The programme gave me a practical, hands-on understanding of machine learning and AI through real projects rather than passive lectures. By the end, I felt significantly more prepared to join an AI engineering team, and I did.
Apprentice reviews
Software engineers at Neo4j, xAI, Sony and others on the Founders and Coders AI apprenticeship.
The apprenticeship helped me bridge my existing expertise with applied AI. Shortly after completing it, I joined xAI as an AI Finance Expert, working on AI reasoning and evaluation in finance.
Get the right group of people together and give them the challenge of figuring out machine learning, and something remarkable happens.
We had opportunities to build models from scratch, which helped me gain a deeper understanding of concepts that are often abstracted away. Fantastic preparation for a role in AI engineering.
It helps you deeply understand what's going on under the hood of ML algorithms, without becoming overwhelming. Plenty of practical opportunities to build and deploy.
The course balances academic theory with practical implementation. Both are fundamentally important, and Founders and Coders has done a brilliant job honouring both.
The apprenticeship has been transformational. It enabled me to earn an extra qualification while working and jump-start my research career in AI. Inspired by the programme, I'm now doing a PhD in a similar research area.
I got a lot more than I expected. The apprenticeship led directly to us shipping our first in-house product.
You learn by building things, working with other apprentices who are equally motivated, and having access to instructors who actually know their stuff.
One of the best professional decisions I've made. I wanted to understand machine learning properly rather than just using pre-built tools, and that's exactly what I got.
While MLX gave me strong foundations to understand AI models, this new course is perfectly tailored to turn that knowledge into real applications.
There's a strong emphasis on how we learn together, not just on the content. It's already feeding directly back into the work I do at my organisation.
I always prefer learning by doing, and this programme is very focused on actually applying knowledge, not just theory.
The combination of technical rigor, peer-led learning, and hands-on building means we learn the theoretical foundations and how to apply them in practice.
Most of our time is spent building software rather than learning passively, which has made me much more confident using new tools and understanding concepts quickly.