The TAI Labs Community
Get an AI job — with the people, the coaching and the proof to do it
This is career support for AI engineering and AI product roles: CV and role-fit reviews, unlimited AI mock interviews, weekly plans, job leads, coaching and certification tracks to prove the skill. Membership is $29.99/mo for the founding 100, then $49/mo.
Who's in the room with you
Aki Wijesundara, PhD
Jointly runs TAI Labs
Years of building production AI systems, Head of Machine Learning and AI at Mainstreet Partners, ex-Google AI Accelerator, Google AI mentor, and CTO of Tilli (Stanford-backed edtech).
Manu Jayawardana
Jointly runs TAI Labs
Years of AI experience at Fortune 500 companies, exited AI founder — built and sold Rise AI (35,000-user fintech platform), holds patents in multi-agent systems, and has supported hundreds of students breaking into top companies across product and engineering.
Together they teach AI engineering, AI product management, AI growth & GTM, and many more — and have helped thousands of people secure jobs at FAANG companies, crack interviews and leetcode, work case studies, manage their careers and networks, and land referrals.
10,000+
professionals trained
4.8/5
across 100+ verified reviews
Where the 10,000+ people we've trained work — and where our members get hired
Outcomes
Real people, real roles, real locations
Every name below is a member or learner who let us publish their move. Career support is the product; the certificates are the evidence they carried into the room.
“Landed a Forward Deployed AI Engineer role at Google after a full career change.”
“Gave me the structure, mentorship, and hands-on experience I needed to break into AI engineering.”
“Built the positioning and interview reps to move into a full-time AI product role.”
“Two competing offers — Google and TikTok — out of the coaching job-search plan.”
Who teaches you
Pick your goal — see who teaches it
Manu and Aki jointly run TAI Labs and teach the tracks themselves, backed by a bench of 20+ guest practitioners from FAANG and Fortune 500 companies. Choose where you're heading and the page narrows to the tracks that get you there.
Manu and Aki teach every track themselves — plus a bench of 20+ practitioners across FAANG and Fortune 500 companies who run guest sessions, AMAs and interview panels inside the community.
Your goal
Land an AI engineer role: production agents, retrieval and evals you can defend in an interview.
Who teaches it
Aki Wijesundara, PhD
AI engineering · Evaluation · Enterprise delivery
Agents & multi-agent systems
Design, tool use, orchestration and failure handling — built to run, not to demo.
RAG & retrieval quality
Chunking, hybrid search, grounding and the retrieval metrics interviewers probe.
Evals & reliability
Offline and online evals, regression suites and how to prove a system got better.
Interview drills
Agent design rounds, system design, leetcode and take-homes — scored with feedback.
AI engineering
Building production agents, RAG, evals and multi-agent systems — the work that gets you hired as an AI engineer.
AI product management
Product judgement for AI features: scoping, evals, stakeholder cases and shipping agentic products that work.
AI growth & GTM
Growth loops, cold outreach, GTM playbooks and launch templates for AI-native products and teams.
AI automation & agents
n8n, Claude Code and tooling to build repeatable agentic workflows on your real work.
AI content & creative
Veo, Nano Banana and the creative toolchain for short-form video and brand work that converts.
Career & interviews
Leetcode, system design, case-study drills, CV reviews and referral playbooks — the career coaching layer on every track.
The career engine
Most of what you pay for is the job search, not the videos
Courses are everywhere. What people are missing is someone reading their CV against a real posting, running the interview with them, and telling them what to do next week.
CV & role-fit review
Your CV read against real AI engineering and AI product postings, with the gaps named and a rewrite you can send this week.
AI mock interviews
Unlimited reps on the interviews that actually decide it: agent design, evals, RAG, product judgement, stakeholder cases — scored, with feedback.
Weekly job-search plan
A short, specific plan each week — who to contact, what to ship, what to practise — instead of another 40-hour course you never finish.
Job leads & referrals
Roles and intros posted in the member lounge by the team and by members already inside these companies.
How career support works
A loop, not a library
Career support runs as a repeatable loop — review, rehearse, apply, network, refer — and it repeats every week until the offer lands.
- 01
CV & role-fit review
Your CV read against a live AI engineering or AI product posting. Gaps named, keywords fixed, and a rewrite you can send this week.
- 02
Mock interviews
Unlimited reps on the interviews that decide it — agent design, evals, RAG, product judgement, leetcode and case studies. Scored, with feedback.
- 03
Job leads
Real roles posted in the member lounge by the team and by members already inside FAANG and frontier-AI companies.
- 04
Networking
Intros, office hours and a community of people who've made the same move — so your network is doing the work, not just your applications.
- 05
Referrals
Referral routes into the companies on this page, plus the outreach templates and follow-up cadence that turn a lead into a referral.
- 06
Offer & negotiation
When the offer lands, salary and offer teardowns on your own numbers — in the Inner Circle, on your own work.
Cracked the interview
From prep to FAANG offers
Members who've put the loop to work — named, with the company and the move.
“Landed a Forward Deployed AI Engineer role at Google after a full career change.”
Zainab Ahmed-SafeerGoogle · Chicago, IL “Gave me the structure, mentorship, and hands-on experience I needed to break into AI engineering.”
Bernard GriffinAI Engineer, Capital One · Virginia “Built the positioning and interview reps to move into a full-time AI product role.”
Beni GoldenbergAI Product Manager · Dallas, TX “Two competing offers — Google and TikTok — out of the coaching job-search plan.”
JayAI Engineer · San Francisco, CA “Anyone interested in building foundational AI knowledge should take this training — it's worth the investment.”
Dr. Elizabeth CreightonFounder & Principal · Brazen
What's inside
One login: community, classroom, calendar and career tools
The feed
Introductions, offers landed and ask-anything threads. Questions get answered by practitioners, not left to rot.
Classroom
Certification tracks with graded labs and verifiable certificates — the proof you attach to the applications. Module one is free.
Live calendar
Welcome calls, member office hours and Inner Circle coaching in one calendar, with replays in your timezone.
Points that mean something
You level up for interviews done, CVs reviewed and certificates claimed — the actions that get people hired, not for posting noise.
Founding member pricing
The first 100 members pay less, permanently
Member is $29.99/mo for the founding 100, then $49/mo. Inner Circle is $199/mo for the first 25 seats, then $299/mo. Founding members keep their rate for as long as they stay subscribed.
Community
$0
free forever, no card
The room where people actually change careers. Free to join, members only to read.
- Every public category: introductions, offers landed, ask anything
- Monthly community welcome call
- Every standalone video in the library
- Points, levels and the leaderboard
Member
$29.99
per month · or $249 / year
The career engine: CV and role-fit reviews, AI mock interviews, a weekly job-search plan, plus every certification track to prove it.
- Career studio: CV review, role-fit scoring, weekly job-search plan
- Unlimited AI mock interviews for AI engineering and AI product roles
- Member lounge — job leads, referrals, offer and salary questions
- Every certification track and verifiable certificate
- Weekly member office hours plus replays
Inner Circle
$199
per month · cancel anytime
Manu and Aki in the room with you: small-group coaching on your search, your portfolio and your offers.
- Everything in Member
- Fortnightly small-group coaching calls (cameras on)
- Private Inner Circle category and direct asks
- Portfolio, pricing and offer teardowns on your own work
Compare the plans line by line
What the founding 100 get at $29.99/mo, what the price becomes afterwards, and exactly where Inner Circle differs.
| What's included | Community$0free forever, no card | Member$29.99/mofirst 100 members · then $49/mo Most popular | Inner Circle$199/mofirst 25 seats · then $299/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community feed, introductions & wins | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly welcome call | Included | Included | Included |
| First module of every track | Included | Included | Included |
| Points, levels & leaderboard | Included | Included | Included |
| Every certification track end to end | Not included | Included | Included |
| Verifiable certificates | Not included | Included | Included |
| CV & role-fit review | Not included | 2 business days | 24 hours |
| AI mock interviews | Not included | Unlimited, scored | Unlimited + live teardowns |
| Weekly job-search plan | Not included | Included | Included |
| Member lounge: job leads & referrals | Not included | Included | Included |
| Member office hours | Not included | Weekly + replays | Weekly + replays |
| Small-group coaching with Manu & Aki | Not included | Not included | Fortnightly, cameras on |
| Portfolio, pricing & offer teardowns | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Direct asks in a private category | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Price after founding seats are gone | Stays $0 | $49/mo | $299/mo |
Founding members keep their rate for as long as they stay subscribed. Annual Member billing is $249/year. Cancel any paid plan any time — your free seat and earned certificates stay yours.
Vitality
A leaderboard that rewards getting hired
Levels 1–9, a public leaderboard and a daily streak. Community actions earn points, but career actions earn the most — on purpose.
Daily streak: Open Community, Classroom or Career on any day and your streak carries. Miss a day and it resets to one.
How points work
- Write a post+5
- Reply to someone+2
- Someone likes your post+1
- Finish the welcome setup+10
- Complete your profile+5
- Set your target role+5
- Have your CV reviewed+5
- Tick off a plan step+2
- Complete a lesson+3
- Finish a mock interview+10
- Claim a certificate+25
Membership questions
What membership gets you, and what the certificates are worth
What Member and Inner Circle include, how the founding rate works, and what happens if you cancel.
How career support runs
Turnaround times and what a week looks like
CV reviews, mock interviews, job leads, networking and referrals — how each one works, how fast you get answers, and the weekly rhythm you can expect.
Join at the founding rate while it lasts
Membership is $29.99/mo for the first 100 people, then $49/mo. CV and role-fit reviews, unlimited mock interviews, job leads, office hours and every certification track. Cancel any time.
Become a member — $29.99/mo