The C3 AI Forward Deployed Engineer interview loop, round by round
An AI video screen before any human sees you.
An automated video screen first, then a coding screen, then system design. The first stage is behavioural only, with no live coding in it.
How we know this. Reported August 2026, with the video-screen format corroborated by more than one account. C3 AI is not in our job census, so there is no posting count behind this.
Who you meet
- Automated screen
- Engineers
The rounds
1. AI video screen gating
What it grades
- Background and technical experience
- Working with customers
- Why this role
- Simplifying a complex technical problem for a non-technical stakeholder
No live coding at this stage. Talking to a camera with no one to react to is its own skill, and worth one rehearsal.
2. Coding screen
What it grades
- Practical coding
3. System design
What it grades
- Enterprise AI architecture
Questions reported from this loop
- An AI-driven video screen first: background, technical experience, customer collaboration, and why this role. No live coding at that stage.
- Tell me about a time you simplified a complex technical problem for a non-technical stakeholder.
What is not on this page: the practice mapped to each round, and the list of what is not worth preparing for this loop. Both are in Rung.
Open this loop in Rung