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AI Engineering Cohort

Learn AI Engineeringin 10 Weeks

A hands-on program for software engineers upskilling into FDE and AI engineering roles.

1st August → 4th October
9 PM - 10:30 PM IST, Sat & Sun

Trusted by 300 engineers in our first cohort from

Student Testimonials

As someone who hasn’t touched code for about 20 years, the class exercises helped me get back in the groove. I loved the pace at which we progressed and kudos to the teaching staff to bring many of us, including myself, on a solid footing.

Badri Rama
US

Badri Rama

Director Technology at AT&T, US

I haven’t just learned, but also deployed 2 major projects to production. I am thankful for the learning curve that I have gone through from the internals and fundamentals of AI to depth of Vector DB, RAG, Agentic architectures!

Rajul Babel
IN

Rajul Babel

Principal Engineer (AI) | Ex-Flipkart, Paytm, Amazon

Amisha Manjunath
IN

Amisha Manjunath

Software Engineer at Uber

What You Will Learn

Key Takeaways

AI skills that are essential and job-relevant.

Ship production-grade AI code

Build reliable AI: Agents, RAG, MCP, vector DBs including Evals, guardrails, and observability.

Land AI Engineering roles

Prove it with a real-world capstone portfolio hiring managers can actually see.

Become the AI expert on your team

Spot the right AI use cases and own the room; tradeoffs and decisions your team trusts.

Cohort Outline

Cohort Outline

A structured approach to AI implementation

Week 1

Week 1: Overview of LLMs & Training

Understand the fundamental building blocks of LLMs with tokenization, vectorization and attention.

  • Tokenisation, Vectorization, Attention

  • Pre-training and post-training

  • LLM Evaluations

  • End-to-end LLM lifecycle

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Week 2

Week 2: Quantization and Fine-Tuning

Learn how LLMs are quantized for fast processing, and how to fine-tune models to meet specific business requirements.

  • Fine-tuning - LoRA/QLoRA

  • Quantization - FP16, attention optimizations

  • When to fine-tune vs. when not to?

  • Fine-tuning an SLM for tool use

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Week 3

Week 3: Retrieval Augmented Generation

Learn chunking strategies, data ingestion, reranking, indexing, vector databases, and other techniques for retrieval augmented generation.

  • RAG: chunking strategies, data ingestion, reranker, indexer

  • Vector Embeddings, Vector Databases

  • Search Algorithms: ANN algorithms (HNSW, IVF)

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Week 4

Week 4: Hands-on RAG Implementation

An interactive project where students learn to code a RAG-based application and learn best practices for AI safety.

  • Reranking strategies, Query rewriting, HyDE

  • Input and output guardrails

  • Safety: Prompt injection, Intent classification

  • Coding Assignment: Build a RAG chatbot using API calls

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Week 5

Week 5: AI Agents and Tool Calling

Learn what an Agent is, how they are different from plain LLMs, Tool Calling, ReAct pattern, and Agent Orchestration.

  • LLM vs Agent vs Multiple Agents

  • ReAct pattern

  • Prompt Chaining, Orchestration, Routing

  • Coding Assignment: Customer support agent

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Week 6

Week 6: MCP, Context Engineering, Multi-Agent Systems

Code an AI Agent with MCP and memory, optimizing agentic flow.

  • Context Engineering

  • Memory in Agents

  • Model Context Protocol

  • Multi-Agents

  • Coding Assignment: MCP with memory and context optimization

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Week 7

Week 7: Evals, AI Applications in Production

Learn how Evals are used in production AI applications, and best practices for AI development.

  • Evals: How to avoid hallucinations with Evals

  • LLM as a Judge

  • Tradeoffs and design decisions

  • Fine-tuning vs Prompting vs RAG

  • Project: Build your own LLM Judge

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Week 8

Week 8: Agentic System Design

Learn how AI agents are scaled in distributed systems, and the system design of large-scale AI applications.

  • Agents at scale

  • MCP vs. API wrappers

  • Design tradeoffs

  • Best practices for agentic system design

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Week 9

Week 9: Image and Reasoning Models

Learn how multimodal models are trained with images and video, and the mechanism of diffusion-based models.

  • Multimodal models

  • CLIP

  • Video Models

  • CoT, RLHF

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Week 10

Week 10: Capstone Project

Create a production-grade AI project on a topic of your choice.

  • Recap important concepts

  • Problem selection

  • Metrics for evaluation

  • Feedback on completed projects

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Instructor

Your Cohort Instructor

Gaurav Sen

Gaurav Sen

Software Engineer | Founder, AIEngg

Gaurav Sen is a Software Engineer with experience designing and building AI systems at InterviewReady. He has also worked with companies like Docker and NeonDB in explaining how to build reliable AI systems. Gaurav has previously spoken at the University of Houston-Texas, IIT Gandhinagar, and BITS Hyderabad.

Investment

Cohort Investment

AI Engineering Cohort

$1,700

$1,750Limited Time Discount

Cohort Starts On Jul 31, 2026

20 Live Classes with Instructor

9 Weekly Networking Sessions

90 days of implementation support

Lifetime access to recordings

Certificate of completion

7-day money-back guarantee

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