AI Native Product Engineering
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Explain foundation-model behaviour — tokenization, context windows, sampling, cost — and characteristic failure modes such as confabulation and prompt injection.
C2 Understand
Apply prompt, context and retrieval (RAG) engineering, including structured outputs and tool calling, to build LLM features on a cloud AI platform or open-weight stack.
C3 Apply
Design an AI-native system architecture — retrieval, agents, tools, memory and guardrails — through an AI-DLC gated workflow from Inception to Construction.
C6 Create
Evaluate AI systems with golden sets, calibrated LLM-as-judge, cost/latency metrics and CI regression gates, and justify engineering decisions with evidence.
C5 Evaluate
Assess security, privacy and responsible-AI risks using the OWASP LLM and Agentic Top 10, NIST AI 600-1 and EU AI Act risk tiers, and implement proportionate mitigations.
C5 Evaluate · A4 Organise (values)
Collaborate in a team to ship, operate and present an AI-native product with runbook, AI-use log and individual oral defence.
C3 Apply · P4 Mechanism · A3 Value
Weekly schedule & skills
| Week | Topic | Outcomes | Deliverable | Skills |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The AI-Native SDLC: From Agile to AI-DLC Beginner · C2 | CO1 | Lab 0 setup | |
| 2 | How Foundation Models Work: Tokens, Context & Cost Beginner · C2 | CO1 | Cost notebook | |
| 3 | Prompt & Context Engineering; Structured Outputs Beginner · C3 | CO1, CO2 | Prompt harness | |
| 4 | Embeddings, Vector Search & the RAG Pipeline Intermediate · C3 | CO2 | Quiz 1 · Lab 1 | |
| 5 | Production RAG: Chunking, Hybrid Search, Reranking & Citations Intermediate · C4 | CO2, CO4 | Lab 2 | |
| 6 | AI-DLC Inception: Mob Elaboration & Capstone Proposal Intermediate · C6 | CO3 | Capstone proposal | |
| 7 | Agents & Tools: Function Calling, MCP & Memory Advanced · C3 | CO2, CO3 | Quiz 2 · Lab 3 | |
| 8 | Mid-Term + Multi-Agent Patterns & Orchestration Advanced · C2–C4 | CO1, CO2, CO3 | Mid-term (20%) | |
| 9 | Evaluation Engineering: Golden Sets, LLM-as-Judge & Regression Evals Advanced · C5 | CO4 | Lab 4 · Capstone review 1 | |
| 10 | Securing AI Systems: OWASP LLM & Agentic Top 10, Guardrails & Red-Teaming Industry Expert · C5 | CO5 | Quiz 3 · Lab 5 | |
| 11 | AI-DLC Construction: Mob Construction, AI Code Review & Testing Industry Expert · C3–C5 | CO3, CO6 | Build bolt 1 | |
| 12 | LLMOps: Observability, Cost & Latency SLOs, Deployment Industry Expert · C3–C5 | CO4, CO6 | Quiz 4 · Lab 6 · Review 2 | |
| 13 | Responsible AI & Compliance: NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act & Model Cards Mastery · C5 | CO5 | System card · risk register | |
| 14 | Model Strategy & Product Metrics; Capstone Freeze Mastery · C5–C6 | CO3, CO4, CO5, CO6 | Capstone freeze | |
| 15 | Capstone Showcase, Individual Oral Defence & Revision Mastery · C5–C6 | CO3, CO4, CO5, CO6 | Demo + report + defence | |
| Final | Final Examination (institutional exam period) — · C2–C6 | CO1, CO2, CO3, CO4, CO5, CO6 | Final exam (30%) |