System design (AI/ML)

Summary

Designing an AI system end-to-end under interview constraints — expect to be asked to design a RAG system, recommendation engine, or ML pipeline on a whiteboard.

How to Learn This

1Practice 2-3 full mock system design interviews for AI-specific systems.
2Structure your answers: requirements, high-level design, deep dive, trade-offs.
3Always state assumptions about scale explicitly before designing.

LLM/GenAI Concepts

RAG & Vector Database Design

More technical in Interview Preparation

ML Fundamentals & Math Deep Learning & Architectures LLM/GenAI Concepts RAG & Vector Database Design Prompt Engineering Questions Model Evaluation & Trade-offs Debugging Model Performance Issues

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