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Roadmap.

Build towards a deployed AI product with tests and technical decisions you can explain in internship interviews.

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STEP 01

Build your data and ML foundations

Learn to prepare data, train a model and evaluate it before moving into more complex AI systems.

  • Python & SQL
  • Statistics
  • Machine learning
  • Model evaluation
Your checkpoint

Complete a model project with a documented evaluation.

STEP 02

Understand deep learning

Learn how neural networks are trained and how language and vision systems represent information.

  • Neural networks
  • Training
  • Language models
  • Vision models
Your checkpoint

Explain your model’s inputs, outputs and limitations.

STEP 03

Connect a language model

Call a model from an application. Handle structured outputs, streaming, failures and usage limits.

  • LLM APIs
  • Prompts
  • Structured output
  • Error handling
Your checkpoint

Build an app that validates model output and handles failed requests.

STEP 04

Answer from your own data

Prepare documents, retrieve relevant passages and show the evidence behind an answer.

  • Embeddings
  • Vector search
  • Retrieval
  • Citations
Your checkpoint

Build a document assistant that cites sources and handles missing information.

STEP 05

Use tools with clear boundaries

Connect the assistant to useful functions and define what it may do automatically and what needs approval.

  • Tool calling
  • Agents
  • Permissions
  • Human review
Your checkpoint

Demonstrate a tool-using assistant that cannot silently take an unauthorised action.

STEP 06

Evaluate and deploy

Create tests for accuracy, failure modes, latency and cost. Deploy and observe how the app behaves.

  • Evaluation sets
  • Safety checks
  • Deployment
  • Monitoring
Your checkpoint

Complete a capstone with a demo, test results and a plan for monitoring failures.

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with NYC.

Follow this path with live classes, project work and mentor feedback in AI Engineering. Build the portfolio and the understanding to explain it.

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