Intermediate Challenges
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Audit an Agentic Workflow for Safety Failures
Read the system's existing capability spec + tool-allow-list. Design 50+ adversarial inputs across categories: prompt-injection, tool-confusion, scope-escape (agent does somethi…
- Ai Red Teaming
- Agent Safety
- Prompt Injection
Multi-Agent Systems - StrategyIntermediateNew
Change Management for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Assess the current organizational culture using a provided survey (simulated data) and identify potential sources of resistance using Kotter's 8-Step Model or ADKAR. Design a 3-…
- Change Management
- Organizational Culture
- Resistance Management
Business and Industrial Psychology - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Shadow Mapping in a Toy Game Engine
Add a directional-shadow-map render pass to the engine: render the scene depth from the light's perspective into a 2K depth texture, then sample it during the main pass to atten…
- Shading And Lighting
- Gpu Pipeline
- Shadow Mapping
Introduction to Computer Graphics - CodeIntermediateNew
Add Idempotency Keys to a Payment Webhook System
Read the current Go webhook-sender code and 30 days of duplicate-delivery incident logs. Design the idempotency scheme: server-generated key per event (UUID v7 — time-ordered), …
- REST API Design
- Idempotency
- Webhooks
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- ResearchIntermediateNew
Reproduce a Vision-Model Paper Under a Reproducibility Standard
Pick a vision-model paper from CVPR or NeurIPS 2024-2025 with publicly available code and a manageable compute footprint (single-GPU under 24 hours). Reproduce the headline metr…
- Reproducibility
- Experimental Design
- Model Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Order Pipeline for a Fintech Payments Platform
You receive a synthetic Kafka stream of around 500 transactions per second, a static merchant dimension table (about 80,000 rows), and a daily FX rate snapshot. Design an end-to…
- Streaming Data
- Kafka Event Streaming
- Stream Processing
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Sales & Distribution Process Optimization for a Mid-Size Manufacturer
Your task is to audit PumpTech's SD processes (inquiry to cash) and design improvements. You will map the current process, identify root causes of delays (e.g., manual credit ch…
- SAP S4hana
- Sales And Distribution
- Business Process Reengineering
ERP Systems (SAP and Microsoft Dynamics) - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Vector-Search Backend for an Enterprise AI Knowledge Assistant
You receive a corpus of around 20,000 PDFs (mixed scanned and digital) totalling around 30 GB and a labeled retrieval set of 200 queries with human-judged ground-truth passages.…
- RAG Architectures
- Vector Database Basics
- Word Embeddings
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Corporate Innovation Pilot Design for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Audit year-1: review the 14 pilots' charters, outcomes, and sponsor commitment. Identify the structural failures (likely: no sponsor with budget ownership, no scale-up criteria …
- Innovation Management
- Pilot Program Design
- Stakeholder Communication
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - ResearchIntermediateNew
Policy-Gradient Trading Agent on Historical Data
You receive 5 years of daily OHLCV (Open/High/Low/Close/Volume) data for 5 large-cap stocks. Build an episodic environment where each episode is one calendar year and the agent'…
- Policy Gradients
- Reinforce
- Rl Evaluation
Reinforcement Learning - StrategyIntermediateNew
Enterprise Sales Playbook for a PLG SaaS Scale-up
As the first enterprise marketing hire at TaskFlow, create a sales playbook for the new enterprise sales team. The playbook must cover: ideal customer profile (ICP) for enterpri…
- Sales Playbook
- Product Led Growth
- Enterprise Sales
Marketing (MBA) - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Predict Customer Churn for a Telecom Company
You are a business analyst at ConnectTel. Using the provided dataset, conduct exploratory data analysis to understand churn patterns. Then, build a logistic regression model to …
- Logistic Regression
- Classification Metrics
- Feature Selection
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Monte Carlo Engine to CUDA for an Asset Manager
Profile the CPU MC engine to identify the kernel candidates: path generation (Brownian motion + correlated factors), payoff evaluation, aggregation. Port to CUDA: use cuRAND for…
- Cuda
- Monte Carlo
- Gpu Programming
High-Performance and Scientific Computing - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Authenticated Encryption for a Document Service
Design the envelope-encryption hierarchy: customer Key Encryption Key (KEK) held in AWS KMS (Key Management Service), Data Encryption Keys (DEKs) wrapped per document. Use AES-2…
- Applied Cryptography
- Aead
- Key Management
Applied Cryptography - ResearchIntermediateNew
Reward Shaping for a Quadruped Locomotion Policy
You receive a quadruped locomotion environment (Isaac Lab or pybullet-quadruped), the previous reward function (5 terms), and a budget of 6 training runs. Design 4 reward varian…
- Reward Shaping
- Ppo
- Locomotion
Robot Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Transformer for Customer-Support Triage at an Enterprise AI Vendor
You receive 240,000 labeled support tickets across 14 queues, with English, Bahasa Indonesia, and Tagalog. Fine-tune a multilingual transformer encoder (XLM-RoBERTa-base is a st…
- Hugging Face Transformers
- Fine Tuning
- Multilingual NLP
Deep Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Design a Custom Page-Replacement Policy for a Tier-1 Cloud Provider Simulator
Use the provided simulator (Python harness wrapping a C++ page-cache model) and the team's 3 anonymized workload traces (web-cache, key-value store, batch analytics). Implement …
- Memory Management
- Page Replacement
- Benchmarking
Operating Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare Stereo Depth Methods for a Drone Inspection Startup
You receive 500 calibrated stereo pairs from a turbine inspection plus sparse LiDAR ground truth on each pair. Implement (or wrap) three depth estimators: OpenCV Semi-Global Mat…
- Stereo Depth Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- Model Evaluation
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - StrategyIntermediateNew
Geopolitical Strategy for a UK Fintech Expanding to the Middle East
Students will work in teams to produce a geopolitical market entry strategy for PayBridge. The strategy must include a comparative analysis of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, a risk m…
- Market Entry Strategy
- Geopolitical Risk Mitigation
- Regulatory Analysis
Geopolitics for Business - CodeIntermediateNew
Prune and Distill a Speech Model for a Hearable
You receive a trained 280 KB CNN keyword spotter (10 keywords + silence + unknown) with 96.1% top-1 accuracy on the Google Speech Commands test set. Apply structured pruning (ch…
- Pruning
- Knowledge Distillation
- Model Compression
Edge ML and On-Device Machine Learning - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Event-Driven Reporting Pipeline for an Enterprise BI Team
Map the 9 source systems by extraction approach: CDC where possible (Debezium for SAP HANA + MES databases), event hooks where the source supports them (Salesforce streaming API…
- Change Data Capture
- Kafka Event Streaming
- Debezium
Enterprise and Business Software Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Coordinated Fraud Rings via Link Analysis at a Neobank
You receive 90 days of account, login, and transaction data (around 1.2 million accounts, around 30 million events) plus a labeled set of 80 known fraud rings. Build a multi-rel…
- Graph Analysis
- Community Detection
- Link Analysis
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - CodeIntermediateNew
Teach a Warehouse Cobot from Operator Demonstrations
You receive a simulated UR5e cobot in PyBullet, plus 12 example demonstrations of two kitting sequences. Implement Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs — a classic LfD technique th…
- Learning From Demonstration
- Dynamic Movement Primitives
- Human Robot Interaction
Human-Robot Interaction - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Federated Learning Prototype Across Two Hospitals
Simulate two sites with non-IID data splits (one site skews older, the other younger). Implement FedAvg using Flower (or PySyft). Run for at least 50 communication rounds; repor…
- Federated Learning
- Fedavg
- Secure Aggregation
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
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