AI Skills for Forward Deployed Engineer — Courses & Certification

Become a certified Forward Deployed Engineer. Master 20 skills including key AI/ML skills with expert courses and verified assessments. Earn the AI-FDE_TEC certification on AISkillBench.

Skills in this track

• Customer Team Enablement & Solution Handover
• Generative AI Fundamentals
• RAG Systems (Custom AI)
• End-to-End Deployment Ownership & Delivery Tradeoffs
• Productizing Custom Solutions into Reusable Frameworks
• Enterprise AI Architecture & Integration Design
• LLM Application Orchestration and API Integration
• Vector Database Infrastructure and RAG Scaling
• Automated LLM Fine-tuning and RLHF Pipelines
• Generative AI Observability and Hallucination Monitoring
• Responsible AI Governance and Bias Mitigation
• LLM Evaluation and Performance Benchmarking
• Vibe Coding
• Prompt Engineering
• Technical Discovery & Customer Requirements Scoping
• Explaining AI Systems to Non-Technical Stakeholders
• Deploying LLM Applications in Customer Infrastructure
• AI Security, Compliance & Data Residency for Regulated Deployments
• Rapid AI Prototyping for Customer Demos
• MCP: Building Tool Integrations for Agents

Courses

• Implementing Generative Artificial Intelligence Models
• Generative AI Fundamentals for Data Engineering
• Implementing LLM Orchestration and API Integration
• Building AI Image Generators with Node.js and OpenAI
• Human-in-the-Loop RAG Agent with CopilotKit
• Semantic Chunking for RAG Pipelines
• Building Production Grade RAG Systems
• Architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
• Implementing Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
• Retrieval Augmented Generation Architectures and Implementation
• Full-Stack RAG Chatbot Development with Next.js
• Building Conversational RAG Agents with Claude 3 and LangChain
• Building RAG AI Agents on Google Cloud
• Three Semantic Chunking Methods for RAG
• Practical RAG and LLM Application Development
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation Architectures and Strategies
• Improving RAG with Cohere Reranking
• Hybrid Search with SPLADE and Sentence Transformers
• Building AI-Powered Video Search with NLP
• Building Agentic Corrective RAG Systems
• Building Local RAG Applications with Ollama and Verba
• Implementing Agentic RAG and Knowledge Graphs
• Implementing GraphRAG with Python and Neo4j
• Docling for RAG Data Curation

Career snapshot

Field: Technology · Level: advanced · Credential: AI-FDE Certification

Frequently asked questions

What skills will I learn in the Forward Deployed Engineer track?

You will master 20 skills with curated expert courses and verified assessments.

How do I earn the AI-FDE_TEC certification?

Complete all required skills and pass their assessments to earn the AI-FDE_TEC certification on AISkillBench.