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AI System Design for Engineers and Interviews
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178 students

AI System Design for Engineers and Interviews

Design production ready AI systems through real world case studies on LLMs, AI Agents, Kafka, Kubernetes and ML at scale
Created byAritra Basak
Last updated 6/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Design production ready AI systems by translating business requirements into scalable architectures.
  • Architect modern AI applications using LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, Vector Databases, Kafka, Redis, and Kubernetes.
  • Analyze real world engineering trade-offs involving scalability, reliability, latency, throughput, and cost optimization.
  • Design Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision systems used in production environments.
  • Understand MLOps pipelines for model training, deployment, monitoring, and drift detection
  • Evaluate and choose the right architecture patterns for AI platforms, inference systems, data pipelines, and distributed services.
  • Break down complex AI products into scalable system components and communicate architecture decisions with confidence.
  • Understand how leading technology companies design and scale AI systems serving thousands to millions of users.
  • Approach AI System Design and Machine Learning System Design interview questions using a structured engineering framework.

Course content

14 sections41 lectures8h 34m total length
  • Course Expectations & Prerequisites3:02
  • How to Get the Most Out of This Course (Important Guide Before You Start)0:19

Requirements

  • Familiarity with software engineering fundamentals such as coding, APIs, databases, caching, and application deployment will help you get the most value from this course.
  • A basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning concepts, including LLMs, NLP, Computer Vision, or modern AI applications, is recommended.
  • This course focuses on architecture and system design discussions rather than implementation, so learners should be comfortable understanding technical workflows, engineering trade-offs, and production system concepts.

Description

Most engineers can build AI applications.

Very few engineers can design AI systems that scale.

As AI adoption grows, companies need engineers who understand not just models and APIs, but also the architecture, scalability, reliability, and infrastructure behind production AI systems.

This course focuses entirely on AI System Design and teaches how modern AI products are architected, scaled, and optimized in real world environments.

Through practical case studies, you will learn how technologies such as LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Vector Databases, FastAPI, Databricks, and modern MLOps and LLMOps pipelines work together to power enterprise AI applications. You will also learn architecture patterns used in Machine Learning, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Semi Supervised Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision systems.

Whether you are transitioning into AI Engineering, preparing for AI System Design interviews, or building AI powered products, this course will help you think like a Senior AI Engineer and AI Architect.

What You Will Learn

  • Design end to end AI systems from requirements to architecture

  • Design scalable Machine Learning systems for production environments

  • Understand architecture patterns for Supervised Learning systems

  • Design Unsupervised Learning and clustering systems at scale

  • Learn how Semi Supervised Learning systems are deployed in production

  • Design Natural Language Processing applications using modern AI architectures

  • Understand Computer Vision system design and inference pipelines

  • Build scalable LLM and Generative AI applications

  • Design production ready RAG systems

  • Understand Vector Databases and Semantic Search

  • Architect AI Agent and Multi Agent systems

  • Learn Kafka based event driven architectures

  • Design caching systems using Redis

  • Understand Kubernetes for AI workloads

  • Learn batch and real time inference architectures

  • Optimize AI systems for latency, reliability, and cost

  • Evaluate real world engineering trade offs

  • Approach AI System Design interviews with confidence

Real World AI System Design Case Studies

  • Google CTR Prediction System

  • HubSpot User Clustering System

  • Facebook Content Moderation System

  • AI Grammar Checker SaaS Platform

  • AI Interview Chatbot System

  • Smart Car Parking System using Computer Vision

  • Deep Research AI Agent

  • Autonomous Travel Booking Agent

Each case study focuses on architecture decisions, scalability challenges, infrastructure design, MLOps and LLMOps workflows, Machine Learning pipelines, Natural Language Processing systems, Computer Vision workloads, and production engineering trade-offs.

Why This Course Is Different

Most AI courses focus on:

  • Prompt Engineering

  • Framework Tutorials

  • Chatbot Projects

  • API Integrations

This course focuses on:

  • AI System Design

  • Production AI Architecture

  • MLOps and LLMOps

  • Scalability and Reliability

  • Distributed Systems

  • Infrastructure Design

  • Real World Engineering Thinking

You will learn how experienced engineers design AI systems that can scale beyond prototypes and demos.

Important Note

This is an architecture focused course.

This course does NOT include:

  • Coding projects

  • Model training exercises

  • Deployment labs

Instead, the focus is entirely on:

  • System Design

  • Architecture Diagrams

  • Engineering Trade Offs

  • Production AI Thinking

Who This Course Is For

  • Software Engineers transitioning into AI Engineering

  • AI and ML Engineers

  • Backend Engineers building AI products

  • Engineers preparing for AI System Design interviews

  • Technical Architects designing AI platforms

By The End Of This Course

You will be able to:

Design production ready AI systems

Architect scalable LLM, RAG, and AI Agent applications

Understand real world AI infrastructure, MLOps, and LLMOps ecosystems

Make better architecture decisions

Think like a Senior AI Engineer and AI Architect

If you want to move beyond AI tutorials and understand how real-world AI systems are architected and scaled, this course is for you.

Who this course is for:

  • Software Engineers who want to transition into AI Engineering and learn how production AI systems are architected and scaled.
  • AI Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers looking to strengthen their AI System Design and architecture skills beyond model development.
  • Backend Engineers building AI powered applications using LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, Vector Databases, and modern AI infrastructure.
  • Engineers preparing for AI System Design, Machine Learning System Design, or Senior Engineering interviews.
  • Technical Architects and Engineering Leaders responsible for designing scalable AI platforms and enterprise AI solutions.
  • Developers who already understand software development fundamentals and want to learn how real-world AI products are designed, optimized, and operated at scale.