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Beginner1 day / 4 to 6 guided hourspublished

AI Engineer Career Path: Beginner

Learn prompts, embeddings, retrieval, model routes, and AI application safety basics.

Audience

  • Self-paced technical learners
  • Instructor-led cohorts
  • Enterprise teams preparing staff for hands-on operations

Prerequisites

  • Basic computer literacy
  • Ability to follow browser-based lab instructions

Outcomes

  • Provision an isolated ai engineer career path lab from template metadata.
  • Use snapshots, rollback, validation checks, and teardown safely.
  • Explain how LiteLLM, Ollama, Qdrant, Python fit into an enterprise training environment.
  • Produce evidence that an instructor or admin can review.
Course plan

Modules and labs

Each module maps to provisioned lab work, validation evidence, reset/rollback policy, and instructor visibility.

Module 3

Validation and reflection

Required templates

Python data science workstation

defined

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Vector database/RAG node

defined

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS plus Qdrant or compatible vector DB

Ollama/LiteLLM client node

defined

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Validation checks

Notebook reachable

JupyterLab returns a valid login page or authenticated health response.

AI endpoint reachable

The model gateway returns at least one allowed model for the tenant.