Launch your AI career with MIT’s online courses
By Katherine Ouellette
AI is rapidly transforming many industries — and the World Economic Forum expects it to become a “core” skill for workers by 2030. After building a foundation in the basic principles of AI, jumpstart your career in five different paths with online courses and resources from MIT Open Learning.
Autonomous vehicle engineer
Autonomous vehicle engineers use AI and machine learning to power the decision-making capabilities of modes of transport as they navigate across land, above or below water, or through air and space.
Fields
- Astronautics
- Aviation
- Automotive
- Government
- Marine robotics
- Transportation
Free courses
- Cognitive Robotics
- How to AI (Almost) Anything
- Minds and Machines
- Machine Vision
- Machine Learning for Inverse Graphics
- Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
- Principles of Automatic Control
- Robotic Manipulation
- Signals, Systems, and Inference
- Underactuated Robotics
- Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles
Paid courses and programs for working professionals
- Deep Learning: Mastering Neural Networks
- Designing and Building AI Products and Services
- Driving Innovation with Generative AI
- AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI
- Robotics Essentials
- Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems
Renewable energy engineer
Renewable energy engineers design technologies and systems that harness power from sustainable sources, fueling our homes, vehicles, and communities for generations to come without depleting natural resources or causing further harm to the environment.
Fields
- Solar
- Wind
- Geothermal
- Biofuel
- Hydropower
- Water management
- Energy storage
- Electricity grid design
- Sustainable forestry
- Government
Free courses
- Sustainable Energy
- Resolving Renewable Energy Siting Disputes
- Urban Energy Systems and Policy
- Principles of Modeling, Simulations, and Control for Electric Energy Systems
- Environmental Justice Law and Policy
- Environmental Justice, Science and Technology
- Energy, Environment, and Society: Global Politics, Technologies, and Ecologies of the Water-Energy-Food Crises
- Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion
- Qualitative Research Methods: Data Coding and Analysis
Paid courses and programs for working professionals
- Designing and Building AI Products and Services
- Deploying AI for Strategic Impact
- Predictive Artificial Intelligence
- Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems
FinTech engineer
FinTech engineers build software systems behind financial technologies that manage portfolios, predict risk, detect and prevent fraud, and more.
Fields
- Banking
- Blockchain
- Investment
- Trading
Free courses
- FinTech: Shaping the Financial World
- Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance
- Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance
- Derivatives Markets: Advanced Modeling and Strategies
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior
- Consumer Finance: Markets, Product Design, and FinTech
- Finance and Society
- Blockchain and Money
- Algorithmic Aspects of Machine Learning
Paid courses and programs for working professionals
- MITx MicroMasters Program in Finance
- AI and Cybersecurity: Strategies for Resilience and Defense
- Cybersecurity for Technical Leaders
- Driving Innovation with Generative AI
- Designing and Building AI Products and Services
- Deploying AI for Strategic Impact
- AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI
- Predictive Artificial Intelligence
- Executive Certificate in AI Strategy and Product Innovation
AI ethics specialists
AI ethics specialists highlight the potential biases and dangers posed by various use cases of artificial intelligence and propose proactive measures, such as diverse training data, transparent modeling decisions, and audits.
Fields
- Business
- Finance
- Government
- Health care
- Technology
Free courses
- Ethics of AI Bias
- Ethics for Engineers: Artificial Intelligence
- Ethics of Technology
- Exploring Fairness in Machine Learning for International Development
- Foundations of Information Policy
- Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes
- Minds and Machines
- Cultures of Computing
- Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power
- Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
Paid courses and programs for working professionals
- Driving Innovation with Generative AI
- Designing and Building AI Products and Services
- AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Fundamentals and Applications
Product manager
AI product managers align and improve their business’ AI-powered commodity or service with the needs of the consumers.
Fields
- Business
- Biotech
- Manufacturing
- Marketing and communications
- Social media
- Technology
Free courses
- Foundation Models and Generative AI
- How to AI (Almost) Anything
- Ethics for Engineers: Artificial Intelligence
- Ethics of Technology
- NEET Ways of Thinking
- Product Engineering Process
- Risk and Decision Analysis
Paid courses and programs for working professionals
- AI-Driven Computational Design
- Designing and Building AI Products and Services
- Driving Innovation with Generative AI
- Deploying AI for Strategic Impact
- AI Strategy and Leadership Program: Thriving in the New World of AI
- Predictive Artificial Intelligence
- Executive Certificate in AI Strategy and Product Innovation
- AI and Cybersecurity: Strategies for Resilience and Defense
- Cybersecurity for Technical Leaders
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Fundamentals and Applications
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