For universities
Turn your students into
production-ready
AI engineers.
Partner with DolfynAI to add what a curriculum alone cannot: a real business problem, mentors from leading technology companies, and a product your students ship to real users before they graduate.
Industry mentors
who ship AI daily
Live AI projects
real customers, real constraints
Portfolio that gets
interviews
Runs alongside
your curriculum
Bridging the employability gap
From strong graduates
to proven builders.
Employers now rank job-ready technical skill as their top hiring priority. Your students have the fundamentals — the fellowship adds the missing half: a real customer problem, taken to production, before they graduate.
Universities
Strong fundamentals, limited exposure to production
The skill gap
Graduates rarely arrive having shipped
Real projects
Production-grade AI systems, built for real users
Employers
Need engineers who are useful from day one
Job market
High demand, few qualified candidates
Job ready
Hired faster, contributing sooner
↙ The gap is real. We bridge it — together. ↘
The degree alone
Strong theoreticalfoundation
Assignments assessedagainst a rubric
Projects that endwhen the term ends
Limited contact withproduction systems
Graduates compete onmarks & certificates
The degree + the fellowship
Same foundation,applied to a live problem
Work reviewed byengineers who ship daily
Product stays liveafter the term ends
Security, reliability,evaluation, deployment
Graduates compete onwork employers can open
The partnership
What your students get.
A real engineering experience that runs alongside your curriculum — led by people who build AI for a living.
Real projects, not toy datasets
Students build production-grade AI systems for real users — the kind of work that fills a portfolio employers trust.
Mentors from leading companies
Engineers from Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, Amazon and Meta review student work weekly and share how production AI is actually built.
Runs alongside your curriculum
Cohort-based and flexible — designed to complement your existing programs, not compete with them.
A portfolio that gets interviews
Every student leaves with shipped work to point to — verifiable proof of real experience, not just a transcript.
Placement-ready outcomes
Experience that maps directly to what AI employers hire for, with certificates earned at every stage of the fellowship.
Industry aligned
Built to real production standards.
Hands-on from day one
Students build, ship and iterate.
Scales to any institution
Cohorts of up to 60 students.
Measurable impact
Outcomes your placement cell can report.
How it works
From partnership to placement.
Partner
Design the cohort. We shape the programme around your students, academic calendar and placement goals.
Build
Ninety days on campus. Students take on a real AI problem and build it to a working product, mentored by practitioners.
Ship
Live, in front of users. They deliver a working system to real users and leave with a portfolio that stands up to scrutiny.
Hire
Job-ready and visible. Graduates enter the market already proven — and visible to our hiring partners.
Forward Deployed Engineers don't hand over software and walk away — they sit with the customer, learn the problem, and ship what actually works in the real world.
Palantir — on Forward Deployed Engineering
For partners
Questions universities ask.
We co-design a fellowship for your students — scoped to your academic calendar and placement goals — then run it as a real engineering experience with industry mentors. Students build production-grade AI and finish with a portfolio of shipped work.
Give your students a real edge.
Let's design a fellowship that turns your students into production-ready AI engineers.