Physical Intelligence interview process and questions

A 45-minute hiring-manager conversation, an hour of hand-written backend coding over SSH (a cache in front of a database), then a 90-minute build with two interviewers where you drive AI coding agents to ship a data pipeline and a UI and present the result. We have 2 Physical Intelligence interview questions across its 3 rounds, the newest asked Sep 22, 2026; all of them are coding.

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  Bounded LRU cache in front of a database repositoryCodingLockedA backend service reads records from a database through a repository, and reads are slow. Write, by hand, a cache in front of the repository: repeated reads of a key are served…

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  Build an embedding pipeline with a UI in 90 minutes using AI coding agentsCodingLockedA 90-minute build with two interviewers watching. You SSH into a prepared machine that holds a dataset, a key for an embeddings API, and two AI coding agents from different…

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