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ML Engineering & MLOps Challenges
ML Engineering & MLOps challenges put you inside the work of getting models out of notebooks and into production. You'll develop skills in building ML Pipelines, Model Packaging and Model Deployment, and understanding the gap between Training vs Serving, while tracking work in MLflow.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Model Monitoring, Drift detection & auto-retraining, Kubeflow pipelines, Edge Deployment, and ONNX optimization — running Weights & Biases experiment tracking and Production ML deployment the way real MLOps teams do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
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Predict Loan Default Risk for a Cross-Border Fintech
You receive 18 months of transactions (around 12M rows) and seller-firmographic data. Define a defensible proxy label for default (e.g., a 60-day chargeback-or-dispute spike com…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Selection
- Model Evaluation
Applied Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Safety-Critical Test Harness for an AV Planner
Use CARLA (open-source AV simulator) and encode 10 representative safety scenarios across 3 categories (cut-in, pedestrian emergence, signalized-intersection right-of-way). Writ…
- Simulation
- Scenario Testing
- Safety Evaluation
AI for Autonomous Vehicles - CodeSeniorNew
Train a 3D Object Detector for Highway Trucking
Use the nuScenes or Waymo Open Dataset (open access) as your training and evaluation source. Fine-tune a strong baseline (e.g., CenterPoint or BEVFusion) and define an evaluatio…
- Object Detection
- Perception
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
AI for Autonomous Vehicles - PresentationSeniorNew
Run a Post-Mortem on a Failed ML Deployment
You receive a packet: original training data sample, post-launch production logs, three Slack-style threads from the on-call rotation, and a summary of the telco's complaints. R…
- 5 Whys & Fishbone Root Cause Analysis
- Stakeholder Framing
- Model Monitoring
Machine Learning in Practice Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Energy Demand for a Nordic Renewable Utility
You receive 5 years of hourly residential-segment demand, hourly weather data (temperature, wind, irradiance), and a calendar of public holidays. Build a probabilistic forecaste…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Probabilistic Modeling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Triage Medical-Imaging Annotations with a Small Vision Model
Train a binary normal/abnormal classifier on the public CheXpert or NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset. Use temperature scaling to calibrate the output, then define abstention thresholds …
- Cnn Classification
- Transfer Learning
- Calibration
Applied Machine Learning - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Lightweight ML Microservice for an EdTech Reading App
You receive 3 months of session telemetry (around 50M reading events, child-anonymized). Engineer features per session window, train a small classifier (logistic regression base…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Serving
- Containerization
Applied Machine Learning - CodeSeniorNew
Video Action Recognition for a Retail Loss-Prevention Startup
Use a public action-recognition dataset (UCF101 + a small curated retail-action subset; the latter is provided synthetic or you can label 50 short clips). Fine-tune a small back…
- Video Understanding
- Action Recognition
- Transfer Learning
Computer Vision - Browse challenges
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Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline for Loan-Default Prediction
You receive 24 months of historical application + outcome data (about 380,000 rows). Build a pipeline using a workflow orchestrator (Prefect, Kedro, or a simple Makefile chain) …
- Ml Pipelines
- Feature Engineering
- Pipeline Testing
Machine Learning in Practice - CodeIntermediateNew
Defect Detection on PCBs for a Hardware-AI Manufacturer
Use the publicly-available PCB defect dataset (e.g., DeepPCB or HRIPCB). Fine-tune a small object detector (YOLOv8n or RT-DETR-small) on the 6 defect classes. Evaluate mean Aver…
- Object Detection
- Transfer Learning
- Model Evaluation
Computer Vision - CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-View Pose Estimation for a Sports-Analytics Startup
Use the publicly-released SoccerNet or a synthetic 4-view dataset (you can render with Unity or use a provided one). Implement a 2D pose estimator per view (HRNet or YOLOv8-pose…
- Pose Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- 3d Reconstruction
Computer Vision - CodeBeginnerNew
Tune a Recommender for an EU Streaming Music App
Use the public Last.fm-360k or similar dataset (anonymized listening histories) as a stand-in. Implement a baseline matrix-factorization recommender, then a hybrid that adds tra…
- Recommender Systems
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
Applied Machine Learning Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-Sensor Late-Fusion Prototype for an Indoor AGV
Use the public KITTI dataset (or a similar paired LiDAR+RGB dataset) restricted to static-obstacle classes. Implement a late-fusion baseline: a LiDAR-only detector (PointPillars…
- Sensor Fusion
- Object Detection
- Perception
AI for Autonomous Vehicles
How it works
From brief to credential, in six steps.
Step 01
Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
Step 02
Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
Earn a verified credential.
Step 06
Add it to LinkedIn with one click.
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