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Tai Labs Certified AI Engineer
TAI-AIEDesigns, evaluates and deploys production-minded AI applications with retrieval, tools, agents, guardrails and cost control.
- Effort
- 12 weeks
- Level
- Professional
- Passing
- 75%
Competency blueprint
Assessment weighting is published up front — 20% knowledge, 30% labs, 20% portfolio and 30% capstone.
Model interfaces
20%APIs, structured outputs and tool calling
Retrieval
25%Embeddings, vector stores and RAG quality
Agents and tools
20%Agent loops, MCP and external systems
Evaluation and guardrails
20%Eval suites, failure analysis and safety controls
Deployment
15%Monitoring, latency and cost in production
Assessment blueprint
Knowledge
20%
Labs
30%
Portfolio
20%
Capstone
30%
75% overall to pass. The capstone must pass independently of every other score. Two retakes per assessment window; capstone may be revised twice within 90 days.
Capstone
Build and deploy a functioning production-minded AI application.
Modules
- LLM and generative-AI fundamentals
- Python for AI
- OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini APIs
- Structured outputs and tool calling
- Embeddings and vector databases
- RAG
- Agents
- MCP and external tools
- Evaluations and guardrails
- Deployment, monitoring and cost