Design an Agent for Internal Document Search

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Design an internal document-search agent with permission-aware ingestion and retrieval, grounded answers, citations, and useful abstention. Address changing access rights, document freshness, evaluation, prompt-injection defenses, latency and cost controls, observability, and large-scale serving.

Design an Agent for Internal Document Search

Company: Google

Role: Software Engineer

Category: ML System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Design an internal document-search agent with permission-aware ingestion and retrieval, grounded answers, citations, and useful abstention. Address changing access rights, document freshness, evaluation, prompt-injection defenses, latency and cost controls, observability, and large-scale serving.

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Aug 11, 2026
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