AI is eating software, fast, and the future of programming is changing dramatically. At Plank, we're creating a new generation of
AI engineers who will turbo-charge their skills for this new era, rather than be left behind.
What is the Plank AI Accelerator Program?
It is a competitive 1-year program designed to help ambitious early-career engineers develop expertise in building end-to-end GenAI apps. Spots are limited to ensure high caliber of the cohort.
In Phase 1, participants will be intensive trained by technical leaders on key building blocks of GenAI apps, including swarm agent pipelines, voice agents, LORA adapters and on-device models.
Phase 2 is a week-long hackathon, where participants will use all the skills they have learnt in Phase 1 to build two end-to-end GenAI apps.
In Phase 3, participants will work directly with Plank’s commercial partners on real-world AI projects, learning from senior executives and engineering leaders, and getting a front row seat to how fast growing companies are building amazing AI products.
All participants will receive a $2,200 per month award through the duration of the 1 year program. Upon completion of the program, participants are guaranteed a role at Plank as a core team member.
Program Details
We’ve thoughtfully designed the Plank AI Accelerator Program to turn the best and brightest developers into world-class AI engineers capable of building end-to-end GenAI apps
Foundation principles
- Advanced concepts in Python, React and NextJS
- AI IDE and dev setup for fast iterative development
- Devops and deployment basics
LLM APIs + agent frameworks
- OpenAI and Anthropic python/node sdk
- LlamaIndex and OpenAI Swarm agent pipeline
- RAG, Embeddings and VectorDB
MLOps + ETL/data transformations
- MLOps (cloud and platform services), observability
- Evals, Quality optimization
- ETL and data wrangling, dbt transformations
Multimodal models + on-device models
- vLLM and Lora adapters
- Image models, voice models
Hackathon!
- Build and present 2 end-to-end AI projects
Real-world GenAI app development
- Join a Plank AI project team and build end-to-end AI apps collaborating in silicon valley projects
- Join Plank as AI engineer after 1 year completed
