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AI-209 AI & Data

GPU Engineering for AI (CUDA · cuDNN · TensorRT)

Understand and exploit the hardware layer: GPU architecture, memory hierarchies, CUDA execution model, cuDNN's role, profiling real workloads, and compiling models with TensorRT to hit hard latency SLOs. Learners profile a slow pipeline and ship a measured speedup.

B5Advanced
5modules
33skill atoms
2role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 33 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1GPU Architecture7 skill atoms
SMsmemory hierarchyoccupancy intuitionwarps & threadsHBM vs shared memorytensor coresroofline thinking
2CUDA Execution Model7 skill atoms
kernelsstreamshost/device transfer costsgrid & block dimensionspinned memoryasync copiesPCIe vs NVLink
3Profiling Discipline6 skill atoms
nsight-style profilingbottleneck taxonomykernel timeline readingmemory-bound vs compute-bounddata-loader stallsrepeatable benchmark harness
4TensorRT Optimization7 skill atoms
graph compilationprecision modesengineslayer & tensor fusionFP16/INT8 calibrationdynamic shape profilesaccuracy validation after conversion
5SLO Lab6 skill atoms
meet a line-speed latency targetevidence reportp50/p95/p99 capturebatch size sweepconcurrency tuningbefore/after speedup evidence
Where it fits

AI-209 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 2 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

MLOps / LLMOps Engineer

Professional stage
AI-402AI-209CL-403

AI Infrastructure Engineer

Capstone stage
AI-220AI-209AI-312

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B5.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run AI-209 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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