The AI Solutions Engineer Apprenticeship is a 24-week, hands-on programme designed for career switchers, junior developers, and recent graduates. Build foundational AI skills through practical projects and graduate ready for junior-to-mid AI engineering roles.
Five core areas that form the foundation of practical AI engineering.
This programme is designed for people starting their AI journey.
| Audience | Background |
|---|---|
| Career Switchers | Professionals from non-technical fields looking to transition into AI roles |
| Junior Developers | 1–3 years of software development experience, new to AI/ML |
| Recent Graduates | Computer science or related degree holders seeking practical AI skills |
| Technical Professionals | QA, DevOps, or sysadmin professionals expanding into AI engineering |
Five progressive modules, each building on the last.
| Module | Focus | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 1. AI Foundations | Core AI concepts, ML basics, prompt engineering, AI tooling landscape | Understand AI fundamentals and navigate the tooling ecosystem |
| 2. Applied Development | Building with APIs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, LLM integration | Build working AI applications with retrieval-augmented generation |
| 3. Solution Design | Business problem analysis, data flow design, integration patterns | Design AI solutions that solve real business problems end-to-end |
| 4. Agentic Workflows | Multi-step agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop, workflow automation | Build and deploy multi-step AI agent workflows |
| 5. Capstone Project | End-to-end project: design, build, test, and deploy a production AI system | Portfolio-ready project demonstrating full-stack AI engineering |
Available in-person in Singapore or fully online. Multi-week modular format with hands-on projects at every stage.
No. This programme is designed for beginners. You need basic programming familiarity (any language), but no prior AI or machine learning experience is required.
Yes. The programme is available both in-person in Singapore and fully online. Online participants receive the same content, projects, and instructor access.
You'll work with OpenClaw, Ollama, n8n, FastAPI, Streamlit, ChromaDB/Qdrant, Docker Compose, and production deployment patterns — the same stack we use for client projects.
Yes. Upon successful completion of the capstone project, you'll receive a Digital Futures Academy certificate verifying your competencies.
Book a call to discuss the apprenticeship programme and whether it's right for you.