The new way to become a software engineer.
A structured, hands-on AI engineering curriculum — from your first line of code to shipping AI-native products. Pick a career path, learn lesson by lesson, prove what you know with quizzes, and build artifacts you can show.
Free forever · No experience needed · Learn at your own pace
The curriculum by the numbers
- 523
- Hands-on lessons
- 20
- Curriculum phases
- 12
- Learning paths
- 373
- Knowledge-check quizzes
- 250
- Glossary terms
6 career routes + 6 topics
From zero to hired, in three moves
Every career route is the same loop: pick it, work it, prove it.
Pick a career path
Choose from six career routes — applied AI engineer, data, evals, DevRel, agentic, forward-deployed — each with a clear outcome and the exact lessons to get there.
Learn lesson by lesson
Work through focused, hands-on lessons in order. Every lesson is one idea with working code — no 40-minute videos to sit through.
Prove it with quizzes
Check yourself with pre/post quizzes on each lesson and finish every stage by building the artifact — working code you can show a hiring manager.
Twelve paths, one curriculum
Career routes take you from fundamentals to a portfolio artifact; topic paths go deep on one subject — all drawing from one shared lesson corpus.
More than a wall of links
The curriculum itself is open — but the free upstream site is a static list of links with no accounts, no progress, and no guidance. The New Engineer wraps the same content in a practice layer:
Frequently asked questions
The honest answers to the questions everyone asks first.
Ready when you are
Create a free account and start your first lesson in minutes — no card, no trial clock, nothing to cancel.