Senior Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the senior level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- AnalysisSeniorNew
M&A Strategy: Should Precision Parts Acquire MicroGears?
Using the financial-data workbook and the industry benchmarks memo provided, value MicroGears Ltd. two ways — a discounted-cash-flow analysis and a comparable-transactions analy…
- Mergers And Acquisitions
- DCF Valuation
- Synergy Estimation
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Pipelined RISC-V (RV32I) Core for Automotive Telemetry
Implement a classic 5-stage RV32I pipeline in SystemVerilog. Include data-forwarding from EX/MEM and MEM/WB back to EX, a load-use stall, and branch resolution in EX with a 1-cy…
- Systemverilog
- Risc V
- Pipelining
Digital Systems Design - CodeSeniorNew
Build and Evaluate an LSM-Tree Storage Engine in Rust
Your analysis task is to complete the engine and produce an evidence-backed comparison of the two compaction strategies. Start from the 'starter-engine' Rust module and finish t…
- Lsm Tree
- Storage Engine
- Rust
Open coursework - 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
Advanced Computer Architecture 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
- DesignSeniorNew
Build an Edge MLOps Pipeline for a Smart-Agriculture Sensor
You receive a fleet simulator (1,000 simulated sensors with bandwidth + battery profiles), a model registry stub, and the current firmware's model-loading interface. Design and …
- Edge Mlops
- Ota Updates
- Model Versioning
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Coordinate a Fleet of Warehouse Robots
Implement a simulated warehouse grid with 80 robots solving a pick-and-deliver workload. Design a decentralized coordination protocol (recommend a contract-net or auction-based …
- Multi Agent Coordination
- Decentralized Algorithms
- Simulation
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Design a Lean and Culture Transformation for a Legacy Manufacturer
Working only from the materials you are given — a company dossier describing SteelCraft's history, structure, and sources of resistance; a shop-floor operations dataset of scrap…
- Lean Manufacturing
- Organizational Culture
- Change Management
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Self-Supervised Pretraining for a Pathology Foundation Vendor
You receive a public pathology dataset (about 80,000 unlabeled whole-slide-image patches plus a labeled 8,000-patch subtype-classification subset across 4 classes). Pretrain a R…
- Self Supervised Learning
- Medical Imaging
- Transfer Learning
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- DesignSeniorNew
Design a Raft Consensus Layer for Multi-Region Active-Active Replication
Using the engineering brief, the production fault profile, and the starter Go module declared in the provided materials, design and build a Raft-based consensus layer and prove …
- Distributed Consensus
- Raft
- Fault Tolerance
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Solve a POMDP for a Healthtech Diagnostic Pathway
You receive a simplified pathway: 5 possible underlying conditions, 8 possible diagnostic tests each with documented sensitivity and specificity, and an outcome payoff matrix fr…
- Pomdp Modeling
- Belief States
- Approximate Solvers
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - 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
ML Engineering and Production ML - 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
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Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- StrategySeniorNew
Sustainable Sourcing for a Fast-Fashion Retailer's Cotton Supply Chain
Your task is to develop a sustainable sourcing plan for the retailer's cotton. Constraints: cannot increase total material cost by more than 10%, must achieve 100% traceability …
- Sustainable Sourcing
- Supply Chain Traceability
- Ethical Sourcing
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
Trajectory Prediction Model for Urban Robotaxis
Use the Argoverse 2 motion-forecasting dataset (open access). Train an LSTM baseline + a transformer challenger (e.g., a small Wayformer or HiVT). Evaluate on minADE/minFDE (min…
- Trajectory Prediction
- Transformer Models
- Evaluation
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Conformal Prediction for a Healthcare Risk-Score
You receive a labeled dataset of about 25,000 patient encounters with the current risk-score's predictions and ground-truth 1-year outcomes. Implement and compare split conforma…
- Conformal Prediction
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Calibration
Statistical Machine Learning - 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 - ResearchSeniorNew
Diffusion-Policy Imitation for Bimanual Cooking Tasks
You receive 300 teleoperated demonstrations of a bimanual pour-and-stir task in a Robomimic-style simulator, deliberately including 2 valid solution modes per task (left-pour-ri…
- Diffusion Policies
- Imitation Learning
- Multimodal Action Distributions
Robot Learning - CodeSeniorNew
Build a Visual Search Prototype for Sustainable Fashion
Using the public fashion image dataset and the supplemental product metadata table provided, build an end-to-end visual search pipeline: extract a numeric fingerprint (an embedd…
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- Cnn
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Probabilistic Numerics for an ODE-Constrained Battery Model
You receive 12 months of charge/discharge cycle data for 50 battery packs from a delivery-van fleet, plus the existing single-particle ODE degradation model (Python). Use a prob…
- Probabilistic Numerics
- Bayesian Inference
- Ode Modeling
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Curriculum RL for a Simulated Drone Inspection Task
You receive a PyBullet-based wind-turbine inspection simulator with parameterizable wind, blade orientation, and sensor noise. Design a 3-stage curriculum: (1) hover near a stat…
- Ppo
- Curriculum Learning
- Deep Rl
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Scale an HPC MPI Workload Across a Multi-Node Cluster
Receive the MPI weather model (Fortran 2018 + C, ~22,000 lines), 4 weeks of strong-scaling logs (1 to 256 ranks), and access to AWS ParallelCluster with EFA-enabled c7gn instanc…
- Hpc Programming
- Mpi
- Parallel Performance
Advanced Concurrency and Parallel Computing - CodeSeniorNew
Train a Reinforcement-Learning Policy for Drone Obstacle Avoidance
You receive a custom Gymnasium drone-flight environment (provided), a baseline hand-engineered controller, and a target evaluation suite covering 4 obstacle densities. Train a P…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Ppo
- Robotics Simulation
Open coursework - 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
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