1. Code & Model Architecture Assessment
Evaluating hands-on PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, and API-orchestrated codebase quality conducted by senior AI engineering leads.
2. RAG, Eval & Guardrails Audit
Stress-testing candidate expertise in retrieval precision, chunking strategies, prompt injection defenses, and semantic validation benchmarks.
3. Inference Efficiency & Cost Optimization
Assessing practical ability to minimize token costs, optimize KV caches, implement speculative decoding, and deploy open-weight models on GPUs.
4. Shortlist Delivery (Days 7–10)
Delivering 3 to 5 hire-ready, interview-prepared senior candidates with technical scorecards, code audit notes, and compensation benchmarks.