LLM engineering & retrieval | Sri AI

Course overview

Getting reliable, grounded answers out of large language models, and knowing exactly when they are guessing.

Level: Advanced  ·  Mode: Evenings, online

Who this course is for

Developers building assistants over documents that must not be answered wrongly.

What you will learn

• Design retrieval pipelines that actually improve accuracy
• Ground answers in sources and cite them
• Evaluate a system rather than trusting a demo
• Control cost and latency in production

Syllabus

1. Module 1: Embeddings and vector search
2. Module 2: Retrieval-augmented generation
3. Module 3: Structured output and tool use
4. Module 4: Evaluation harnesses
5. Module 5: Guardrails and refusal behaviour
6. Module 6: Serving and caching

Final project

Every module ends in hands-on practice, and the course ends with a project you build and present. Your certificate names that project.

Before you start

Python for AI.