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AI
Intermediate15-18 hours

AI Foundations Engineering

Build production-grade AI systems through data contracts, pipelines, feature plans, validation, deployment monitoring, and scaling runbooks.

Course Overview

Start with the path, then open the rooms.

Work through the lessons in order. Each lesson starts with the concept, explains the vocabulary, then moves into examples, review checks, browser practice, and saved proof when it is useful.

6
Lessons
6
Knowledge checks
6
Practice tasks
6
Graded rooms

Outcomes

ML Engineering
MLOps
Production AI
Model Operations
Industry Standards

AI engineering and model operations

This course is organized around a role path, industry alignment, and proof a learner can keep.

Role path
AI platform or ML engineer
Career Paths
ML Engineer
Competency Focus
  • Define model service boundaries, data pipelines, features, validation, and monitoring.
  • Separate notebooks from production service behavior with explicit owners and rollback paths.
  • Name failure handling, quality gates, scaling signals, and post-release health signals.
Work You Can Show
  • Service contracts with input, output, error, and health behavior.
  • Pipeline, feature, training, deployment, and scaling runbooks.
  • Sandbox checks that prove structured operational reasoning.
Completion Gate

Learner proof should show contracts, data quality, validation, monitoring, rollback, and scaling controls before advanced model work.

Proof Loop

6 examples to inspect

Examples support the reading, but they are not completion evidence by themselves.

0/6 graded rooms passed

Check Work must pass inside the sandbox before protected rooms can complete.

0 explanations saved

Learners keep proof by writing expected result, actual result, and next improvement in their own words.