The AI Engineering Bootcamp
4.9
(30 ratings)
13 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build RAG & Agents w/ LangChain. Fine-Tune Embeddings & Llama 3.1. Deploy to Prod in the Cloud & On-Prem. Monitor and Evaluate w/ LLM Ops
The AI Engineering Bootcamp
4.9
(30 ratings)
13 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Build RAG & Agents w/ LangChain. Fine-Tune Embeddings & Llama 3.1. Deploy to Prod in the Cloud & On-Prem. Monitor and Evaluate w/ LLM Ops
Build with industry-leading LLM tooling
Course overview
Prototype LLM apps and get them into Production. Ship fast, then scale.
👋 Welcome to your next great LLM adventure!
🏗️ 🚢🚀 We invite you to join the close-knit AI Makerspace community and start building, shipping, and sharing with us!
🤩 Each cohort culminates in a unique live Demo Day experience!
🧑💻 You will learn to prototype LLM applications according to best practices, using the four primary patterns of Generative AI as first principles: Prompt Engineering, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Fine-Tuning (of LLMs and embedding models), and Agents.
🧑🤝🧑 You will get hands-on building and sharing complex LLM applications weekly, receiving constant feedback during live sessions and through your homework submissions via instructors, peer supporters, and your fellow cohort members.
📇 RAG systems are front and center in the course. You'll learn how to build applications from quick prototypes with OpenAI GPT models to scalable production applications with the latest open-source LLMs and embedding models.
☁️ While never getting locked into a single cloud-computing vendor, you'll orchestrate systems from scratch in Python and using core version-controlled LangChain constructs, the leading framework for building production LLM applications.
🧐 You will outfit your applications with visibility and monitoring tooling from LangSmith, and you'll learn to evaluate your applications' inputs, outputs, and usage!
🚀 Optimize your prompting with DSPy, your RAG applications with advanced retrieval and chunking, and your LLM inference and serving with AWQ and vLLM!
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**NOTES**
**💰 How much do the tools cost?
Don't worry! This course is for the GPU-poor among us!
This course adapts to industry-standard open-source software and compute hardware and is cloud platform agnostic. We strive to keep your additional costs low (below ~$100 total). Check Q&A for more info!**
**🙋 What are the prerequisites?
All applicants must complete THE AI ENGINEERING BOOTCAMP CHALLENGE. This will require you to set up your LLM application development environment and deploy your first LLM application!
If you're unsure if this could be a fit for you, submit your application and give the challenge a try! It is the best way to test whether or not this level of coding and detail is what you're looking for**
Who is this course for
01
Data scientists and machine learning engineers aiming at becoming full-stack AI practitioners.
02
Software engineers who want to build complex LLM applications.
03
Technical product managers who guide their teams on what to build, why, and how.
What you’ll get out of this course
🛹 The AI Engineering Onramp
Before class starts, learn the transformer, fine-tuning, and alignment through weekly emails!
🤝 1:1 Career Coaching
Student success will help you achieve your goals before and after graduation!
💼 Hiring Opportunities
Certified AI Engineers get direct access to job opportunities from our network
🧑🤝🧑 Peer-Supported Live Coding
Work with certified AI Engineers in small groups to discuss and code every class!
🤩 Demo Day!
You will present a unique project live to a cohort of your peers and the public!
🙋 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Build Retrieval Augmented Generation applications and ground LLM outputs in your own reference data!
🕴️ Agents
Build complex LLM applications capable of reasoning, action, and working with external tools!
🧑💻 Prompt Engineering
Leverage in-context learning as an engineer for prototyping, RAG applications, agents, and more!
🔢 Embedding Fine-Tuning
Adapt open-source embedding models to your domain-specific language or data!
⚖️ LLM Fine-Tuning
Efficiently train LLMs to perform specific tasks using techniques like PEFT-LoRA and quantization!
📈 Evaluation
Instrument LLM applications for quantitative metrics-driven development!
🔎 Visibility
Debug, test, and monitor applications built using any leading LLM framework!
🚀 Inference & Serving
Ensure efficient and scalable inference using the right tools and techniques!
This course includes
Interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
103 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
18 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
The AI Engineering Bootcamp
Course syllabus
Week 1
Nov 14—Nov 17
Modules
- 🤖 Prompt Engineering, LLM APIs, and Your First GPT🤖 Prompt Engineering, LLM APIs, and Your First GPT6 Lessons • 1 Project
- 🗃️ Embeddings and Your First RAG Applications🗃️ Embeddings and Your First RAG Applications6 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 2
Nov 18—Nov 24
Modules
- 🚀 End-to-End RAG Deployment🚀 End-to-End RAG Deployment5 Lessons • 1 Project
- 🔗 Production-Grade RAG with LangChain🔗 Production-Grade RAG with LangChain6 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 3
Nov 25—Dec 1
Modules
- 🕴️ Your First Agent Application with LangGraph🕴️ Your First Agent Application with LangGraph6 Lessons • 1 Project
- 🌀 Multi-Agent Applications🌀 Multi-Agent Applications6 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 4
Dec 2—Dec 8
Modules
- 🪄 Synthetic Data Generation🪄 Synthetic Data Generation4 Lessons • 1 Project
- 📈 RAG Evaluation📈 RAG Evaluation5 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 5
Dec 9—Dec 15
Modules
- 🔤 Fine-Tuning Embedding Models🔤 Fine-Tuning Embedding Models6 Lessons • 1 Project
- ⚖️ Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs with Low-Rank Adaption⚖️ Fine-Tuning Open-Source LLMs with Low-Rank Adaption6 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 6
Dec 16—Dec 22
Modules
- 🧑🎓 Midterm!🧑🎓 Midterm!1 Project
- 🤑 AIE Industry Use Cases🤑 AIE Industry Use Cases5 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 7
Dec 23—Dec 29
Modules
- 🎛️ Advanced Prompt Engineering🎛️ Advanced Prompt Engineering5 Lessons • 1 Project
- 🗂️ Advanced RAG🗂️ Advanced RAG8 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 8
Dec 30—Jan 5
Modules
- 🚀 Production-Ready Optimization Strategies🚀 Production-Ready Optimization Strategies7 Lessons • 1 Project
- 🌐 Deploying Scalable Open-Source Endpoints for RAG🌐 Deploying Scalable Open-Source Endpoints for RAG7 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 9
Jan 6—Jan 12
Modules
- 🏢 On-Premise Agentic RAG🏢 On-Premise Agentic RAG4 Lessons • 1 Project
- 💽 Inference, Serving and GPU Optimization💽 Inference, Serving and GPU Optimization7 Lessons • 1 Project
Week 10
Jan 13—Jan 19
Modules
- 🎤 Demo Day Dress Rehearsal🎤 Demo Day Dress Rehearsal2 Lessons
- 📸 Demo Day📸 Demo Day2 Lessons
Week 11
Jan 20—Jan 26
Nothing scheduled for this week.
Week 12
Jan 27—Feb 2
Nothing scheduled for this week.
Week 13
Feb 3—Feb 6
Nothing scheduled for this week.
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Course schedule
4-8 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
4::00 - 6:00 PM PT
- W1: Aug 13th, 15th
- W2: Aug 20th, 22nd
- W3: Aug 27th, 29th
- W4: Sep 3rd, 5th
- W5: Sep 10th, 12th
- W6: Sep 17th, 19th
- W7: Sept 24th, 26th
- W8: Oct 1st, 3rd
- W9a: Oct 8th
- W9b: Oct 17th
- W10: Oct 22nd, 24th
* All sessions are recorded!
Weekly Programming Projects
2-4 hours per week
Each class period, we will get hands-on with Python coding homework!
Demo Day!
Thursday, July 25th at 4:00 PM PT
Open to the public - Friends, family, coworkers, and bosses welcome!
Office Hours
Monday and Friday
Dr. Greg: Tuesdays @ 8 AM PT
The Wiz 🪄: Fridays @ 3 PM PT
Peer Support Sessions
Varies
Peers supporters are here to serve as your destination group; they're available for homework help, concept deep dives, and to hang out with!
Find them live in class, on Discord, and even in their own dedicated weekly sessions!
International-Friendly Weekly Deep Dive Sessions
Varies
For International (EMEA) students, a Certified AI Engineer will hold weekly 90-minute deep dive sessions!
AI Engineering Demo Day!
See the playlist of all demos from Cohort 2 @ bit.ly/aie3-demos
📅 Detailed Schedule!
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Meet your instructor
"Dr. Greg" Loughnane
Co-Founder & CEO @ AI Makerspace
In 2023, we created the LLM Engineering: The Foundations and LLM Ops: LLMs in Production courses on Maven!
From 2021-2023 I led the product & curriculum team at FourthBrain (Backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund) to build industry-leading online bootcamps in ML Engineering and ML Operations (MLOps).
Previously, I worked as an AI product manager, university professor, data science consultant, AI startup advisor, and ML researcher; TEDx & keynote speaker, lecturing since 2013.
👨🏫 Learn with us free on YouTube!
👨💼 Connect with me on LinkedIn!
Chris "The Wiz 🪄" Alexiuk
Co-Founder & CTO @ AI Makerspace
In 2023, we created the LLM Engineering: The Foundations and LLM Ops: LLMs in Production courses on Maven!
During the day, I work as a Developer Advocate for NVIDIA. Previously, I worked with Greg at FourthBrain (Backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund) on MLE and MLOps courses, and on a few Deeplearning.ai events!
A former founding MLE and data scientist, these days you can find me cranking out Machine Learning and LLM content!
My motto is "Build, build, build!", and I'm excited to get building with all of you!
👨🏫 YouTube: AI Makerspace Official, My Personal
👨💼 Connect with me on LinkedIn!
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The AI Engineering Bootcamp
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$2,999
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Build 🏗️, ship 🚢, and share 🚀 like a legend.
Active hands-on learning at the edge
We teach concepts AND code. Never one or the other. AI has accelerated so quickly that anyone who's been a manager the last few years has not yet seen the code for themselves.
Project-based and community-driven
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams. We can't wait to see what you build, ship, and share on Demo Day projects 🤩.
Find fellow travelers for your journey
Join a community of like-minded AI practitioners who are all in on Generative AI, and who are heading down the same career path as you are.
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**Note: This is from cohort 1 which we ran between August and September of 2023**
- Build complex apps with LLM Ops frameworks including LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Understand LLM product development methods, from prompting to retrieval and beyond.
- Build, deploy, evaluate, and operate your own end-to-end production RAG system.
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