Applied AI Researcher Interview Experience

Interview process

This was unique because I had a call with another AI Engineer first which asked about my experience, background, and going over one specific project and follow-up questions about that. This was before the recruiter call which acted more as a logistics round. Then the first technical round is something between systems design and prompt engineering where you're expected to explain how to make a system work by chaining LLM tool calls together, so be prepared to dive into the details and explain each step of the process. The interviewer was very detailed and asked about where to store the data as well for follow-ups, so they definitely want to make sure you cover all the grounds. What didn't go as well was that I wasn't fully prepared for the level of technical detail the interviewer was looking to hear. I approached some of the questions at a higher level, when they were looking for more concrete implementation details, like which databases or technologies I would use (like PostgreSQL or SQL).