Senior Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the senior level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- StrategySeniorNew
Design a Stakeholder Engagement Plan for SolarVent's Andalusia Solar Farm
Working as a team of three sustainability consultants hired by SolarVent, design a complete stakeholder engagement proposal for the Andalusia solar farm. Ground every recommenda…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Community Engagement
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Process Mining for Order-to-Cash in a Mid-Size Manufacturing Firm
Your task is to analyze the provided event log using process mining software (e.g., Disco, Celonis, or ProM). Discover the as-is process model, identify bottlenecks, rework loop…
- Process Mining
- Event Log Analysis
- Bpmn Modeling
Business Process Management - ResearchSeniorNew
Pretrain a Small Vision Transformer with Self-Supervised Learning
You receive 80,000 unlabeled 224x224 histology tiles plus 4,000 labeled tiles split into train/val/test. Pretrain a ViT-Small using a self-supervised method of your choice (DINO…
- Self Supervised Learning
- Vision Transformers
- Pytorch
Advanced Deep Learning - CodeSeniorNew
Profile and Cut Inference Cost on a Recommender at Scale
You receive (1) a frozen ONNX export of the production model, (2) a sample request trace of 24 hours at 1% sampling, and (3) a single A100-class GPU sandbox. Profile with NVIDIA…
- Gpu Profiling
- Model Quantization
- Inference Optimization
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- StrategySeniorNew
Shareholder Activism Defense for a SaaS Scale-Up
You are a senior strategy advisor to the CEO. Your task is to analyze the activist's demands, evaluate the company's governance vulnerabilities, and propose a response strategy.…
- Shareholder Activism
- Defense Strategy
- Board Dynamics
Corporate Governance - CodeSeniorNew
Detect Use-After-Free with Pointer Analysis in a C++ Codebase
Build the codebase with compilation database (compile_commands.json). Write a custom Clang static-analyzer checker (or extend an existing one) that flags resource-handle uses af…
- Pointer Analysis
- Static Analysis
- Use After Free
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Gender Pay Gap Audit at a Hamburg Tech Scale-up
Your task is to analyze the provided anonymized employee dataset (including salary, job level, tenure, performance rating, and gender) to determine if a gender pay gap exists af…
- Pay Gap Analysis
- Regression Analysis
- Blinder Oaxaca Decomposition
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Cost-Optimize a 24/7 LLM API Cluster
Profile the current usage (24-hour trace, per-team breakdown). Pick a cost-optimization mix from: time-based autoscaling, spot/preemptible instances with graceful drain, smarter…
- LLM Serving
- Autoscaling
- Ray
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Ethical Marketing Strategy for a Fast Fashion Retailer's Sustainability Line
Your task is to create a marketing campaign for EcoThreads that is transparent, culturally sensitive, and legally compliant. You must develop a communication strategy that highl…
- Ethical Marketing
- Sustainability Communication
- Cross Cultural Marketing
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Buying Behavior Analysis for a Dutch Sustainable Packaging Startup
Your task is to investigate the B2B buying process for sustainable packaging. You will design a semi-structured interview guide based on the buying center framework. Recruit and…
- B2B Marketing
- Buying Behavior
- Qualitative Research
Business-to-Business Marketing - ResearchSeniorNew
Concept-Activation Vectors for an Autonomous-Vehicle Perception Audit
You receive a trained semantic-segmentation model (8 classes including pedestrian, vehicle, road, sky), an internal validation set of 2,500 driving frames, and a small concept-i…
- Tcav
- Concept Explanations
- Interpretability
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Distributed Training Job for a 13B-Parameter Model
Decide whether to use Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP), Tensor Parallelism, Pipeline Parallelism, or a hybrid; justify against the 13B-param + 32-H100 setup. Calculate memory …
- Distributed Training
- Fsdp
- Pytorch
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- DesignSeniorNew
Circular Economy Strategy for a Fast Fashion Retailer
As a circular economy strategist, you must design a take-back program for TrendLoop's Amsterdam stores. Analyze customer behavior, logistics, and partnerships (with recyclers, r…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Innovation
- Logistics
Circular Economy and Sustainable Operations - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Bootloader with Secure OTA for a Medical Wearable
Implement using MCUboot as the secondary-image bootloader. Set up an offline signing pipeline (Ed25519 keys, HSM-backed for production). Implement the OTA client: BLE file trans…
- Mcuboot
- Secure Bootloader
- Firmware Signing
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Digital Transformation for a Traditional Swiss Watchmaker
You are a digital transformation lead at Horloge Suisse. Your task is to propose a digital platform strategy that enhances customer engagement and opens new revenue streams. Con…
- Digital Transformation
- Platform Ecosystems
- Blockchain
Digital Strategy and Platforms - ResearchSeniorNew
Frame Dependence in Investment Decisions for a Renewable Energy Fund
You are a behavioral finance analyst at GreenCap Partners. Your task is to audit past investment decisions for framing effects, then design a decision template that forces consi…
- Frame Dependence
- Prospect Theory
- Decision Framing
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Train a Manipulation Policy for Bin Picking with Imitation Learning
You receive a dataset of 500 teleop trajectories on the in-distribution part plus a held-out simulation environment with a never-seen part. Train an imitation-learning policy (D…
- Imitation Learning
- Manipulation
- Diffusion Policy
Advanced Robotics - AnalysisSeniorNew
Carbon Tax Impact on a Spanish Solar Farm
Calculate the current LCOE for the solar farm (including subsidies) and compare it to a representative gas plant. Then, model the effect of the carbon tax on both technologies, …
- Carbon Tax
- Lcoe Modeling
- Energy Markets
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Build an Impact Measurement Framework for a €10M Green Bond
Working only from the materials provided, design a complete impact measurement framework for Helios Grid Software's green bond. Examine the company dossier (HELIOS-DOSSIER) to u…
- Green Bond Principles
- EU Taxonomy
- Impact Kpis
Open coursework - 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 - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Market-Making Strategy for a New ETF
You are a quantitative analyst at Nova Capital. The new ETF (ticker: AIRO) will track 30 AI and robotics stocks with daily rebalancing. The initial AUM is $200 million. Your tas…
- Market Microstructure
- Etf Arbitrage
- Risk Management
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Long-Context QA Evaluation Benchmark for Legal Memoranda
You receive 25 anonymized legal memoranda (50-90 pages each) and 100 QA pairs whose answers are deliberately spread across the documents (25 in pages 1-20, 25 in pages 20-40, 25…
- Long Context Qa
- Benchmark Design
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Stand Up a Data Platform for a Mobility-Data Startup's First ML Model
As a 4-person team, build (1) a streaming ingestion path from a simulated telemetry source (Kafka + Python producer is fine); (2) a batch ETL job into a small warehouse (DuckDB …
- Data Engineering
- Streaming Ingestion
- Feature Store
AI Software Engineering Group Project - StrategySeniorNew
EcoThreads Exit: Recommend an Initial Public Offering or Acquisition
Using the EcoThreads company fact base and the public-versus-private market-conditions readout provided, build a recommendation for the investment committee on whether the fund …
- Exit Strategy
- IPO Readiness
- Mergers And Acquisitions
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