Software Development & Engineering

AI Engineer

Don’t just use AI. Build useful systems with it.

What you’ll work on

  • Build AI features such as chatbots, RAG pipelines, and intelligent automation for client products
  • Work with LLM APIs, prompting, evaluation, and cost considerations
  • Integrate AI services into real web and mobile applications
  • Investigate how AI systems behave, where they fail, and how they can be improved
  • Work with guardrails, evaluation, and monitoring when deploying AI functionality

Professional capabilities you’ll develop

  • Turning a product requirement into an appropriate AI solution
  • Working with LLM APIs and prompts
  • Designing and understanding RAG systems
  • Evaluating AI outputs instead of blindly trusting them
  • Thinking about reliability, cost, security, and failure cases
  • Integrating AI into existing applications
  • Understanding the difference between an AI demo and a production feature

Technologies you may work with

  • Python
  • LLM APIs
  • RAG architectures
  • Vector databases
  • LangChain/LlamaIndex
  • Model evaluation tools
  • AI deployment tools

Examples of real work

  • Customer support assistants using client knowledge bases
  • Document intelligence and extraction pipelines
  • AI-powered features inside client web and mobile applications

Who this suits

You’re curious about what AI can actually do in a product, but you also want to understand its limitations. You want to build useful systems rather than simply experiment with prompts.


Prerequisites

Prerequisites are a starting point, not a promise that you already know everything. You're expected to learn during the experience — but you also need enough foundation to participate in real work and take responsibility for your own progress.

AI Engineer

  • Basic programming fundamentals
  • Python fundamentals
  • Basic understanding of APIs
  • Basic Git knowledge
  • Curiosity about how AI systems work
  • Willingness to understand and evaluate AI-generated output rather than blindly rely on it

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