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- CodeSeniorNew
Min-Cost Max-Flow for Cloud Workload Placement
Receive 30 days of anonymized placement requests (workload CPU/memory shape, affinity rules), zone capacity per day, and cross-zone bandwidth costs. Model the placement as a min…
- Network Flows
- Algorithm Analysis
- Graph Algorithms
Advanced Algorithms - ResearchSeniorNew
Approximation Algorithm for an SRE On-Call Roster
Formulate the roster as a constrained multi-week assignment problem. Show it's NP-hard via reduction. Design a deterministic constant-factor approximation (likely candidate: an …
- Approximation Algorithms
- Linear Programming
- Np Completeness
Advanced Algorithms - DesignSeniorNew
Design an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Protocol
Read the Signal protocol specifications (X3DH, Double Ratchet) and the team's current architecture (server-stored unencrypted messages). Design an E2EE protocol covering: identi…
- Applied Cryptography
- Protocol Design
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Applied Cryptography - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Custom Cryptographic Protocol
Read the 22-page protocol spec, the Go reference implementation (around 4,000 lines), and the test vectors. Run a structured review covering: primitive choices (which cipher, MA…
- Applied Cryptography
- Cryptographic Audit
- Protocol Analysis
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Implement Threshold Signatures for a Multi-Sig Custody Service
Read the FROST IETF draft (draft-irtf-cfrg-frost) and the underlying Schnorr signature scheme on the secp256k1 curve. Implement the FROST distributed key generation (DKG) and 3-…
- Applied Cryptography
- Threshold Signatures
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Applied Cryptography - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Cross-Chain Bridge Protocol with Honest Threat Model
Read the Vitalik 'cross-chain interoperability' essay and survey 3 existing bridge designs (lock-and-mint, atomic-swap, optimistic-rollup-native). Design your protocol around a …
- Blockchain Protocols
- Smart Contracts
- Solidity
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Mechanism in Rust
Read the Casper FFG paper (Buterin + Griffith, 2017) and design a simplified PoS implementation in Rust: 21 validators, 32-slot epochs, two-phase finality (justify, then finaliz…
- Consensus Algorithms
- Blockchain Protocols
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Blockchain and Decentralized Systems Engineering - DesignSeniorNew
Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture for a Gaming Backend
Read the current architecture (single-region: ECS + RDS Aurora + Redis + S3) and traffic mix (around 60 percent APAC, 25 percent NA, 15 percent EU). Design a 3-region active-act…
- Multi Region Architecture
- AWS Or Azure
- Terraform
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Auto-Vectorize an Inner Loop for AVX-512
Profile the existing kernel on a 12-dataset benchmark (provided). Pick one of two strategies: (a) add an LLVM IR-level vectorization pass plugged into the existing pipeline, or …
- Vectorization
- Llvm
- Loop Optimization
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - CodeSeniorNew
Design a Polyhedral Loop-Tiling Strategy for a Tensor DSL
Study the DSL's IR (provided, MLIR-based with linalg-style ops). Choose a tiling strategy (rectangular tiling with cost-modeled tile sizes is the safe baseline; full polyhedral …
- Polyhedral Analysis
- Loop Tiling
- Mlir
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - AnalysisSeniorNew
Memory Consistency Model Audit of a Lock-Free Queue
Read the SPSC queue source (around 200 lines of C++). For each atomic operation, classify the required ordering and verify the chosen memory_order is sufficient under both x86-T…
- Memory Consistency
- Concurrency
- Lock Free Programming
Advanced Computer Architecture - CodeSeniorNew
Heterogeneous Scheduling Policy for a Big.LITTLE Mobile SoC
Read the existing scheduler's energy model (provided). Design an improved policy using one or more of: per-task IPC-aware placement, exponential moving average load smoothing to…
- Multicore Architecture
- Scheduling
- Energy Modeling
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Physically-Based Path Tracer for a Product Visualization Studio
Build a path tracer in C++ with: ray-triangle and ray-sphere intersection on a BVH (bounding volume hierarchy), Lambertian diffuse and Cook-Torrance GGX specular BRDFs, multiple…
- Physically Based Rendering
- Path Tracing
- Shading And Lighting
Advanced Computer Graphics - CodeSeniorNew
Digital Human Avatar Pipeline for a Conferencing Product
Build a Python pipeline: face detection + landmark extraction, FLAME (or equivalent) face-model fitting to landmarks + photometric loss, texture inference, and skinning weight a…
- Digital Humans
- Geometry Processing
- 3d Rendering
Advanced Computer Graphics - CodeSeniorNew
Real-Time Global Illumination for an Indie Game
Survey 3 candidate GI techniques: voxel cone tracing (VXGI-style), screen-space GI (SSGI), and irradiance probe volumes. Pick one and justify based on quality/perf trade-offs fo…
- Physically Based Rendering
- Global Illumination
- Gpu Pipeline
Advanced Computer Graphics - DesignSeniorNew
Re-Architect a Data-Center Fabric for an AI-Training Workload
Receive the current 3-tier topology diagram, traffic captures from the existing fabric (4 weeks of sFlow), and the rack-level requirements for the 4 new H100 racks (200 Gbps per…
- Data Center Networking
- Bgp
- Evpn Vxlan
Advanced Computer Networks - CodeSeniorNew
Build a Kernel-Module Sandbox for an Untrusted Code Service
Receive the current Docker-based sandbox configuration, post-incident reports for both escapes, and the runtime requirements for Python and C++ (compilers, package availability,…
- Sandboxing
- Seccomp Bpf
- Gvisor
Computer Systems Security - CodeSeniorNew
Reverse-Engineer and Patch an N-Day Vulnerability in a Vendor Binary
Receive the vulnerable binary (Linux ELF, x86-64), the public CVE-2025-XXXX advisory + PoC, and the bank's deployment context (RHEL 9, the binary runs as a non-root service). Lo…
- Reverse Engineering
- Binary Exploitation
- Ghidra
Computer Systems Security - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Confidential-Computing Architecture for a Genomics Workflow
Receive the workflow description (per-hospital genome BAM files uploaded to S3, processed by a variant-calling pipeline, results returned per-hospital), the partner-hospital leg…
- Confidential Computing
- Remote Attestation
- Secure Architectures
Computer Systems Security - CodeSeniorNew
Vectorize a Risk-Calculation Engine for a Mid-Cap Bank
Receive the existing pricer (C++17, scalar, around 600 lines), 2 weeks of representative input data (around 50M paths), the validation harness, and access to an Intel Ice Lake-S…
- Vectorization
- Avx 512
- Simd
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Cache-Optimize a Graph-Analytics Kernel for a Social Platform
Receive the existing kernel (C++ + OpenMP, around 1,200 lines), the 1.8B-edge graph (CSR format, around 14GB), and target hardware (dual-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 384GB DDR5, 256MB …
- Cache Optimization
- Graph Algorithms
- Memory Hierarchy
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Profile and Tame a P99-Latency Tail for an Ad-Auction Service
Receive the bidder source (Go, around 22,000 lines), production traces (eBPF + flame graphs from 30 minutes of peak traffic), and the host config (NUMA-2 socket, 96 cores, 384GB…
- Performance Optimization
- Ebpf
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Port a Numerical Kernel from CPU to GPU for a CFD Simulator
Receive the existing CFD solver (C++17 + OpenMP, around 8,000 lines, the hot kernel is a 7-point stencil sweep over a 512^3 grid), the validation harness, and access to an A100 …
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Parallelism
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Build a Lock-Free MPMC Queue for a Trading-Backend Hot Path
Implement Vyukov's bounded MPMC queue in C++20 using atomic operations with explicit memory orderings (relaxed where safe, acquire/release on the enqueue/dequeue handshake). Use…
- Lock Free Algorithms
- Memory Models
- Systems Language Proficiency (Go, Rust, C++)
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing
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