In this Specialization, you’ll gain hands-on experience developing AI agents using Python, OpenAI tools, and prompt engineering techniques. You’ll learn to design agent architectures, implement tool use and memory, build custom GPTs, and apply best practices for responsible, trustworthy AI. By the end, you’ll be able to create and deploy intelligent software agents for real-world tasks across a range of industries.
AI Agent Developer Specialization
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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.
Instructor: Dr. Jules White
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2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Share your expertise with employers
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.
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April 2025
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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 Development Tools
Category: Prototyping
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Generative AI Agents
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Software Documentation
Category: File Management
Category: Application Development
Category: Design Strategies
Category: Interoperability
Category: Systems Integration
Category: OpenAI
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: Agentic systems
Category: Persona Development
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Business Logic
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Collaborative Software
Category: Plan Execution
Category: Transaction Processing
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Persona (User Experience)
Category: Generative AI Agents
What you'll learn
Skills you'll gain
Category: AI Personalization
Category: Generative AI
Category: Innovation
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Expense Management
Category: Travel Arrangements
Category: Scenario Testing
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Productivity Software
Category: Personalized Service
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: Brainstorming
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Large Language Modeling
Category: Collaboration
Category: Ingenuity
Category: Generative AI
Category: Creative Thinking
Category: Problem Solving
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Application Development
Category: Productivity
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: ChatGPT
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Creativity
Category: Information Management
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Data Presentation
Category: File Management
Category: Document Management
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Automation
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Generative AI
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: Data Validation
Category: Verification And Validation
Category: ChatGPT
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Human Centered Design
Category: Risk Management Framework
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Prompt Engineering
Category: Ideation
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Frequently asked questions
This Specialization is designed for learners with basic Python programming experience. No prior knowledge of AI or machine learning is required.
We recommend taking the AI Agents & Agentic AI with Python course first, followed by Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT. The remaining courses can be taken in any order.
What You Will Be Able to Do Upon Completing the Specialization:
• Design and implement AI agents using modular, agentic architectures
• Build and deploy agents that use tools, memory, and reasoning
• Create and customize GPT-based assistants with OpenAI tools
• Engineer effective prompts to steer AI behavior and outputs
• Apply principles of trustworthy, responsible AI in real-world systems
• Develop and test agentic software for practical, professional use cases
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