The AI Engineering Bootcamp
4.9ย (59)
10 Weeks
ยทCohort-based Course
Build and evaluate RAG and agentic reasoning apps with the best tooling and community for people who want to build, ship, and share ๐๏ธ๐ข๐.
This course is popular
4 people enrolled last week.
The AI Engineering Bootcamp
4.9ย (59)
10 Weeks
ยทCohort-based Course
Build and evaluate RAG and agentic reasoning apps with the best tooling and community for people who want to build, ship, and share ๐๏ธ๐ข๐.
This course is popular
4 people enrolled last week.
Industry-leading tooling, LLMs, & infra
Course overview
Prototype agentic apps and get them into Production. Ship fast, then scale.
Our Community
๐๏ธ ๐ข๐ AI Makerspace is on a mission to create the world's leading community for people who want to build, ship, and share production LLM applications.
Welcome! We invite you to join our close-knit AI Makerspace community on YouTube (learn live weekly with us for free at 10 AM PT on Wednesdays!) or Discord to start building, shipping, and sharing with us today!
https://aimakerspace.io/
Our Course
The AIE Bootcamp is truly a bootcamp. It's hard. It's a grind. But it will transform you! It will get you comfortable thriving at "The LLM Edge" and beyond. Our students don't just learn; they transform!
Plus, every cohort culminates in a live Demo Day experience! Many of our graduates have launched entirely new startups based on their demo day presentations!
To hear our student's stories and for a quick glance at all the tools you'll master, check out the following link now!
https://aimakerspace.io/the-ai-engineering-bootcamp/
Our Ethos
Build ๐๏ธ, Ship ๐ข, Share ๐!
This is the secret to success in a 21st-century workforce, and you will live this every class, every week of the cohort!
๐งโ๐คโ๐ง Specifically, you will get hands-on experience building and sharing complex LLM and agentic applications weekly, receiving constant feedback during live sessions and through your homework submissions via instructors, peer supporters, and your fellow cohort members.
๐ What are the prerequisites?
You must be familiar with Python programming, prompt engineering, and data science. However, most of all, you must be driven to succeed in Generative AI in 2025.
๐ How will I know if it's right for me?
If you're unsure if this course be a fit for you, you'll find tons of resources on this page to help you decide, including:
๐ Curriculum & Detailed Schedule: https://bit.ly/aie6-curr
๐คฉ Demo Day Videos: https://bit.ly/best-of-demo-day
๐ค Student Interview Videos: https://aimakerspace.io/category/transformations/
Here are a few long-form pieces of writing about the student experience:
- Richard Gower, Cohort 3: https://bit.ly/aie-cohort-3-reflections
- Ches Roldan's "20 Tips to Survive AI Makerspaceโs AI Engineering Bootcamp (as a non-technical person)": https://bit.ly/aie-20tips
๐ฐ How much do the tools cost?
Don't worry! This course is for the GPU-poor among us! This course adapts to industry-standard open-source software and compute hardware and is cloud platform agnostic. We strive to keep your additional costs low (below ~$100 total). Check Q&A for more info!**
Who is this course for
01
Data scientists and machine learning engineers aiming at becoming full-stack AI practitioners.
02
Software engineers who want to build complex LLM and agentic applications.
03
Technical product managers or execs who guide their teams on what to build, why, and how.
What youโll get out of this course
๐คฉ Demo Day!
You will present a unique project live to a cohort of your peers and the public!
๐ผ Hiring Opportunities
Certified AI Engineers get direct access to job opportunities from our network
๐งโ๐คโ๐ง Peer-Supported Live Coding
Work with certified AI Engineers in dedicated small Journey groups to discuss and code throughout the cohort!
๐ค 1:1 Career Coaching
Student success will help you achieve your goals before and after certification!
๐งโ๐ป Prompt Engineering
Leverage in-context learning as an engineer for prototyping, RAG applications, agents, and more!
๐ Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Best-practice RAG tooling, techniques, and best-practices exist now. Learn them!
๐ด๏ธ Agents
Build complex LLM applications capable of reasoning, action, and working with external tools!
โ๏ธ Fine-Tuning
Efficiently fine-tune LLM and embedding models to adapt to your task or domain!
๐ค Reasoning & Test-Time Compute
From o1 to agentic conversation programming, we'll cover the latest in LLM reasoning and frameworks.
๐ Evaluation
Instrument agent applications for metrics-driven development to show your quality improvements quantiatively.
๐ Observability
Debug, test, and monitor applications built using any leading LLM framework!
๐ Inference Optimization
Learn the leading tools and quantization techniques to accelerate inference for the latency and throughput you need.
๐ข On-Prem Serving
Learn to efficiently leverage resources so you can keep your data super private in the years to come.
This course includes
Interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
127 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
18 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Mavenโs guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
The AI Engineering Bootcamp
Course syllabus
Week 1
Live Session 1: ๐ค Introduction & Vibe Check
Live Session 2: ๐๏ธ Embeddings and Retrieval Augment Generation (RAG)
Week 2
Live Session 3: ๐ Industry Use Cases & End-to-End RAG
Live Session 4: ๐ Production-Grade RAG with LangChain
Live Deep Dive Session 1: ๐คย Beyond ChatGPT: Baselining Today's LLM Applications
Week 3
Live Session 5: ๐ด๏ธ Production-Grade Agents with LangGraph
Live Session 6: ๐ Multi-Agent Applications
Live Deep Dive Session 2: โจ๏ธย Beyond Git: Version Control is More Than Git
Week 4
Live Session 7: ๐ช Synthetic Data Generation for Evaluation
Live Session 8: ๐ RAG and Agent Evaluation
Weekly Deep Dive: ๐ตย Beyond Vibe Checks
Week 5
๐ค Fine-Tuning Open-Source Embedding Models
โ๏ธ Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs for Reasoning
Weekly Deep Dive: ๐ชตย Beyond Logging
Week 6
Week 7
๐๏ธ Advanced Retrieval for RAG Applications
๐ด๏ธ Advanced Agentic Reasoning
Deep Dive: ๐ค Beyond Pitching: Articulate Business Impact
Week 8
๐ Practical RAG: Production Endpoints
๐ Practical RAG: Deploying Apps to APIs and Operating in Prod
Deep Dive: ๐ขย Beyond Prototypes: Cloud Provider Comparison
Week 9
๐ข On-Premise Agents
๐ฝ Inference and GPU Optimization
Deep Dive: ๐ย Beyond Demand: Reliable and Secure Delivery at Scale
Week 10
๐ค Demo Day Dress Rehearsal
๐ธ Demo Day
4.9ย (59 ratings)
What students are saying
Your AI Engineering Learning Transformation Awaits!
Average of 15 self-assessed AIE learning transformations in Cohort 5 across 9 dims on a 0-10 scale.
๐ Detailed Course Schedule & Curriculum - Updated for Cohort 6!
Understand how everything comes together in the course!
Key updates from the LLM Edge include: Cursor and uv as best-practice tools, agent evaluation, build-your-own Deep Research application, Train your own DeepSeek-R1-type Reasoning model
Structural updates include: Better Demo Day support, advanced builds for every assignment, Journey groups and additional networking opportunties
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Course schedule
4-8 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
4::00 - 6:00 PM PT
- W1: April 1st, 3rd
- W2: April 8th, 10th
- W3: April 15th, 17th
- W4: April 22nd, 24th
- W5: April 29th, May 1st
- W6: May 6th, 8th
- W7: May 13th, 15th
- W8: May 20th, 22nd
- W9: May 27th, 29th
- W10: June 3rd, 5th
* All sessions are recorded!
Weekly Programming Projects
2-4 hours per week
Each class period, we will get hands-on with Python coding homework!
Demo Day!
Thursday, June 5th at 4:00 PM PT
Open to the public - Friends, family, coworkers, and bosses welcome!
AIE1 Demo Day Playlist & LinkedIn Event
Instructor Office Hours
Weekly
Dr. Greg: Thursdays @ 8 AM PT
The Wiz ๐ช: Fridays @ 3 PM PT
Peer Supporter Office Hours
Weekly
We typically cover 6-7 days per week with 1 or more office hours held by peer supporters!
International-Friendly Weekly Deep Dive Sessions
Varies
Tuesdays at 9 AM PT: For International (EMEA) students, a Certified AI Engineer will hold weekly 60-minute deep dive sessions!
LLM Engineering, Cohort 3 Full Course ~ a $1999 value
Master language models and embedding models through training, fine-tuning, aligning, distilling, and merging transformer architectures!
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Why? It turns out that it's super helpful to understand what's happening inside of the LLM when you try to build complex applications with them.
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Access all of the concepts and code directlyย on YouTubeย to start building, shipping, and sharing with LLM Ops!
**Note: This is from cohort 1 which we ran between August and September of 2023**
- Build complex apps with LLM Ops frameworks including LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Understand LLM product development methods, from prompting to retrieval and beyond.
- Build, deploy, evaluate, and operate your own end-to-end production RAG system.
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Meet your instructor
"Dr. Greg" Loughnane
Co-Founder & CEO @ AI Makerspace
In 2023, we created the LLM Engineering: The Foundations and LLM Ops: LLMs in Production courses on Maven!
From 2021-2023 I led the product & curriculum team at FourthBrain (Backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund) to build industry-leading online bootcamps in ML Engineering and ML Operations (MLOps).
Previously, I worked as an AI product manager, university professor, data science consultant, AI startup advisor, and ML researcher; TEDx & keynote speaker, lecturing since 2013.
๐จโ๐ซ Learn with us free on YouTube!
๐จโ๐ผ Connect with me on LinkedIn!
Chris "The Wiz ๐ช" Alexiuk
Co-Founder & CTO @ AI Makerspace
In 2023, we created the LLM Engineering: The Foundations and LLM Ops: LLMs in Production courses on Maven!
During the day, I work as a Developer Advocate for NVIDIA. Previously, I worked with Greg at FourthBrain (Backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund) on MLE and MLOps courses, and on a few Deeplearning.ai events!
A former founding MLE and data scientist, these days you can find me cranking out Machine Learning and LLM content!
My motto is "Build, build, build!", and I'm excited to get building with all of you!
๐จโ๐ซ YouTube: AI Makerspace Official, My Personal
๐จโ๐ผ Connect with me on LinkedIn!
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Build ๐๏ธ, ship ๐ข, and share ๐ like a legend.
Active hands-on learning at the edge
We teach concepts AND code. Never one or the other. AI has accelerated so quickly that anyone who's been a manager the last few years has not yet seen the code for themselves.
Project-based and community-driven
Youโll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams. We can't wait to see what you build, ship, and share on Demo Day projects ๐คฉ.
Find fellow travelers for your journey
Join a community of like-minded AI practitioners who are all in on Generative AI, and who are heading down the same career path as you are.
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AIE6
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