Applied AI Engineer

Welcome to the Narrative Applied AI Engineer Assessment! Thanks for taking the time to complete this assessment. This is designed to give you a realistic look at the kind of work you'd own in this role - designing production LLM systems, reasoning about evaluation and observability, and thinking through how AI systems learn and improve over time - while giving us a clear picture of how you think. What to expect: The assessment has 4 questions: an optional 90-second video introduction and three written response questions covering evaluation design, system architecture, and agent orchestration. The full assessment takes approximately 80 minutes. A few things to keep in mind: Written questions ask for concrete specifics - architecture decisions, data flows, tradeoffs. Depth matters more than length. We'd rather see you go deep on the areas you know best than spread thin across everything. There are no trick questions. The design questions are intentionally open-ended. We're looking for production thinking, not textbook answers. Good luck!