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AI Architect

Anyone can get a demo working. An AI Architect makes it survive production. Learn to design AI systems that are reliable, secure, and affordable at scale — and defend every decision.

Who it's for

Engineers ready to own the system, not just the feature.

  • Senior engineers and tech leads who now architect AI systems.
  • Solution architects and staff engineers moving into AI.
  • Lead engineers responsible for an AI product's reliability.

Assumed background: professional software engineering experience. New to engineering? Start with a foundational course first.

What you'll build

A reference architecture you can defend anywhere.

A complete reference architecture for a production AI system, plus a deployed reference build — documented as an architecture decision record you can take into any interview or boardroom.

What you'll learn

  • Choose models and patterns against real constraints — cost, latency, accuracy.
  • Design retrieval properly — and know when not to use RAG.
  • Architect agentic systems: orchestration, tools, memory, MCP.
  • Build the evaluation and guardrail layer that makes systems safe to ship.
  • Engineer for production: observability, latency, cost, scale.
  • Integrate with existing systems and hand over cleanly.
  1. 01
    The architect's mandate
    System design for non-deterministic software.
  2. 02
    Retrieval architectures
    RAG done right — chunking, retrieval, reranking, citations.
  3. 03
    Agentic architectures
    Orchestration, tools, memory, MCP.
  4. 04
    Evaluation & reliability
    Eval pipelines, LLM-as-judge, regression.
  5. 05
    Security, safety & governance
    Guardrails, injection defense, data, compliance.
  6. 06
    Production & capstone
    Cost, latency, observability — then ship and defend your architecture.
FORMAT

Live & hands-on

Live, online, small cohort, ~6 hours a week over 6 weeks. You build throughout.
WALK AWAY

Certified + portfolio

A Univelcity certification and a defensible reference architecture in your portfolio.
TAUGHT BY

Practitioners

Senior architects who ship production AI — not career instructors.

Questions

Good to know.

Do I need to be able to code?
Yes — this course assumes professional software engineering experience. If you're newer, start with a foundational course first and come back.
How senior do I need to be?
You should already be building software. You don't need the architect title yet — this course helps you earn it.
Is it live?
Yes, live and online in a small cohort, with hands-on project work throughout.
What will I have at the end?
A reference architecture and a deployed reference build, documented as a decision record you can defend in any interview.

Architect what comes next.

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