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Automation to AI Engineering

From Automation Engineer to AI Engineer

Your next role: AI Engineer, Workflow AI Architect, AI QA Architect, RPA and Agentic Automation Developer

Turn your automation experience into practical AI engineering skills. Build LLM applications, RAG systems, AI agents, and intelligent test automation frameworks through guided, hands-on projects.

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Video transcript: From Automation Engineer to AI Engineer. Design, build and prove real AI systems in graded labs. AI Architecture, retrieval: a user asks a question; your app (an API with guardrails, in your AWS account) searches a vector index built from your documents in S3, and a Bedrock model answers with citations. Guardrails, least-privilege IAM, citations checked. AI Architecture, agents: a router sends a refund request to the billing agent, which uses tools through MCP; a person approves refunds; every run is logged and traced. Automation, quality engineering: a code change runs through CI, Playwright browser and API tests and an AI evaluation gate; it is released if the gate passes and blocked if quality drops. Video and trace replay, evaluations in CI, release gates. Workflow Automation: an invoice arrives by email, a UiPath robot reads and queues it, an AI agent extracts the fields, a person approves amounts over the limit, and it is paid and recorded in the ERP. Human in the loop, audit trail, exceptions handled. How every lab works: set up safely in your own cloud account, build it step by step, get graded, clean up. AI Coach, mock interviews, certification prep. a2ai Labs. Start free at learn.a2ailabs.com.

Skills employers hire for

Learn each one by building it in a graded lab.

Test automation

  • Playwright test automation
  • AI test evaluation
  • Agent evaluations
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AI engineering

  • LLM application engineering
  • Context grounding (RAG)
  • MCP tool servers
  • LangGraph multi-agent
  • AI governance and guardrails
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Workflow automation

  • UiPath Orchestrator
  • RPA with REFramework
  • Queues and process robots
  • UiPath Agent Builder
  • Agentic automation
  • Human-in-the-loop approvals
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How it works

Graded labs where you build the real thing.

  1. Step 1

    Learn the idea

    Every lesson starts from the words you need, a picture and a worked example, before any code.

  2. Step 2

    Build the real thing

    In your own cloud account or a browser simulation, with a budget alert and least-privilege access.

  3. Step 3

    Get graded

    The lab checks what you built and tells you what is wrong, not just whether you finished.

  4. Step 4

    Prove it

    Explain it in a mock interview scored against what junior to staff engineers are expected to say.

US jobs and pay

The highest-paid roles these skills lead to.

US pay, openings and growth from official BLS data.

  1. #1 highest paid+22% by 2035

    AI Architect

    US pay, top 10% earn more than

    $230,630

    Estimate from the closest BLS occupation: top 10% of US computer and information research scientists.

    2,900 openings a year

    BLS source for AI Architect (opens in a new tab)
  2. #3 highest paid+10% by 2035

    AI QE Architect

    US pay, top 10% earn more than

    $167,010

    Estimate from the closest BLS occupation: top 10% of US software quality assurance analysts and testers.

    106,100 openings a year

    BLS source for AI QE Architect (opens in a new tab)

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook (Median pay May 2025 · projections 2025–35 · read October 2026). BLS does not publish pay under these job titles: each role is shown against its closest occupation, at the median or, for senior and architect roles, the top 10%. Openings and growth are for the whole occupation. These are US-wide estimates, not job postings and not a promise of pay.

Why a2ai Labs

Help is built into every lesson.

AI Coach and your notebook

An AI Coach on every page that explains, answers and gives hints that get more specific each time. Your notebook saves what you highlight; Python notebooks run code in the browser.

Answers, explained

Coding practice with tests in your browser, then the answer step by step: the idea, each step, the complexity and working code.

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Certification paths

Concepts, labs, then timed full-length mock exams with scores by domain, from AWS Certified AI Practitioner to Solutions Architect Professional and Google Cloud.

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1:1 mentorship

Review your lab or architecture, practise an interview or plan your path with the instructor.

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Pricing

Start free. One plan opens everything.

Prices in US dollars, billed monthly, cancel anytime.

Free

$0

  • A full free lesson
  • LLM Foundations and LLM Chatbot with a free account
  • Coding Practice
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All-Access

$29 / month

  • Every course, lab course and learning path
  • Graded labs on real tools, with video and trace replay
  • Cloud certification paths with full-length mock exams
  • Interview prep, scored mock interviews and the AI Coach
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Career transition program · founding cohort

Automation to AI Engineering: $799 (proposed)

From Automation Engineer to AI Engineer. Twelve weeks, instructor-led, with two portfolio projects.

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Bootcamp · founding cohort

Enterprise AI Architecture Bootcamp: $899

From AI Prototype to Enterprise-Ready Architecture. Six weeks, instructor-led, with an architecture capstone.

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For teams

Turn AI ambition into teams that deliver.

Most companies already know what they want to automate. The gap is people who can build it safely, prove it works and run it in production.

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Less manual work

Teams learn to find rule-based work worth automating and to build the workflows and agents that take it off people's desks.

Faster, safer releases

Automated tests and quality gates on every change, so speed does not come at the cost of outages.

AI that passes review

Evaluations, guardrails, human approval and audit trails are taught from the first lesson.

Skills you can verify

Graded labs, timed mock exams and scored mock interviews show who can actually do the work.

Questions

Team access and early access

Bring a2ai Labs to your team.

Tell us about your team and what you want to automate. We will reply with a plan for your roles, and early sign-ups get first access to new paths and courses.

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