Design Safe Distribution and Activation of Model Weights
Company: Anthropic
Role: Software Engineer
Category: ML System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Design a release system that distributes large model-weight artifacts to a serving fleet and activates them without exposing partial state. Candidates must reason about immutable manifests, transfer integrity, staged rollout, rollback, controller recovery, capacity, and operational safeguards.