Overview
What this challenge is about.
Run an Alignment Probe on a Coding Assistant. Advanced challenge in research. Conducting rigorous research on real questions, earn a blockchain-verified cred...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Probe a 14B coding assistant for over-refusal, insecure code generation, and data leakage, and publish a model-card-ready red-team report.
This is not a research exercise. It is the work a researcher does to produce findings that withstand scrutiny. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates summarize papers and none who have produced original findings under expert review.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Design probe prompts for distinct alignment failure modes
- Apply consistent rubrics for hand-scoring LLM outputs
- Build a severity ranking that combines likelihood and impact
- Write a public-facing red-team report
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Large Language Models
Master · Generative Ai
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Large Language Models at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Red Teaming
Apply red teaming to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Alignment Evaluation
Apply alignment evaluation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Llm Evaluation
Apply llm evaluation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Prompt Design
Apply prompt design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Risk Assessment
Apply risk assessment to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Report Writing
Apply report writing to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Safety Researcher
Designing and running an alignment red-team is the core day-to-day of safety researchers at any frontier AI lab.
This challenge sharpens
- red-teaming
- alignment-evaluation
- risk-assessment
ML Researcher
Disciplined probe design and inter-rater scoring is the methodological foundation of empirical LLM research.
This challenge sharpens
- prompt-design
- llm-evaluation
- alignment-evaluation
Research Scientist
Writing a model-card-ready red-team report is exactly the publishable output expected of a junior research scientist at an AI lab.
This challenge sharpens
- report-writing
- red-teaming
- alignment-evaluation