Deploy production GenAI at Databricks customers in Korea

Interview for a Forward Deployed AI Engineer role on Databricks' AI Professional Services team in Seoul, building and productionizing RAG, multi-agent, and Text2SQL systems directly with customers. Expect deep technical questioning on GenAI architecture plus fluent bilingual (Korean/English) client-facing communication.

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What this interview tests

RAG and multi-agent system design
Text2SQL and fine-tuning tradeoffs
Production GenAI evaluation and optimization
ML deployment on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Customer-facing technical advisory

Common question themes

Walk through a production GenAI system you owned end to end

How do you evaluate and improve a RAG or agent pipeline post-launch

Explain a complex ML/AI tradeoff to a non-technical customer stakeholder

Handling an ambiguous, first-of-its-kind customer AI problem

Experience with Databricks/Spark for large-scale data processing

How candidates describe it

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