Announcing the AI Developer Bootcamp

I’m excited to share something we’ve been working on: the TechEmpower AI Developer Bootcamp. This is a hands-on program for developers who want to build real LLM-powered applications and graduate with a project they can show to employers.

The idea is simple: you learn by building. Over 6–12 weeks, participants ship projects to GitHub, get reviews from senior engineers, and collaborate with peers through Slack and office hours. By the end, you’ll have a working AI agent repo, a story to tell in interviews, and practical experience with the same tools we use in production every day.

Now, some context on why we’re launching this. Over the past year, we’ve noticed that both recent grads and experienced engineers are struggling to break into new roles. The job market is challenging right now, but one area of real growth is software that uses LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as part of production-grade systems. That’s the work we’re doing every day at TechEmpower, and it’s exactly the skill set this Bootcamp is designed to teach.

We’ve already run smaller cohorts, and the results have been encouraging. For some participants, it’s been a bridge from graduation to their first job. For others, it’s been a way to retool mid-career and stay current. In a few cases, it’s even become a pipeline into our own engineering team.

Our next cohort starts October 20. Tuition is $4,000, with discounts and scholarships available. If you know a developer who’s looking to level up with AI, please pass this along.

Learn more and apply here