Machine Learning Engineer ML System Design Interview Questions
Practice 179 real ML System Design interview questions for Machine Learning Engineer roles. From companies including OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, Snapchat, Google.

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Design an OOD detection system
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Design an ads ranking system with calibration
ML System Design: Ads Ranking (e-commerce) Design an online ads ranking (ad “re-ranking”) system for an e-commerce app. The system receives a request ...
Design quality checks for spreadsheet LLM data
You are given a dataset for a spreadsheet assistant. Each example contains: 1. a natural-language prompt, 2. an Excel-style table or worksheet represe...
Design video captioning under compute limits
Scenario You work on a multimodal team at a large short-video platform. The team has a multimodal large model that takes a video (sampled frames, with...
Design a RAG system end to end
Design a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) System for Enterprise Text Context You are building a production RAG system that answers employee questi...
Design a scalable video search system
Design a Text-to-Video and Video-to-Video Search System Context You are tasked with designing an end-to-end multimodal retrieval system that supports ...
Design a production RAG system
Question Design a production retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for enterprise document QA. Walk through the end-to-end architecture and just...
Design a video recommendation system
Scenario Design an end-to-end video recommendation system for a short-video or spotlight-style feed. Requirements 1. Product goals - Personalized r...
Design a real-time recommendation system
You are asked to design a real-time recommendation system for a large-scale consumer product (for example, recommending items or content to users in a...
Design a grounded voice assistant
You are designing a voice assistant response system similar to Siri. The assistant uses a large language model together with external tools or APIs to...
Design an AWS fine-tuning platform for LLMs
Scenario You need to build a system that lets customers fine-tune their own large language model (LLM) on AWS. Task Design a managed platform where us...
Design a computer-use agent end-to-end
Scenario You are designing a computer-use agent that can complete user tasks on a standard desktop environment by observing the screen and issuing act...
Discuss ML infrastructure fundamentals
ML System Design: Infra Stack, Feature Store, Reproducibility, and Monitoring Context: You are designing and operating a machine learning platform tha...
Explain parallelism and collectives in training
Parallelism strategies and communication in large-scale training You are designing a distributed training setup for very large neural networks that ca...
Design real-time grid ETA for drivers
Real-Time Grid-ETA System Design You are tasked with designing a real-time system that maintains the remaining ETA for every driver currently located ...
Design a hierarchical multi-label classifier
System Design: Hierarchical Multi-Label Classifier for Noisy Taxonomy Context You have a catalog of items with hierarchical tags (e.g., Category → Sub...
Design a harmful video content moderation system
Question Design an end-to-end system to detect and moderate harmful videos on a large platform. Requirements - Detect multiple policy categories (viol...
Design a video VLM end-to-end
Prompt: Design a video vision-language model (VLM) from scratch You are asked to design an end-to-end system to build a video vision-language model th...
Design a DNA-sequence optimization loop
You are building an ML-driven platform to optimize DNA sequences (e.g., a promoter/enhancer/codon-optimized gene) for a target lab-measured property (...
Design a Real-Time Feature Store
Design a real-time feature store for machine learning systems used in ads or recommendation ranking. Your design should support both: - Online inferen...