retrieval evaluation and re-ranking. Suggested preparation: distinguish missing relevant documents from poor ranking, describe how you would evaluate retrieved results, and explain when re-ranking is worth its cost.
How would you reduce unsupported claims in an LLM response?
What to coverPrompt engineering and hallucination handling are stated requirements. Suggested preparation: discuss grounding responses in retrieved evidence, testing prompts against failure cases, and validating answers without claiming that prompting alone guarantees accuracy.
How would you build an agent workflow for business process automation?
What to coverThe role includes single- and multi-agent workflows and names LangChain, LangGraph and LlamaIndex. Suggested preparation: explain task boundaries, tool access, state and failure handling, and when a simpler workflow would be preferable to multiple agents.
How would you evaluate single-agent and multi-agent systems?
What to coverThe posting specifies task completion, reasoning quality, tool usage and workflow efficiency as evaluation dimensions. Suggested preparation: describe test tasks, observable measures and failure analysis, including how you would compare added agent complexity with its benefits.
Where would you enforce guardrails in an LLM application?
What to coverThe role names content filtering, output validation, safety policies, compliance and audit logging. Suggested preparation: distinguish input, tool-use and output controls, and discuss the trade-off between blocking unsafe behavior and rejecting valid requests.
How would you integrate AWS Bedrock into a RAG-backed service?
What to coverThe posting requests knowledge of Bedrock model invocation and RAG integration with S3, Lambda, Glue, Athena and OpenSearch. Suggested preparation: outline how you would assign responsibilities among relevant services, keeping the architecture proportional to the use case rather than assuming all are needed.
How would you deploy and monitor a production AI service?
What to coverThe role lists AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and monitoring of performance, cost, latency and accuracy. Suggested preparation: explain a deployment and rollback approach, what you would measure after release, and how operational signals would guide changes.
How would you choose libraries for the ML portion of an AI application?
What to coverThe posting lists Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face Transformers. Suggested preparation: compare their roles in data preparation, conventional ML and model development or use, explaining choices against the application's needs rather than assuming every library belongs in one solution.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you took an AI-powered service toward production.
What to coverThe posting emphasizes production-grade, scalable AI applications; this is a suggested practice question, not a confirmed interview question. Use a real situation, your own deployment or reliability actions, and the observed result.
Describe a time evaluation revealed that an AI workflow was not working well.
What to coverThe role calls for RAG and agent evaluation; this is a suggested practice question. Give the situation, the evidence you examined, the change you made, and the measured or observed result.
Tell me about a time you balanced a safety control against application usefulness.
What to coverGuardrails and governance are explicit responsibilities; this is a suggested practice question. Describe the situation, your decision and its rationale, and what happened afterward, including any unresolved trade-off.
Describe a time you integrated an AI or ML component with a backend service.
What to coverThe posting calls for REST APIs and microservices that integrate AI/ML components with backend systems; this is a suggested practice question. Explain the integration situation, your specific actions to resolve interface or operational issues, and the result.