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Accelerator

AI Engineer Career Accelerator Program

Ship a portfolio of production AI systems and defend every design choice in senior AI interviews.

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Outcome

What you'll be able to do.

Walk into senior AI engineering interviews with production systems you built and can defend end to end.

  • A production RAG pipeline with evaluation harness, hybrid retrieval, and reranking
  • An agent system with tool use, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, and cost controls
  • A voice agent shipped to a real phone number with state recovery and streaming
  • A vision pipeline that extracts structured data from invoices, receipts, and forms
  • An observability stack with traces, evals, and regression detection
  • A senior-level system design artefact you can defend in interviews

Projects you build

Portfolio pieces you can demo.

Each project ships as real code you run locally, not slides you watch. Walk into your next review with something on screen.

01Project

Your own mini Perplexity

A search bar. Type a question. It answers with cited sources, streamed token by token. Handles fresh news, vague questions, technical queries.

PythonQdrantNext.js

You ship: A URL that feels like Perplexity but you built it. Investors, recruiters, and your team will all recognize the shape instantly.

02Project

An AI phone number that answers real calls

A working phone number. Anyone can call it. Your agent picks up, qualifies the caller, and hands off to a specialist agent mid-conversation.

LiveKitFastRTCDeepgram

You ship: Share the number in an interview. The recruiter calls it. Your agent answers. That is the demo; no further explanation needed.

03Project

A vision agent that reads invoices

Drop in a photo of an invoice, receipt, or form. It extracts the line items, tax, totals, and dates into typed JSON. Works on messy real-world PDFs.

GPT-4 VisionPythonPydantic

You ship: A working demo with 20 real invoice photos and an accuracy number. The kind of thing a finance-tech company would hire you for.

04Project

An observability dashboard your team can use

Every LLM call traced. Every feature's weekly cost. Eval scores that block merges when retrieval quality drops. No more guessing.

PhoenixLangfusePostgres

You ship: A dashboard screenshot for your portfolio, plus the CI config that kept quality from regressing in the last month.

Curriculum

What's inside.

  1. 01

    Sentiment classification with LLMs and few-shot prompting

    Build a multi-task NLP service powered by focused LLM prompts and per-task streaming.

  2. 02

    Streaming LLM Applications with FastAPI

    Stream LLM responses in real-time and master prompt engineering fundamentals.

  3. 03

    Long document RAG with conversational memory

    Build a conversational AI tutor over long PDFs with chapter-aware chunking and memory-backed retrieval.

  4. 04

    RAG systems with ChromaDB and cross-encoder reranking

    Build a grounded RAG chatbot with ChromaDB, web scraping, and cross-encoder reranking.

  5. 05

    Hybrid document search with Qdrant and Sentence Transformers

    Hybrid retrieval with dense vectors, sparse keywords, RRF fusion, and cross-encoder reranking.

  6. 06

    Advanced RAG with query rewriting and evaluation

    Add query rewriting, sub-graphs, PII scrubbing, and RAGAS scoring to a production RAG pipeline.

  7. 07

    Graph RAG with LangChain and Neo4j

    Build a knowledge graph from raw text, ask natural-language questions over it, and beat vector RAG on multi-hop queries.

  8. 08

    Vectorless RAG with Hierarchical Document Trees

    Skip the vector database. Navigate document trees with an LLM agent and get cited answers.

  9. 09

    Advanced RAG Course: Build Text to SQL Agentic AI System

    Build production agentic AI systems, from architecture to deployment.

  10. 10

    Structured data extraction with vision LLMs and Pydantic

    Extract structured data from images with vision LLMs and Pydantic validation.

  11. 11

    Image-to-image generation with FLUX and provider pattern

    Build an image-to-image API with FLUX and the provider pattern.

  12. 12

    Building voice AI agents with LiveKit and Deepgram

    Build a real-time voice AI agent with LiveKit, Deepgram, and tool calling.

  13. 13

    Real-time phone agents with FastRTC

    Ship a real-time phone voice agent over WebRTC with FastRTC, Whisper, and swappable TTS.

  14. 14

    Building MCP servers for GitHub PR review

    Build an MCP server that reviews GitHub pull requests end to end.

  15. 15

    Full-stack agentic AI with Next.js and LangGraph

    Ship a multi-step AI agent in one Next.js app with streaming tools and memory.

  16. 16

    Learn to Build your own Coding Agent (Claude Code)

    Reverse-engineer how Claude Code works. Then build your own production AI coding agent from scratch.

  17. 17

    LLM Observability with Arize Phoenix

    Emit JSON logs with request IDs and OpenTelemetry spans across every tool call so you can click a trace and see exactly what your agent did.

  18. 18

    Agent evaluation techniques

    Stop shipping agents you cannot defend. Learn the eval patterns LangSmith-backed teams actually use.

  19. 19

    Production agentic systems with Langfuse

    Turn a notebook agent into a service you would be happy to wake up to at 3am.

  20. 20

    Layered production AI architecture

    Architect an agent as seven composable layers with per-request traces.

  21. 21

    Deploying AI applications with FastAPI and Docker

    Production FastAPI patterns for AI apps: SSE, jobs, CORS, probes, logs, Docker, graceful shutdown.

  22. 22

    Enterprise RAG infrastructure with Kubernetes and Ray

    Ship a RAG service that survives real production traffic on Kubernetes.

Who it's for

Is this for you?

Mid-level AI engineers

who want to cross into senior without faking system design

Backend engineers

who already ship prod systems and want to go deep on AI architecture

ML engineers moving to AI engineering

who need to master LLM-era production patterns

What you'll earn

Ship it, earn it.

Production AI Builder

Ship systems that survive real traffic

System Design Fluent

Defend every AI architecture choice

Career Accelerator

Complete the accelerator

Pricing

Pick the path that fits.

Self-paced forever, or mentor-led when you want live feedback.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from the AI Bootcamp?
The AI Bootcamp takes software engineers into their first AI systems. This accelerator assumes you already ship AI prototypes and teaches the harder problems: evaluation harnesses, cost controls, reliability under load, agent guardrails, and architecting systems you can defend in senior interviews.
Who is this program for?
Mid-level engineers who already ship AI features and want to reach senior or staff AI engineer without hand-waving through system design. You should have built at least one AI system in production or staging.
What kind of systems do I actually build?
Production RAG with evals, an agent system with guardrails and cost control, a voice agent on a real phone number, a vision pipeline for structured extraction, and an observability stack. Every project ships with a written architectural tradeoff.
Will this help me in senior AI interviews?
That is the whole point. Each phase ends with you being able to walk into an interview with a real system you built and a written justification for architecture choices. No more vibes-based answers.
How much time do I need per week?
10 to 12 hours per week. The accelerator is designed for engineers who already have backend instincts and want to bolt on senior AI engineering patterns.

Pick your next step.

Ship a portfolio of production AI systems and defend every design choice in senior AI interviews.

Join the accelerator

AI Engineer Career Accelerator Program

Mentor-led + self-paced