AI and Machine Learning Background Questions
A synopsis of applied artificial intelligence and machine learning experience including models, frameworks, and pipelines used, datasets and scale, production deployment experience, evaluation metrics, and measurable business outcomes. Candidates should describe specific projects, roles played, research versus production distinctions, and technical choices and trade offs.
MediumTechnical
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Implement an online exponential moving average (EMA) drift detector in Python that maintains EMA and exponential moving standard deviation for a numeric feature stream, and emits an alert if the latest value differs from EMA by more than 3 standard deviations. Provide code and analyze time/space complexity.
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As a Staff SRE, propose an organizational and operational model to align SRE and ML teams for continuous improvement of reliability. Include shared SLOs, onboarding for ML teams, runbook ownership, reliability review cadence, and incentives to encourage reliability work. Provide metrics to measure success.
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Design an alert suppression and deduplication strategy for ML alerts to reduce on-call noise without missing incidents. Discuss fingerprinting alerts, grouping by root cause, suppression windows, priority tiers, and human override flows.
MediumTechnical
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Describe how you would lead a post-incident review (postmortem) for an outage caused by a bad model release. Cover timeline reconstruction, contributing factors (technical and process), clear action items with owners and deadlines, and ways to measure that corrective actions worked.
MediumTechnical
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Write a Python script to parse model inference logs where each line is JSON like {"timestamp":"2025-01-01T12:00:00Z","request_id":"abc123","latency_ms":123,"status":"ok"}. The script should compute p50 and p95 latency and the overall error rate for the last 24 hours, assuming logs are stored in a file. Describe how you'd scale this for very large files.
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