The AI Engineering Bootcamp

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10 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Become an AI Engineer in the world's leading community for people who want to build, ship, and share production LLM applications 🏗️🚢🚀.

Industry-leading tooling, LLMs, & infra

Cursor
Claude
OpenAI
Hugging Face
LangChain

Course overview

Prototype agent apps and get them into Production. Ship fast and keep data safe.

🧑‍💻 ON CODING AS AN AI ENGINEER

- Do you code every day?

- If not, are you committed to coding every day as an AI Engineer?


If the answer to both of these questions is "No," this class is not for you.


💼 ON LEADING AI ENGINEERING TEAMS

- Do you manage a team of people that writes code every day?


If "Yes," this class might be for them.


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**KEY CURRICULUM UPDATES FOR COHORT 8**


🟢 [New Additions]

- Context Engineering from first principles

- A primary cohort use case that builds on itself and runs throughout the cohort

- Expansion of Model Context Protocol (MCP) content

- Using Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol to build and run two agents, one w/ MCP server and one to mimic a human using our agent

- Dedicated Guardrails session, from best-practices to implementation


🔴 [Deprecated]

- Explicit teaching of code and coding agents (in favor of a more implicit approach of using Claude Code regularly)

- Computer Use agents (in favor of A2A and operating an Agent in production)

- Contextual Retrieval

- Hugging Face smol agents


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OUR COMMUNITY

🏗️ 🚢🚀 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 🏗️, Ship 🚢, Share 🚀!


This is the secret to success in a 21st-century workforce, and you will live this every class, every week of the cohort!


🧑‍🤝‍🧑 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.


🙋 WHAT ARE THE PREREQUISITES

You must be familiar with Python programming, prompt engineering, and data science. Learn more about prerequisites here: https://bit.ly/aie7-prereqs


🙋 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:


📜 Curriculum & Detailed Schedule: https://bit.ly/aie7-curr

🤩 Demo Day Videos (from cohort 5): https://bit.ly/aie5-demos

🎤 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 Makerspace’s AI Engineering Bootcamp (as a non-technical person)": https://bit.ly/aie-20tips


💰 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 HAS TAKEN THIS COURSE

Since its launch in January 2024, over 250 people have taken the course! The most successful participants have been Software Engineers and Developers or Data Scientists and Machine Learning/AI Specialists, indicating a focus on analytics, modeling, and artificial intelligence.


Here is a list of companies whose employees have already taken the course:


Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle, Bloomberg, Deloitte, Atlassian, SAP, Infosys, ServiceNow, Shopify, NetApp, Autodesk, Jio Platforms, JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), Walmart, Chevron, Expedia, NTT Data, Ernst & Young, Fannie Mae, National Grid, State Farm, USAA, BMO, TD Bank, Mercer, Kiewit, BP, CVS, Safran, Appian


The most important thing for anyone taking the course is to take it seriously. This advanced course requires commitment, debugging, resilience, and tenacity. These personal attributes matter much more than your current company or job title.


Whether you're coming from a software engineering or data science background, to be a world-class AI Engineer, you'll need to know both. This class will teach you the lego blocks of building production-grade LLM applications software as an AI-Assisted Developer. This is where your journey begins!


Top 10 direct quotes from Cohort 5


“One of the best lessons I’ve ever had. The instructor’s level of expertise is high and his communication is extremely easy to understand. I have grasped all the concepts.”

“This session was pure gold, seeing actual applications, really nice!”

“I am having lots of fun and learning. LOVE THE ENERGY! Let’s go.”

“The breakout rooms are absolutely fantastic. Peer Supporters are bae.”

“The breakout rooms are just so good – easily sets it apart from 90% of other courses out there.”

“It was a great session today. Super helpful and getting clearer. Amazing job everyone. Love this!!!!”

“I have deployed and built a number of applications right from the first sessions of the course. Knowledge also helps me in self-study and research.”

“This class was worth every dollar, thank you guys!”

“Thank you for an amazing ride! <3”

“I complained last time about the breakout rooms not being long enough and the lectures being too long. This time I think the ratio was GLORIOUS PERFECTION!”


Top 10 direct quotes from Cohort 6


“I am grateful to be part of this cohort… Huge thanks to all of you!!!”

“I will be taking a lot of classes async… The recordings are posted so promptly and the Discord conversations stay active — exactly what you’d expect from a high-quality course!”

“I feel we’re the luckiest group to have Don and Laura in the same cohort — different styles, complementary strengths, and both incredibly patient.”

“Peer groups are awesome for discussion — the chats were fire.”

“Program is great. It moves fast, but I’d feel ripped off if I were too comfortable!”

“Great class, like always — really enjoying the cohort so far.”

“Shout out to everyone in AIM, including the peer supporters. What a great (but challenging) experience!”

“The sessions are going great. I’m learning a lot, and the peer supporters (Andre & Nithin) are so knowledgeable.”

“Mike is doing an excellent job — we’re really grokking the content in the breakouts!”

“Andre is amazing — super knowledgeable and incredibly patient in explaining everything to us.”

Who is this course for

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Software engineers and developers who want to build, deploy, operate, and improve LLM apps in production environments.

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Data scientists and ML engineers/specialists who want to build, deploy, operate, and improve LLM apps in production environments.

What you’ll get out of this course

🧑‍💻 Become an AI-Assisted Developer

A vibe coder won't take your job. An AI-assisted developer will.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Peer-Supported Live Coding

Work with certified AI Engineers in dedicated small Journey groups to discuss and code throughout the cohort!

🤩 Demo Day!

You will present a unique project live to a cohort of your peers and the public!

🕴️ industry Leading Curriculum

We're always at The LLM Edge  with the latest concepts, code, tools, techniques, and best practices!

💼 Hiring Opportunities

Certified AI Engineers get direct access to job opportunities from our network

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from "Dr. Greg" Loughnane & Chris "The Wiz 🪄" Alexiuk in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 9—Sep 14

    Live Session 1: 🤖 Introduction & Vibe Check

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    Live Session 2: 🗃️ Embeddings and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

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Week 2

Sep 15—Sep 21

    Live Session 3: 🚀 Industry Use Cases & End-to-End RAG

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    Live Session 4: 🔗 Production-Grade RAG with LangGraph

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Week 3

Sep 22—Sep 28

    Live Session 5: 🕴️ Production-Grade Agents with LangGraph

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    Live Session 6: 🔄 Multi-Agent Applications

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Week 4

Sep 29—Oct 5

    Live Session 7: 🪄 Synthetic Data Generation for Evaluation

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    Live Session 8: 📊 RAG and Agent Evaluation

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Week 5

Oct 6—Oct 12

    Live Session 9: 🐕 Advanced Retrieval Strategies for RAG Apps

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    Live Session 10: 🧠 Advanced Agentic Reasoning

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Week 6

Oct 13—Oct 19

    Live Session 11: 🧑‍🎓 Certification Challenge

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    Live Session 12: 🤖 OpenAI Agents SDK

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Week 7

Oct 20—Oct 26

    Live Session 13: 🌀 Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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    Live Session 14: 🚢 Deploying Agents to Production

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Week 8

Oct 27—Nov 2

    Live Session 15: 🔀 Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol & Agent Ops

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    Live Session 16: 🛤️ Guardrails & Caching

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Week 9

Nov 3—Nov 9

    Session 17: 🔓 Open-Source Model Endpoints

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    Session 18: 🏢 On-Prem Agent Applications

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Week 10

Nov 10—Nov 13

    Live Session 19: 🎤 Demo Day Dress Rehearsal

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    Live Session 20: 📸 Demo Day & Graduation Ceremony

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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.

Average of 15 self-assessed AIE learning transformations in Cohort 5 across 9 dims on a 0-10 scale.

Hear directly from Cohort 6 about their transformations!

Here's what Cohort 6 members shared during Graduation!

Cohort 6 Student Highlight - Dr. Budisic

Check out the original post and follow Marko at bit.ly/aie6-budisic

Check out the original post and follow Marko at bit.ly/aie6-budisic

Cohort 6 Student Highlight - Mo Afzaal

Read more at https://thedataguy.pro/blog/2025/05/build-ship-share/

Read more at https://thedataguy.pro/blog/2025/05/build-ship-share/

Cohort 6 Student Highlight - Geeta Chaudhry

Check ou thte original post and follow Geeta at bit.ly/aie6-chaudhry

Check ou thte original post and follow Geeta at bit.ly/aie6-chaudhry

Free resource

📅 Detailed Course Schedule & Curriculum - Updated for Cohort 8!


Get all the details about tools we'll use and relevant papers for each project assignment, how to become AI-Makerspace Certified, and prerequisite learning pathways.

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Course schedule

4-8 hours per week

  • Tuesdays & Thursdays

    4-6 PM PT

    * 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!

  • Instructor Office Hours

    Weekly


  • Peer Supporter Office Hours

    Weekly

    We typically cover 6-7 days per week with 1 or more office hours held by peer supporters!

Free resource

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!


Get access to lectures, code repositories, and more! 


We highly recommend all students taking The AI Engineering Bootcamp to go through this material first!


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.


Not required, mind you, but super helpful.


Get started building, shipping, and sharing for free now 👇

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LLM Foundations, a FREE 5-Day Email Course

Do you want to really understand how LLMs work "under the hood," from concepts to code


Everyone drives cars, but how many people really know how the engine works?


Whether you're looking to nail AI Engineer interviews or lead an entire AI Engineering team, positioning yourself the LLM expert in your context is just five days away.


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Hear from alumni, demo day judges, hiring partners, event partners, and community members!

        This course is truly the best out there; I've learned a ton, and it's already helping me immensely at work. It's proving invaluable for hiring for my open Gen AI Engineer positions and guiding team members.
Nishanth Nair

Nishanth Nair

Director of Engineering @ Visa
        I thought this cohort-based approach was the way to set accountability, and boy did you guys set a high bar! We had a very fast-paced 7 weeks, and the accountability did make it great. It all comes together at the end and makes sense.
André Fichel

André Fichel

CTO, Akad Seguros, ex-Apple | ex-Amazon
        I didn't know what Google Colab was before I joined this course! I was so new to this domain. For an upcoming NetApp Hackathon I'm proposing to fine-tune LLMs, so you can see the difference 7 weeks has made! It's already created buzz at my workplace ... it was fun learning hands-on rather than textbook or 'strategy for AI implementation' stuff!
Monalisha Singh

Monalisha Singh

Member of Technical Staff, NetApp; Software Engineer | Innovator | Women in Tech Advocate | Cloud & AI Enthusiast | Mentor
        I'm amazed by the community, the product, and the value delivered to students. Most educational courses only give you knowledge but don't push you to build. AIM has perfected learning through building. I truly enjoyed every moment of this course. "You're gonna suffer but you're gonna be happy about it" from Harry Potter sums it up. Thanks!
Savrin Darash

Savrin Darash

Data Scientist @ CVS Health
        Bravo for successfully finding the right balance between assignments, quizzes, and activities to complete in the notebooks. It's very well thought out and balanced! I joined the cohort 1 Demo Day and said to myself, "WOW this is what I need!" Let's join cohort 2!
Julien de Lambilly

Julien de Lambilly

Lead AI Architect, Digit8 Group SA; Full-Stack Developer and Data Scientist
        You create a safe place to learn. To become somebody who is a doer, not just a knower, it means that you've got to BELIEVE that you can do it. And that's what this community does...It gives me the ability to believe in this, and to believe that 'I'm going to be DOING this!' and that's the best part.
Mike Chrabaszcz

Mike Chrabaszcz

Emerging Technology Researcher @ Crabash; Engineering Leader - People: Team Building; Process: Optimization; Product: Mobile, AI, IoT
        Having looked for quite a while to find a boot camp or a course that spoke to me, I found you guys and checked out your YouTube - that's what showed me that y'all were legit and of course, once I've joined the community it's just been amazing.
Yohan Mathew

Yohan Mathew

Responsible AI & Tech | Ex-entrepreneur, large & small orgs, non-profits
        Your team [does] a really good job - even better than us at explaining how RAGAS (RAG ASessment) metrics work!
Jithin James

Jithin James

RAG ASessment (RAGAS) Co-Founder and Maintainer (YC W24 Batch)
        I saw a lot of great projects during Demo Day. I saw a lot of people solving real problems. Some really solid foundations were built up here. My advice, though, is to get weirder with it. Things are moving so fast that evaluating what's real and what's crazy is really difficult right now.
Charles Goddard

Charles Goddard

Senior Research Engineer @ Arcee.ai, Creator of mergekit, ex-Apple, ex-NASA
        Over the past 12 months, I have been engrossed in two disparate journeys that have transformed my life- motherhood and professional development in the AI space. ... These certificates [LLM Engineering / AI Engineering] are a testament to the sweat, tears, and, above all, the unwavering support from AI Makerspace who stood by me every step of the
Anjela Milani McGraw

Anjela Milani McGraw

USMC Veteran ◆ AI/ML Automation ◆ AI Consultant
        /imagine hogwarts, but AI engineering, with ultra-futuristic halls and all the moving images on the wall are generated by Sora. --ar 16:9...That's AI Makerspace!
Michael Santo Domingo

Michael Santo Domingo

Software Engineer @ Zipline App
        The AI Engineering was an absolutely phenomenal bootcamp that had me working as hard on my projects as I had been in the toughest period of my PhD studies. Also similarly to that time, I was surrounded by brilliant minds. It really brought back that magical feeling of sweat, tears and great happiness :)
Debora Andrade, Ph.D.

Debora Andrade, Ph.D.

AI Consultant, Oxford Ph.D., Imperial College London Postdoc
        It is the "state of the art" bootcamp. The best of the best, ever. Thank you AIM Team, you are precious. I would challenge you to be even better, but in all honesty, you have set a standard of excellence that surpasses expectations. The impact you're making is truly invaluable.
Bikram Maharjan

Bikram Maharjan

Aspiring AI Engineer, ex-PayPal
        The community that got me on my new path will always be very close to my heart. I got the amazing connection of my CTO and the rest of the team through AI Makerspace. 
Katrien Cruz Grobler

Katrien Cruz Grobler

Founder, AI KAT, ex-Vodafone, ex-Unilever, ex-Reckitt Benckiser
        Everything I know about AI Engineering I learned from AI Makerspace.
Harpreet Sahota

Harpreet Sahota

🤖 Generative AI Hacker | 👨🏽‍💻 AI Engineer | 👷🏽‍♀️ Developer Advocate | Building🏗️-Shipping🚢-Sharing🚀
        A big shout-out to the amazing team at AI Makerspace for their unparalleled support and guidance throughout this transformative experience. For my project, I [developed] SafeMate, a POC LLM app designed to enhance safety and security. With the support of Telice, we are committed to evolving SafeMate from a concept into a fully operation solution.
Cesáreo González Alvarez

Cesáreo González Alvarez

CEO & Board Member @ Telice; Innovation and digital transformation | Railways | Tunnels | Technology
        I cannot say enough good things about AI Makerspace. I would absolutely recommend this course to a friend or a coworker. I am very excited to be a part of the AIM community ongoing.
Erin Lyman

Erin Lyman

Founder @ Code Sprinkles, Consultant & Research Fellow @ FemHealth Insights
        "We value experience in AI Makerspace programs and are keen to identify individuals who have engaged in such specialized training."
Ravi Chandu Ummadisetti

Ravi Chandu Ummadisetti

Generative AI Technical Product Lead
        Check out our 4.9/5-star rating (23 responses) from our 4-week LLM Ops Bootcamp. We started teaching RAG and Agents here!
LLM Ops: LLMs in Production

LLM Ops: LLMs in Production

maven.com/aimakerspace/llmops
Free resource

Learn LLM Ops for Free, Async!

Access all of the concepts and code directly on YouTube to start building, shipping, and sharing with LLM Ops!


**Note: This is from cohort 1 which we ran between August and September of 2023**



  1. Build complex apps with LLM Ops frameworks including LangChain and LlamaIndex.
  2. Understand LLM product development methods, from prompting to retrieval and beyond.
  3. Build, deploy, evaluate, and operate your own end-to-end production RAG system.

Get the concepts and code!

Meet your instructor

"Dr. Greg" Loughnane

"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.


👨‍🏫 Learn with us free on YouTube!

👨‍💼 Connect with me on LinkedIn!

Chris "The Wiz 🪄" Alexiuk

Chris "The Wiz 🪄" 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!


👨‍🏫 YouTube: AI Makerspace Official, My Personal

👨‍💼 Connect with me on LinkedIn!

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Join an upcoming cohort

The AI Engineering Bootcamp

Cohort 8

$3,499

Dates

Sep 9—Nov 14, 2025

Application Deadline

Sep 8, 2025

Build 🏗️, ship 🚢, and share 🚀 like a legend.

Build 🏗️, ship 🚢, and share 🚀 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

You’ll 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 🤩.

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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Join an upcoming cohort

The AI Engineering Bootcamp

Cohort 8

$3,499

Dates

Sep 9—Nov 14, 2025

Application Deadline

Sep 8, 2025

$3,499

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