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Interview prep by company

Targeting one company? Each page covers how it hires, what its loop tests, and the questions that map to it. We group honestly by whether the company runs a true Applied AI Engineer program.

43 companies·16 Applied AI roles·updated for 2026

Applied AI Engineer programs

16Companies that run a real Applied AI or embedded applied-AI org.

OpenAI Anthropic Google Microsoft Scale AI Cognition Decagon Sarvam AI Palantir Meta Mistral Glean Sierra Harvey NVIDIA C3 AI

Applied AI & solutions engineering

8Customer-facing AI engineering roles, Applied AI-adjacent.

AWS IBM xAI Salesforce Databricks Snowflake Cohere Perplexity

AI & ML engineering loops

19No classic Applied AI program, but their engineering loops overlap heavily with this bank.

Google DeepMind Google Gemini Hugging Face DeepSeek Thinking Machines SSI (Safe Superintelligence)Reflection AI Shield AI SpaceX Black Forest Labs Alibaba Tencent Baidu ByteDance Parallel Stanford AI Lab Capital One Airbnb Zendesk