Theseus AI Lab

Cohort 1

By the end of this course, you’ll transition from a software engineer to a confident AI engineer—able to identify the right problems, design

AI Engineer & Consultant for F-500 firms

Qualcomm

Wipro

Sujeet Mishra

AI Engineer | Entrepreneur | AI Consultant & Trainer for Fortune-500

AI/ML | Search | Ex-Microsoft, Yahoo

Apple

Microsoft

Yahoo

Prasenjit Mukherjee

Adjunct Faculty | Quantum ML & Big Data | Ex-Microsoft, Yahoo | IIT Madras

For software engineers, moving into AI engineering is not just about learning new tools—it’s a mindset shift.Over the past year, we’ve worked with engineering teams, from Fortune 500 companies to unicorn startups, helping them adopt AI-native and agent-based systems. One pattern shows up repeatedly: engineers don’t struggle because they can’t build, but because AI systems behave very differently from deterministic software.⚙️ Engineers must learn how to design, evaluate, and operate probabilistic systems, reason about failures and trade-offs, and think end-to-end—from use-case identification to production and scale.Many engineers hesitate because they believe AI engineering requires deep ML or statistics expertise. In reality, modern AI engineering is about system design, evaluation, observability, and production readiness—skills engineers already have but need to apply in a new context.🚀 This course provides a practical 8-week roadmap to make that transition by building and extending a real, production-grade agentic system.By the end, you won’t just understand AI systems—you’ll think and operate like an AI engineer.For queries, write to us: ai-education@theseuslab.ai

An 8-week roadmap for software engineers to become production-ready AI engineers

Use LLMs to 10x day-to-day engineering productivity

Design and build agentic systems using LangChain/LangGraph

Build reliable agentic systems by designing for evaluation and observability

Take AI ideas from use-case discovery to production and scale

Apply everything you learn to a real, end-to-end capstone project

Basic understanding of SDLC concepts like databases, APIs, frontend/backend systems, and servers

Familiarity with Software Engineering Fundamentals

Some programming experience, even if not recent—or willingness to spend ~8 hours pre-course to learn Python (we will provide resources)

Prior Programming Exposure (or Willingness to Ramp Up)

Openness to learning, experimenting, and thinking differently

Curiosity and Willingness to Experiment

Software engineers looking to transition into AI engineering roles and build production-grade AI systems

AI engineers and data science professionals who want to get a hands-on experience of building, evaluating and scaling agentic AI applications

Product managers and Tech leaders seeking a practical, system-level view of how production-ready AI applications are designed and shipped

AI Engineering 101 for Software Engineers

Understand how probabilistic AI systems behave, fail, and are evaluated differently than deterministic software

How AI systems differ from traditional software

Learn the modern AI stack, the roles across its layers, and how skill expectations shift from software to AI engineering

The modern AI stack and AI roles

Understand a clear 8-week roadmap to close skill gaps and transition from software engineering into AI engineering roles

An 8-week roadmap to transition into AI engineering

See how engineers use agents, MCP, and tool calling to build applications in minutes instead of hours.

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