Design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that power the next generation of digital products.
Over 16–32 weeks, this programme equips you with the technical, engineering, and collaborative skills to design scalable, reliable, and ethical AI-powered systems. Learn methodologies to harness AI effectively — understanding its limits as well as its potential — so you can build products that truly work in the real world. Learn online, your way with coaching, collaboration, and real-world mentored projects. Bring your own project or deploy with one of our 300+ industry partners.
Overview
AI Product Engineers are set to shape the future — not by letting AI take over, but by learning how to use it with skill and purpose. This postgraduate programme gives you the engineering mindset and technical expertise to design, test, and deliver intelligent systems that create measurable value.
You’ll learn how new architectures and patterns integrate AI models and APIs, to speed up development and transformation. Master collaboration practices that turn innovative ideas into scalable products. As you progress, you’ll gain the tools to evaluate AI’s role responsibly — ensuring performance, security, and sustainability are at the heart of your work.
Who This Programme Is For
Perfect for:
If you want to build intelligent systems, not just talk about them — this is your programme.
Build your engineering foundation, then master how to use AI to enhance design, development, and delivery.
Phase 1 – AI-Enabled Collaboration and Productivity
Learn how to work productively and collaboratively in the age of AI.
Before you can build AI products, you must know how to work effectively inside the teams that build them. This is the phase where you learn to work like an AI Product Engineer before you start building like one.
Phase 2 – AI Product Engineering
Learn practical knowledge to design and build AI-enabled systems, including real-life considerations such as system performance and integration with other systems
Phase 3 – Mentored AI Project Experience
Gain real life project experience with mentoring from an industry expert. Work on an industry project or bring your own.
Phase 4 – Future-Proof Careers in the Age of AI
Learn how to stay relevant and facilitate employment and career advancement in the age of AI when skills become obsolete quickly
Build your engineering foundation, then master how to use AI to enhance design, development, and delivery.
The tech industry is faced with a growing skills shortage and the traditional education pathways would not solve this ... which is why we created New Zealand's first tech career accelerator
In Australia, we accept the following as the minimum entry requirement: Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) Level 3 and Year 10 Literacy and numeracy outcomes.
If English is not your first language, you must provide:
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Have a read of our brochure and reach out to our friendly mission ready team to ask questions directly.
Download 2026 BrochureThe traditional idea of an “entry-level” job — low responsibility, lots of hand-holding — is vanishing. In its place is a new kind of role: small team, high ownership, fast learning curve.
This suits the Mission Ready model. You’ll finish the programme having already delivered work for a real client. That shifts you from “graduate” to “junior with experience.”
MBIE’s 2023 labour market update shows persistent demand in NZ for digitally capable workers — especially those who can operate independently. So yes, the jobs are there. But they go to people who show up ready to contribute, not just ready to learn.
