Deploy a Large Model to GPU Workers
Company: Anthropic
Role: Machine Learning Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Onsite
Quick Answer: Design a fast, reliable way to distribute a 500 GB model artifact to hundreds or thousands of GPU workers. Compare direct fan-out, pipelines, and trees while covering chunk verification, topology-aware bandwidth, retries, atomic activation, rollout readiness, and rollback.