Applied AI/ML Engineering
31 October – 19 December · Hybrid, Saturdays onsite in Yogyakarta
Work with an international Product Owner on a real client case
You leave with two deployed cases.
Win the 24–25 October hackathon and this programme costs nothing. Three winning groups, up to three people each. →
Eight weeks, and your portfolio stops looking like coursework.
One case from a real client, one AI product of your own. Both deployed, both openable by someone else.
Two deployed cases
One from a real client, one AI product of your own that you pitch. Both go into your portfolio with an address people can open.
A professionally recorded demo day
Recording at a quality you can send to a recruiter, judged by people from the industry rather than only by us.
Internship connections
Introduced to real clients. Top graduates continue on a paid internship with Universa Academy.
1-on-1 mentoring and mock interviews
Career review and interview practice with people who have sat on the other side of the table.
An international Product Owner, every week, in English
This is the least comfortable part and the most useful. You report to someone who does not know you and judges only what runs.
- • Weekly standups with an international Product Owner, in English.
- • Deadlines that come from outside, not from your own group agreement.
- • Feedback read off a working product, not off good intentions.
- • How to talk about your work to non-technical people, which is what interviews test.
Three phases, two products, one demo day
AI/ML foundations that survive production
Not a theory course. You build components that go into both of your cases later.
- + Retrieval, evaluation and tooling people actually use
- + Build a system that can refuse, not one that always answers
- + Cost and latency: when your system stops being usable
A real client case with your Product Owner
Your team takes one client brief. Weekly standups in English, deadlines from outside.
- + A real brief, a real scope, and someone waiting for it
- + Weekly standups with your international Product Owner
- + Deploy, then fix based on use rather than on plans
Your own AI product and demo day
One product you choose, build, and pitch in front of industry people.
- + Build and deploy your own AI product
- + Pitch practice, then a professionally recorded demo day
- + Career review and a 1-on-1 mock interview
- ✓ You can already build and deploy something, and now you want a heavier case.
- ✓ You are ready to be judged in English by an outsider every week.
- ✓ You need a portfolio a recruiter can open, not a list of courses.
- × You have never deployed anything. Start with the first programme.
- × You do not want to present in English.
- × You cannot make Saturdays in Yogyakarta.
This is a separate programme with two ways in
Apply directly, or win the 24–25 October hackathon and come in free. The first programme helps but is not required.
Take your place.
Leave your details. We reach you on WhatsApp for a short interview and a technical readiness check.
Before you apply.
No, but you need to have deployed something before. If you have not, the three-week first programme is what makes these eight weeks make sense.
By 19 December you have two deployed cases and a recorded demo day
Starts 31 October. Hybrid in Yogyakarta. Free for hackathon winners.