Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
B2B SaaS PLG to Enterprise Transition Campaign
You are a junior marketing strategist at TaskFlow. Develop a communication plan that includes content marketing, targeted ads, and sales enablement materials. Success is measure…
- Brand Repositioning
- Content Marketing
- Sales Enablement
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Pivot or Persevere for a Food-Tech Startup
Your team has one week to analyze provided customer data (acquisition channels, churn rates, unit economics) and market research on the B2B office food market. Deliver a recomme…
- Data Analysis
- Unit Economics
- Business Model Canvas
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Structure a Series A Term Sheet for Flowt's Enterprise Pivot
Using the Flowt data room (flowt-data-room), the monthly metrics file (flowt-metrics-sample), and the comparable-deals benchmark (series-a-comparables), assess Flowt's business …
- Term Sheet Negotiation
- Saas Metrics
- Financial Modeling
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a Monte Carlo Risk Engine for a Quant Fund
Starting from the provided single-threaded C++ engine module (engine_scalar.cpp) and the provided benchmarking and equivalence specification (parallelization-spec), profile the …
- Parallel Algorithms
- Shared Memory
- Work Stealing
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Minimum Wage Impact on a Munich Bakery Chain
You are to produce a policy brief for the bakery's management. Using data on current wages, hours, and profit margins (provided in a simulated dataset), model the impact of the …
- Minimum Wage Analysis
- Labor Demand Modeling
- Cost Benefit Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Go-to-Market Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-up
You are a strategy consultant for TaskFlow. The company currently has 2000 self-serve customers (average $500/yr) and wants to target enterprise accounts (average $50k/yr). You …
- Decision Analysis
- Value Of Information
- Monte Carlo Simulation
Decision Analysis under Uncertainty - CodeIntermediateNew
Tune a Multicore Pipeline with NUMA-Aware Sharding
Receive the current worker (Rust, around 8,000 lines, uses rayon for its parallelism), the host (2-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 64 cores total, 384GB DDR5), and a benchmark query workl…
- Parallel Performance
- Numa
- Rust
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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
5G Network Slicing Strategy for a Smart-Port Pilot
Inventory the 3 workloads with concrete numbers (e.g., 'straddle carriers: 12 ms one-way latency, 99.999 percent availability, 50 Mbps uplink'). Design 3 5G network slices (eMBB…
- 5g Network Slicing
- Cellular Networks
- Qos Design
Wireless and Mobile Networks - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Performance Model for a Molecular-Dynamics Job
Build an analytical performance model covering: compute time per step (function of atom count + cutoff + interaction type), inter-rank communication cost (function of decomposit…
- Performance Modeling
- Gromacs
- Benchmark Design
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communication Trial Analysis
Load the anonymised dataset (logged packet RX/TX, PC5 sidelink RSSI, RSRP, SINR, vehicle trajectory, application latency for safety messages). Compute the canonical 3GPP Release…
- C V2x
- Pc5 Sidelink
- Wireless Performance Analysis
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Harden a Linux Container Runtime Against Privilege Escalation
Receive the pen-test report (with attack chain), the current cluster config (EKS 1.29, default Amazon Linux 2023 worker nodes), and 3 representative workload classes (web API, a…
- Os Security
- Linux Hardening
- Apparmor
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a UV-Preserving Mesh Simplification Pipeline for 3D-Scan-to-Web
Using the textured high-resolution meshes in the scan corpus (scan-corpus), the engineering constraints in the engineering brief (engineering-brief), the integration contract in…
- Geometry Processing
- Mesh Simplification
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Change Points in a Trading Platform's Latency Telemetry
You receive 90 days of per-millisecond latency telemetry across 12 services, plus an incident log of 14 known regressions and 22 known false-alarm-class events. Implement and tu…
- Change Point Detection
- Anomaly Detection
- Time Series Analysis
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Six-Month Post-Acquisition Cultural Integration Plan
Using the anonymized organizational profiles in the provided case file, the pre-integration culture and engagement survey results, and the chief executive's mandate memo, build …
- Cultural Analysis
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Communication
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Tune OpenMP Performance on a Memory-Bound Genomics Pipeline
Profile the existing pipeline at 1, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48, 64 threads using Intel VTune + Linux perf. Identify the bottlenecks (likely candidates: NUMA-unaware memory allocation, fal…
- Openmp
- Numa Awareness
- False Sharing
High-Performance and Scientific Computing - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Zephyr-Based Sensor Node for Industrial IoT
Set up a Zephyr workspace, configure the device tree for the provided nRF52840 + ADXL355 + custom BLE service. Implement: SPI driver for accelerometer at 4 kHz, on-device 1024-p…
- Zephyr Rtos
- Ble Protocol
- Low Power Design
Embedded Systems Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Secure a LoRaWAN Sensor Network for Cold-Chain Logistics
Read the LoRaWAN 1.0.x vs 1.1 spec (the network runs 1.0.3). Design the new key management: device-unique AppKey + NwkSKey, rotation every 90 days for the warehouse devices (the…
- Lorawan
- Wireless Security
- Key Management
Wireless and Mobile Networks - DesignIntermediateNew
Rate and Reduce Technical Debt in a Telecom OSS Codebase
Design a SQALE-based technical-debt rating and improvement proposal for Lumera Telekom's OSS. Using only the static-analysis findings export, the module inventory and rating gri…
- Sqale Method
- Technical Debt
- Code Quality
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Hierarchical Plans for an Aerospace Maintenance Crew Scheduler
You receive a synthetic week of 80 work orders with hierarchical decompositions, technician certifications, and shared-tool constraints. Implement an HTN planner (PyHOP or HDDL …
- Htn Planning
- Domain Modeling
- Constraint Handling
Automated Planning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare ML Compiler Stacks on a Vision Backbone
Take a frozen ResNet-50 (or similar) in ONNX. Compile and benchmark it via TensorRT on Jetson + GPU, ONNX Runtime on all three, OpenVINO on x86 CPU, and IREE on ARM if time allo…
- Ml Compilers
- Tensorrt
- Onnx
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving to Enterprise
Your task is to create a comprehensive IP strategy report for TaskFlow. This should include an audit of existing IP, recommendations for patenting key algorithms (if feasible), …
- Intellectual Property
- Patent Strategy
- Trade Secrets
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Build a Multi-Region Online Inference Service with SLAs
Design the topology: model artifact storage, regional inference fleets (Triton, vLLM, or BentoML), traffic router, observability stack (Prometheus + Grafana). Pick a rollout str…
- Inference Serving
- Multi Region Deployment
- Kubernetes
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