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Applied GenAI Engineering & RAG

Build grounded AI applications with evaluation, access control and reliable operations.

12 weeks48 live hoursCapstone + live defence

YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY

From understanding
to application.

Curriculum 2026.09Reviewed 2026-09-07
01
WEEKS 1–2 · 8 LIVE HOURS

LLM application foundations

  • Tokens, embeddings and context
  • Structured outputs and APIs
  • Streaming and error handling
  • Model capability and cost comparison
Your practical output

Build a typed API application and benchmark candidate models.

Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note; discuss feedback in the live clinic.
02
WEEKS 3–4 · 8 LIVE HOURS

Data and retrieval engineering

  • Document parsing and chunking
  • Metadata and access filtering
  • Hybrid search and reranking
  • Citation and source freshness
Your practical output

Build a retrieval pipeline and measure retrieval quality.

Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note; discuss feedback in the live clinic.
03
WEEKS 5–6 · 8 LIVE HOURS

Context and multimodal applications

  • Context budgeting and compression
  • Tables, images and document understanding
  • Tool-assisted calculations
  • Fine-tuning versus retrieval decisions
Your practical output

Compare retrieval and context strategies on a shared test set.

Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note; discuss feedback in the live clinic.
04
WEEKS 7–8 · 8 LIVE HOURS

Evaluation and quality engineering

  • Groundedness, relevance and task success
  • Human-labelled golden datasets
  • Judge calibration and disagreement
  • Regression testing and failure taxonomy
Your practical output

Create an automated and human evaluation pipeline.

Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note; discuss feedback in the live clinic.
05
WEEKS 9–10 · 8 LIVE HOURS

Security and production operations

  • Prompt injection and data exfiltration
  • Tenant isolation and secrets
  • Traces, caching and rate limits
  • Monitoring cost and latency
Your practical output

Red-team the app and document controls and residual risks.

Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note; discuss feedback in the live clinic.
06
WEEKS 11–12 · 8 LIVE HOURS

Deployment studio and live defence

  • CI checks and versioning
  • Canary rollout and rollback
  • Runbooks and incident response
  • Reproducible technical documentation
Your practical output

Deploy and defend a production-style capstone.

Submit the working artefact and a short evidence note; discuss feedback in the live clinic.