Vanderbilt University
AI Agent Developer Specialization

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Vanderbilt University

AI Agent Developer Specialization

Master Skills of an AI Agent Software Developer. Learn to design, build, and refine intelligent software agents using Python, generative AI, and agentic architectures for real-world applications.

Dr. Jules White

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.8

(398 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • • How to build and deploy intelligent AI agents using Python, tools, memory, and reasoning.

  • • How to create custom GPTs and apply prompt engineering techniques for real-world tasks.

  • • How to design trustworthy, responsible AI systems aligned with best practices.

Skills you'll gain

  • Category: Prompt Engineering
  • Category: Productivity
  • Category: OpenAI
  • Category: ChatGPT
  • Category: Verification And Validation
  • Category: Agentic systems
  • Category: Document Management
  • Category: Artificial Intelligence
  • Category: Generative AI
  • Category: Risk Management Framework
  • Category: Ideation
  • Category: Large Language Modeling

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Specialization - 6 course series

What you'll learn

  • Build a complete AI agent framework in Python, creating each component yourself to gain deep understanding of how agents work

  • Design tool discovery systems and function calling mechanisms that allow your agents to interact with external systems and perform meaningful actions

  • Create practical, production-ready agents for tasks like intelligent file exploration, documentation generation, and coding

Skills you'll gain

Category: Agentic systems
Category: Software Documentation
Category: OpenAI
Category: Application Development
Category: Design Strategies
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: File Management
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Software Development Tools
Category: Systems Integration
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Interoperability
Category: Prototyping

What you'll learn

  • How to implement agents that can dynamically adopt different expert personas and reason with or transform unstructured data

  • Techniques for building Multi-Agent Collaboration Systems in Python that support sophisticated memory sharing and intelligent coordination

  • How to implement Trustworthy and Safe Agent Architectures in Python using staged execution, reversible actions, and safety patterns

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Agentic systems
Category: Persona Development
Category: Business Logic
Category: Persona (User Experience)
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Plan Execution
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Transaction Processing

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: AI Personalization
Category: Generative AI
Category: Travel Arrangements
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Expense Management
Category: Scenario Testing
Category: Productivity Software
Category: Personalized Service
Category: Innovation
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Prompt Engineering

What you'll learn

  • How to apply prompt engineering to effectively work with large language models, like ChatGPT

  • How to use prompt patterns to tap into powerful capabilities within large language models

  • How to create complex prompt-based applications for your life, business, or education

Skills you'll gain

Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Collaboration
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Generative AI
Category: Creative Thinking
Category: Application Development
Category: Productivity
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Brainstorming
Category: Ingenuity
Category: Artificial Intelligence

What you'll learn

  • Automate tasks in your work and life with ChatGPT Code Interpreter

    Automate reading and creating PDFs, PowerPoint, Excel, images, video, and more

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Problem Solving
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Data Presentation
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Information Management
Category: Creativity
Category: Generative AI
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: File Management
Category: Automation
Category: Document Management
Trustworthy Generative AI

Trustworthy Generative AI

Course 68 hours

What you'll learn

  • What problems actually make sense to solve with Generative AI

  • How to frame problems and prompt engineer to produce more trustworthy results from Generative AI

Skills you'll gain

Category: Generative AI
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Data Validation
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: Ideation
Category: Data Ethics

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Dr. Jules White

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