1:1 Mentoring with Big Tech AI Engineers
Anthropic
S15
MediumPremium

Design an LLM Gateway / Model Router & Inference Proxy

Design an internal LLM gateway that every product team calls instead of hitting OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google directly.

InfrastructureCost OptimizationReliabilityRouting

Key Requirements

  • Route requests to the right model based on complexity and cost
  • Rate limiting and per-team cost tracking
  • Semantic caching to reduce redundant API calls
  • Automatic failover when a provider goes down
  • Centralized logging, auditing, and usage dashboards

Interviewer Follow-ups

  • Q1How do you decide which model to route a request to?
  • Q2How do you handle a provider outage without dropping requests?
  • Q3How do you prevent one team from exhausting the shared budget?
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