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Software engineers adding AI skills
You can already build and release software. You want to build with AI too.
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AI Engineering
Build AI apps that people can really use.
AI engineering is building useful apps on top of AI models, such as a search tool or an assistant that answers questions. You learn to build the app, test its answers and put it online. It covers generative AI, the kind of AI that writes text.
program sheet
- You become
- AI engineer
- Duration
- 1 to 6 months, depending on the program.
- Format
- Online and classroom
- You need first
- Working code in any language
- Start dates
- New batches through the year
- Job support
- 100% job enablement program
Overview
Who this program is for.
This program fits three kinds of learner. If you are not one of them, the list below shows a better place to start.
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Data scientists and data engineers
Your work runs on your own laptop. You want to build apps that run for others.
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Machine learning engineers
You can train a model. You want to build the full app around it.
Start somewhere else if
You have never written code.
Start with ReskillingYou want to learn how AI models work first.
See AI and Machine LearningYou already build AI apps and want customer work.
See Forward Deployed EngineerBy the end, you can
- Build a search tool that finds the right information (retrieval).
- Pick the right method for a task: better instructions, your own documents or extra training.
- Set up automatic tests that catch a mistake before users see it.
- Put an app online and keep it fast.
- Add monitoring that warns you when quality drops.
- Present a working app to people who do not code.
Skills covered
- Retrieval
- Finding the right information for the model: search, indexes and ranking.
- Generation
- Writing instructions for a model (prompts), letting it use tools and keeping its answers safe.
- Evaluation
- Test sets and automatic scoring, so you know each change made things better.
- Operations
- Putting the app online and watching its speed, cost and quality.
Tools and technologies
SampleReal-time projects
Projects you build yourself.
You build real-time projects: complete projects, made the way they are made at work. A working engineer checks each one.
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A document search tool with automatic tests
- Problem
- People cannot find the right answer in a large set of documents.
- Tools
- Search by meaning (embeddings), a search index, ranking, automatic tests
- Skills
- Search, testing, keeping costs low
- What you build
- A search tool with tests that run on every change
- Result
- You know how good the answers are and what each search costs
checked on: answer quality, cost per search
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An AI assistant that can take actions, with tests
- Problem
- A team wants an assistant that takes actions, and nobody knows when it is safe to use.
- Tools
- A language model that uses tools, structured answers, safety rules, a test suite
- Skills
- Designing tools, handling failures, testing
- What you build
- An assistant that passes a written set of tests
- Result
- A known failure rate and a plan for the rest
checked on: test coverage, behavior when things fail
Labs
Labs are where you practice and build each week.
How we teachSampleSample
Sample: proposed training details for review. Resources and completion rules are not confirmed yet.
- Environment
- Separate development and test apps, with automatic checks before release.
- Data
- Public or synthetic documents and test questions, checked for permission and privacy.
- Compute
- Local practice apps and optional hosted model services. Hosted access is not confirmed.
- Tools
- Python, FastAPI, Git, Docker and a search index for finding related information.
Mentors and support
Working engineers guide you.
Your mentors teach, check your work every week and help when you are stuck. After you join a job, technical support continues: a mentor keeps guiding you.
Mentors and technical supportJobs and certificates
The job you train for.
This program prepares you for a job as an AI engineer: the person who builds apps that use AI models. The next step after it is Forward Deployed Engineer.
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Data scientist
Finds answers in data and helps the business decide.
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Machine learning engineer
Trains AI models and tests how good they are.
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AI engineer
Builds apps that use AI models and keeps them running.
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Forward deployed engineer
Makes an AI product work inside a customer's company.
100% job enablement program
- Resume help
- We help you write a resume that shows your skills and your projects.
- Mock interviews
- You practice interview questions and get feedback before the real interview.
- Referrals to hiring companies
- We refer you to companies that are hiring for your role.
Certificates
You receive a Ticker Academy certificate when you complete a program.
Sample
Proposed completion checks: finish the required labs, show a working final project, fix review feedback and explain your work.
A question first?
Ask before you apply.
Write to us about this program. We reply by email and call only if you ask us to.
How to apply
Apply for AI Engineering.
About this program
People who want to build apps with AI models. If you can write code, AI engineering adds what an AI app needs: search, testing, hosting and monitoring. It suits software engineers, data scientists and machine learning engineers.
AI and Machine Learning teaches how models work and how to train and test them. AI Engineering teaches how to build an app around a model that already exists. Many people take one, then the other.
No. You need to write working code. The program teaches what you need to know about models as you use them.
Yes. Writing instructions for a model, giving it your documents, letting it use tools and testing its answers are the core of the program.
New batches start through the year. Apply and we send you the next start date for this program.
- Start dates
- New batches start through the year. You get the next date when you apply.
- Format
- Online and classroom
- Duration
- 1 to 6 months, depending on the program.
- Program details
- We send you the full program details when you apply.
Three short steps. We reply by email and call only if you ask us to.