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AI Support Engineer

AI / Prompt Support Engineer

Build, integrate and support an LLM-backed feature in production: structure prompts for reliability, ground answers with retrieval, prove a change is an improvement with an eval set, and diagnose why it misbehaves once real users touch it. Assumes you already read Python and can call an HTTP API.
3 learners 4.5 hrs taught · 5.5 to 10 hrs applied 7 modules 28 lessons 6 portfolio artifacts Completion certificate Updated August 2026
Created by the CertClue team
What you'll build

Real portfolio pieces built during the course, not a certificate for its own sake. Each one is work you can show.

  • LLM feature configuration recordOne page covering every setting your feature runs on, with the reason and the evidence behind each value, plus a decision log where each entry records the options considered, what was rejected and how you would know the decision was wrong.
  • Prompt evaluation set with pass and fail criteriaA set of real cases with the context they should be answered from and explicit pass and fail criteria, split into deterministic code checks and human checklist items, reported by group with before and after results across repeated runs.
  • API integration with error handlingWorking, provider-neutral integration code that classifies errors before reacting, backs off with jitter, caps total time, validates model output against facts you already hold, rejects citations to material that was never retrieved, and fails honestly with a defined fallback.
  • Failure triage logOne row per real failure with the exact output, whether it reproduced and at what rate, a forced choice of cause class, the evidence behind that classification, whether it reached a customer, and the evaluation case you added as a result.
  • Rollout and monitoring planA one page plan written before deploying: staged rollout with dwell times, what you watch at each stage, numeric rollback conditions decided in advance, the rollback mechanism, who is watching and when, and the removal condition for anything temporary.
  • Draft edit analysis and baseline edit rateEvery change an experienced agent makes to an assistant draft, recorded with her own reason and a forced choice of where it would have to be fixed: the output contract, the code, or the interface. Carries the baseline edit rate by category, measured from the drafts and sent versions already stored, before anything was changed.

What you'll learn

Fundamentals, kept short
The role decoded: three posts, three very different jobs
A day in the role
The recurring calendar
Live simulation: one week on the Tideline reply assistant
Artifacts: the five things you leave with
Handoff: proving it, and where it leads

Course content · 7 modules, 28 lessons

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The durable model of how these systems behave, at the depth someone who has to support one in production needs. No maths, no model trivia, nothing that expires when the next release lands.

What a language model actually is
Tokens and context as a budget
Why the same input gives different output
Structuring a prompt for reliability
Grounding answers with retrieval, and how retrieval fails
What no prompt can fix

Requirements

  • Comfortable with the fundamentals this course's own Module 1 covers, or equivalent experience.
  • No prior experience in this field is required to start.
  • A computer with a reliable internet connection.
  • Comfortable using a web browser - no software to install.

Description

Every CertClue course follows the same seven-part shape: fundamentals, the role translated out of job-posting language, a real working day, the job's recurring rhythms, a multi-day simulation, the portfolio you build along the way, and a handoff into your next move. Here is what that looks like for ai support engineer.

Who this course is for

Anyone aiming to become a ai support engineer, including career changers with no background in it yet. This is the entry rung of a realistic ladder:

entry
AI Support Engineer

Handles support tickets involving AI-assisted tools, escalates model issues, and helps users get accurate output from prompts.

Prompt troubleshootingTicket triageAI tool support
mid
AI Operations Analyst

Owns AI tool rollout and adoption for a team, tunes prompts and workflows, and tracks where automation is saving real time.

Workflow designPrompt engineeringAdoption tracking
senior
AI Enablement Lead

Sets AI tooling standards across an org, evaluates new tools for safety and value, and trains other teams to use them well.

Tool evaluationGovernanceTraining
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