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AI Engineering Programs

Four tracks — foundations, core AI engineering, responsible engineering, and sovereign AI. Every program ends in a working artifact you own.

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How the curriculum is structured

FIRE runs four tracks. Foundations covers Python, machine learning and the engineering practice AI work assumes. Core builds LLM and agent systems. Responsible Engineering covers evaluation, governance and security. Sovereign AI covers local models, data residency and the trade-offs against frontier APIs.

Most people take one track. Engineers switching into AI usually start in Foundations and finish with the agentic capstone. Enterprise teams typically start in Core or Responsible Engineering, delivered against their own systems.

What every program has in common

Three things, regardless of level. You build something that runs. You write the evaluation that proves it works. You leave with the artifact on your own GitHub, not a completion certificate.

That is deliberate. A certificate says you attended. A working agent with a test harness and a failure analysis says you can do the job — and it is what a technical interviewer will actually ask you to walk through.

Who each track is for

  • College students — final-year engineering, MCA and AI/DS students who want a portfolio, not just a line on a CV.
  • Working professionals — backend, data and devops engineers moving into AI systems work without leaving their job.
  • Enterprise teams — engineering, data and risk functions that need to build with AI without failing an audit.
  • Executives — boards and CXOs who need to understand exposure, governance duty and sovereignty options in half a day.
  • Institutions — colleges bringing industry-grade AI curriculum and faculty enablement onto campus.

What we do not promise

We do not guarantee placement, and we would be sceptical of anyone who does. We are not a university and we do not award degrees or diplomas. What we award is a certificate of completion issued by FIRE, and the artifacts you built to earn it.

Open programs

6 weeks · Intermediate

Agentic AI for Enterprise Teams

Six weeks for engineering teams, delivered against your own systems and constraints. Same agentic engineering as the open cohort, taught…

8 weeks · Intermediate

AI Capstone + Internship Track

Eight weeks building one substantial system against a real brief, with weekly review and a final defence to a technical…

Half-day · Intermediate

AI Governance for Boards & CXOs

A half-day briefing for boards and leadership teams: where AI exposure sits, what you are accountable for, what evidence to…

3 weeks · Advanced

AI Security & Agent Red-Teaming

Three weeks attacking AI systems — your own first. Prompt injection direct and indirect, tool abuse, scope escalation, data exfiltration,…

6 weeks · Advanced

AI Systems in Production

Six weeks on operating AI systems after launch: tracing, cost control, model routing, incident response, and the deployment patterns that…

2 weeks · Intermediate

Applied AI Electives

Two-week electives applying the core curriculum to one domain — financial services, healthcare, public sector or energy. Same engineering, different…

2 or 5 days · Beginner

Campus Bootcamp

A two-day or five-day intensive delivered on campus. Students leave having built and deployed a working AI system, not having…

6 weeks · Beginner

Data & Machine Learning Foundations

Six weeks on what machine learning actually does, so you can reason about model behaviour rather than treat it as…

2 weeks · Advanced

Faculty Development / Train-the-Trainer

Two weeks certifying your faculty or internal enablement team to deliver FIRE curriculum independently, with materials, assessment rubrics and ongoing…

8 weeks · Intermediate

LLM Engineering & RAG

Eight weeks building retrieval-backed LLM systems that hold up on real documents and real questions. You will build a working…

6 weeks · Beginner

Python for AI Engineering

Six weeks of Python written the way AI systems need it: typed, tested, async where it matters, and structured so…

4 weeks · Intermediate

Responsible AI & Governance for Organisations

Four weeks bringing an organisation's AI use under control: an inventory of what is actually running, evaluation standards, approval processes,…

4 weeks · Beginner

Software Engineering for AI Systems

Four weeks on the engineering practice AI work assumes but rarely teaches: version control that survives collaboration, APIs that fail…

2 days · Advanced

Sovereign AI Executive Intensive

A two-day intensive for leadership teams facing a sovereignty decision: what residency actually requires, what self-hosting costs, and how to…

Cohorts forming

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