For software engineers moving into AI

AI Developer Course for Software Engineers

Build RAG applications, AI agents, FastAPI services and deployable AI products in 3 months.

This AI Developer course is for engineers who want a serious path into AI product work. In live mentor-led sessions, you build grounded search, tool-using agents, FastAPI services, lightweight UIs, evaluation checks, and a deployed capstone you can explain in interviews.

Turn private documents and data into grounded RAG search
Connect LLMs to tools, APIs, memory, and multi-step workflows
Package AI features with FastAPI, Streamlit, and Gradio
Deploy a capstone with tracing, evaluation, and documentation
Duration
3 Months
·
Live Online
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Projects
4 Projects
·
Deployed Capstone
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Fee
₹40,000
·
Certificate

Course Overview

What Is an AI Developer Course?

An AI Developer Course trains software engineers to build AI features inside real applications: RAG search, tool-using agents, model API integrations, and deployed AI workflows — without requiring a machine-learning background. This AI application developer course covers the full journey from Python to production deployment.

  1. 01

    Python

    Scripting, automation, and data handling fundamentals

  2. 02

    APIs

    Expose AI capabilities through REST and streaming endpoints

  3. 03

    RAG

    Ground responses in real documents with retrieval pipelines

  4. 04

    Agents

    Add tool use, memory, and multi-step planning to workflows

  5. 05

    Deploy

    Ship with tracing, evaluation, and production infrastructure

The practical journey: write code, expose it through APIs, ground it with retrieval, add agentic workflows, then deploy and evaluate the product.

Audience

Who Is This AI Developer Course For?

Built for backend, frontend, and full-stack engineers who want to add AI product work to their existing software skills.

Backend

Backend Developers

Add AI features and RAG-backed APIs to the services you already build.

Full-Stack

Full-Stack Developers

Connect UI, APIs, models, and workflows into one complete AI product.

Frontend

Frontend Engineers

Build AI-native UX — chat, streaming, and grounded, user-facing features.

Engineers

Engineers Moving into AI

Already ship software? Add RAG, agents, and deployment to your toolkit.

Engineering Proof

AI Developer Projects: RAG, Agents and Deployed Apps

Build portfolio-ready AI features across search, documents, evaluation, agents, and deployment — the kind of work employers expect from an AI application developer.

3-Month AI Developer Course Syllabus

11 sections|37+ modules|Projects hands-on|ILT mentor-led
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Tools & Stack

AI Development Tools and Frameworks

A practical developer-first AI stack covering model APIs, retrieval workflows, agent frameworks, application building, and evaluation. The course focuses on practical development patterns first, so tools can be understood in context instead of as a random stack list.

OpenAI, Claude, Gemini

core

Call frontier models for chat, reasoning, structured outputs, and tool use

Groq & Hugging Face

Fast inference and open models when you need speed, control, or lower cost

LangChain

core

App orchestration — tools, memory, and chains

LangGraph

core

Reliable multi-step and multi-agent workflows with routing and retries

LangSmith

Tracing, debugging, prompt versions, and evaluation runs

LlamaIndex

Data and document pipelines for retrieval

Embeddings & retrieval

Turn documents into searchable meaning with chunking and metadata

Qdrant, Pinecone, Chroma

Vector stores for semantic and hybrid search

FastAPI

Production backend APIs for your AI features

Gradio / Streamlit

core

Quick MVP frontends to demo and validate an AI app before a full UI

Docker

Containerize your app for consistent, repeatable deploys

AWS & Vercel

Host and scale your backend and frontend in the cloud

GitHub Actions

CI/CD so changes ship safely and automatically

RAGAS

core

Measure retrieval and answer quality in RAG apps

DeepEval

Automated checks for output quality and consistency

Tracing & monitoring

Track cost, latency, and failures with LangSmith / Langfuse

Mentorship

Mentorship, Code Reviews and Capstone Delivery

Every project you build gets reviewed by engineering mentors. The focus is on practical architecture, code quality, and your ability to explain what you shipped.

Application Architecture Reviews

Mentors review your project architecture — API design, retrieval pipeline structure, agent workflow boundaries, and deployment choices. You get specific feedback on where your design holds up and where it needs to change before it ships.

Code, Evaluation and Reliability Reviews

Each project gets a code review covering output validation, guardrails, error handling, and evaluation setup. Mentors check whether your RAG responses are grounded, whether your agent workflows have proper stopping conditions, and whether your tracing captures the right signals.

Capstone Deployment and Presentation Review

Your capstone goes through a final review covering deployment quality, documentation, and your ability to explain the architecture. You present the project, answer questions about trade-offs, and get feedback that mirrors what interviewers ask AI developer candidates.

Prerequisite: comfort with coding and basic software engineering. You do not need prior ML or data-science experience — this course adds AI on top of the development skills you already have.

Enrollment

AI Developer Course Fees, Schedule and Next Cohort

Course Fee and Payment Options

One-time payment

₹40,000

All-inclusive

3 months · Live online · Capstone · Certificate

3 months
Live online
4 projects + capstone
Course certificate

No hidden charges. Batch timings confirmed on call.

Live Schedule, Recordings and Weekly Commitment

Sessions are live, instructor-led, and delivered online. All sessions are recorded and available for review. Contact admissions for the next confirmed cohort date.

What the Course Fee Includes

Live instructor-led sessions — not pre-recorded videos

4 guided projects + a deployed production capstone

Course completion certificate from School of Core AI

Mentor code reviews and architecture feedback on every project

Career support: resume review, portfolio guidance, mock interviews

Session recordings available for review

Not sure if this is the right course?

Talk to our team — we'll help you figure out which track fits your goals.

Credential

Certificate, Portfolio and Career Support

AI Developer Course Certificate

Finish the AI Developer Course and earn a course completion certificate from School of Core AI — proof that you can build and ship real AI applications with RAG, AI agents, multimodal workflows, and production deployment. The certificate is awarded after completing all projects and the deployed capstone.

Portfolio and Project Presentation

Each project you build — RAG search, document workflows, agent pipelines, and the deployed capstone — becomes a portfolio piece you can demo and link on your resume. Mentors help you frame the work for interviews so you can explain architecture decisions and trade-offs.

Career and Placement Support

Career support includes resume review, portfolio guidance, and mock interviews focused on AI developer roles. Placement assistance is provided to help you connect with relevant opportunities, but employment is not guaranteed.

Certificate of Completion
SCAI
CERTIFIED

This certifies that

Your Name

Has completed the

AI Developer Course

3-Month Project-Based Program · School of Core AI

Python · FastAPI · LangChain · RAG Pipelines · AI Agents · Tool-Connected Workflows · Multimodal AI · Production Deployment

Aishwarya Pandey

Founder & CEO

Date

Upon completion

Learner Feedback

Learner Projects and SCAI Reviews

Outcomes from developers who upskilled and shipped AI-powered features.

Backend Developer → Now building AI-backed APIs

Aman Sharma

Systems > prompts

I had tried LLM APIs earlier, but only for small experiments. Here I understood how to structure an AI feature like a real backend service — retrieval, evaluation checks, and fallback behavior. The shift was thinking in systems, not prompts.

Frontend Developer → Now ships AI UI features

Priya Nair

Streaming UX

Earlier I could call an API and show output. Now I understand streaming responses, grounding answers with sources, and handling edge cases in the UI. It finally feels like a product feature, not a demo screen.

Full-Stack Developer → Now integrates AI into apps

Rohit Singh

Production mindset

The big learning was production thinking — rate limits, retries, logs, and cost tracking. Before this, AI felt unpredictable. Now I know how to make it reliable enough to ship inside real user flows.

Software Developer → Now builds retrieval workflows

Mehul Patel

Retrieval that works

I moved from basic automation scripts to building retrieval-based workflows that solve real tasks. The architecture breakdown helped me see where things fail in production and how to design around it.

Product-Focused Developer → Now prototypes AI faster

Emily Carter

Product thinking

I already worked with APIs, but this helped me understand how AI changes product design — latency, uncertainty, and user trust. That perspective was extremely practical.

Software Engineer → Now designs safe workflows

Daniel Hughes

Guardrails + tracing

AI started feeling like normal software engineering. Instead of treating models like magic, I learned how to wrap them with validation, guardrails, and observability so teams can actually rely on it.

Backend Developer → Now building AI-backed APIs

Aman Sharma

Systems > prompts

I had tried LLM APIs earlier, but only for small experiments. Here I understood how to structure an AI feature like a real backend service — retrieval, evaluation checks, and fallback behavior. The shift was thinking in systems, not prompts.

Frontend Developer → Now ships AI UI features

Priya Nair

Streaming UX

Earlier I could call an API and show output. Now I understand streaming responses, grounding answers with sources, and handling edge cases in the UI. It finally feels like a product feature, not a demo screen.

Full-Stack Developer → Now integrates AI into apps

Rohit Singh

Production mindset

The big learning was production thinking — rate limits, retries, logs, and cost tracking. Before this, AI felt unpredictable. Now I know how to make it reliable enough to ship inside real user flows.

Software Developer → Now builds retrieval workflows

Mehul Patel

Retrieval that works

I moved from basic automation scripts to building retrieval-based workflows that solve real tasks. The architecture breakdown helped me see where things fail in production and how to design around it.

Product-Focused Developer → Now prototypes AI faster

Emily Carter

Product thinking

I already worked with APIs, but this helped me understand how AI changes product design — latency, uncertainty, and user trust. That perspective was extremely practical.

Software Engineer → Now designs safe workflows

Daniel Hughes

Guardrails + tracing

AI started feeling like normal software engineering. Instead of treating models like magic, I learned how to wrap them with validation, guardrails, and observability so teams can actually rely on it.

Course Comparison

AI Developer Course vs Generative AI and Agentic AI

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Generative AI CourseAgentic AI CourseLLMOps Course
Best forDevelopers building AI into real appsGoing broad into Generative AIAgent orchestration & multi-agent systemsProduction LLM serving & scaling
You focus onAPIs, RAG, agents, FastAPI, deploymentModels, prompting, multimodal, fine-tuningAgent tools, planning, orchestrationServing, observability, cost control
PrerequisiteYou already codeBasic Python helpfulSome coding + RAG basicsDeployed an AI app before
You buildProduction AI app features, end to endLLM, RAG, agent & multimodal systemsMulti-agent workflows with tool useScalable LLM infrastructure
Leads toAI Developer / AI App DeveloperGenerative AI EngineerAgentic AI EngineerLLMOps / AI Infrastructure Engineer

FAQ

AI Developer Course Frequently Asked Questions

Clear answers for software developers exploring AI app development, RAG workflows, AI agents, modern frameworks, and practical implementation.

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