Senior Challenges
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- ResearchSeniorNew
Benchmark Reward-from-Feedback Methods on a Tabletop Pick-Place
You will use a Franka Panda arm in PyBullet on a 4-object pick-and-place task. For each of the three feedback methods, train a reward model and a downstream policy until converg…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Reward Learning
- Preference Comparison
Human-Robot Interaction - 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
Min-Cost Max-Flow for Cloud Workload Placement
Receive 30 days of anonymized placement requests (workload CPU/memory shape, affinity rules), zone capacity per day, and cross-zone bandwidth costs. Model the placement as a min…
- Network Flows
- Algorithm Analysis
- Graph Algorithms
Advanced Algorithms - StrategySeniorNew
Wealth Management and Philanthropy Strategy for a Family Office
You are a wealth management intern at the family office. Your task is to propose a comprehensive strategy covering asset allocation, risk management, and a philanthropic framewo…
- Asset Allocation
- Philanthropy Strategy
- Family Governance
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Validate a Foundation Model for Protein-Ligand Docking Acceleration
Pick 20 publicly available protein-ligand complexes from the PDBbind dataset (or similar public source). Use a published open-source structural foundation model (e.g., a Boltz-s…
- Foundation Model Evaluation
- Structural Biology
- Model Validation
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Harden a Container Supply Chain to SLSA Level 3
Audit the current build and deploy pipeline against the SLSA 1.0 specification. Identify SLSA-3 gaps (typically: provenance generation, hermetic builds, two-person review, signe…
- Supply Chain Security
- Slsa
- Sigstore
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Custom Cryptographic Protocol
Read the 22-page protocol spec, the Go reference implementation (around 4,000 lines), and the test vectors. Run a structured review covering: primitive choices (which cipher, MA…
- Applied Cryptography
- Cryptographic Audit
- Protocol Analysis
Applied Cryptography - AnalysisSeniorNew
Renewable Energy Investment Under Policy Uncertainty
You are a financial analyst at SunVest. The proposed solar farm has a capacity of 50 MW, construction cost €80M, and expected life 25 years. Key uncertainties: annual electricit…
- Real Options
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Stochastic Modeling
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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.
- ResearchSeniorNew
Investigate Why Our Generative Model Memorizes Training Data
Pick a small open-source diffusion model (e.g., a Stable-Diffusion-class community model trained on LAION-subset). Reproduce a published membership-inference + extraction probe …
- Generative Models
- Memorization Analysis
- Differential Privacy
Advanced Deep Learning - StrategySeniorNew
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 - CodeSeniorNew
Cache-Optimize a Graph-Analytics Kernel for a Social Platform
Receive the existing kernel (C++ + OpenMP, around 1,200 lines), the 1.8B-edge graph (CSR format, around 14GB), and target hardware (dual-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 384GB DDR5, 256MB …
- Cache Optimization
- Graph Algorithms
- Memory Hierarchy
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - AnalysisSeniorNew
Optimizing Renewable Energy Project Finance Model
You are a financial analyst at a renewable energy consultancy. SunPower Iberia has provided detailed cost estimates, PPA terms (20-year fixed price), and local tax incentives. Y…
- Project Finance
- Debt Scheduling
- Irr Npv
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- DesignSeniorNew
Multi-Region Failover for an Enterprise RAG Service
Design and prototype: (1) a primary-region deployment of the RAG service (vector DB + LLM inference + retrieval API), (2) a passive secondary region with replicated vector store…
- Multi Region Architecture
- Disaster Recovery
- Infrastructure As Code
Cloud Computing for Data and ML - AnalysisSeniorNew
Memory Consistency Model Audit of a Lock-Free Queue
Read the SPSC queue source (around 200 lines of C++). For each atomic operation, classify the required ordering and verify the chosen memory_order is sufficient under both x86-T…
- Memory Consistency
- Concurrency
- Lock Free Programming
Advanced Computer Architecture - 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
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - StrategySeniorNew
Reposition Mason & Co. to Win Younger Shoppers
Acting as the brand strategist Mason & Co. has retained, design a repositioning proposal for the chain using only the four supplied materials: the company case file, the custome…
- Brand Repositioning
- Customer Segmentation
- Retail Marketing
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Multi-Objective Dynamic Pricing Engine for CityRide
Acting as a data scientist on CityRide's pricing team, design and prototype a dynamic pricing engine that, given the live time, pickup zone, and supply-demand conditions, quotes…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Optimization
- Simulation
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design Eval Suite for a Multimodal Brainstorming Assistant
You receive (1) the assistant's current API, (2) a list of 6 launch user-personas, and (3) the product team's quality target ('beat the previous model on 4 of 6 personas'). Desi…
- LLM Evaluation
- Multimodal Evaluation
- Safety Evaluation
Generative AI - DesignSeniorNew
Design an End-to-End Encrypted Messaging Protocol for Clinicians
Using the Vireo current-architecture case file and the Signal protocol specifications listed in provided materials, design an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol that covers…
- Applied Cryptography
- Protocol Design
- Rust
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Feedback Culture for a Remote-First Sustainable Fashion Brand
Research best practices in feedback culture from business psychology (e.g., feedback orientation, psychological safety). Design a feedback system that includes tools, training, …
- Feedback Culture
- Psychological Safety
- Remote Work
Business and Industrial Psychology - CodeSeniorNew
Rebuild a Fair Single-Selfie Avatar Pipeline at NorthRoom
Using the prior-attempt postmortem (provided), the cohort manifest (provided), the FairFace public image set (provided link), the FLAME face-model resource (provided link), and …
- Digital Humans
- Geometry Processing
- 3d Rendering
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Production Model for Membership Inference Attacks
Use a black-box membership inference attack (e.g., the LiRA or shadow-model attack). You have query access to a sandboxed copy of the model + the original training data labels f…
- Membership Inference
- Privacy Attacks
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Skip List for a Time-Series Database
Using the baseline implementation and benchmark harness in the provided code module (baseline-skiplist-rs), design and build a lock-free skip list that replaces the mutex-guarde…
- Lock Free
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Rust Programming
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
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