---
title: "STACKIT AI Engineer"
description: "Comprehensive learning path for AI engineers building sovereign AI solutions on STACKIT, from LLMs and agents to MLOps and responsible AI."
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scfTrail:
  maintainers:
    - user: "tobias.mueller"
  tags: ["STACKIT University", "AI", "LLM", "Agents", "MLOps", "Compliance"]
  steps:
    - style: "compass"
      title: "STACKIT Introduction"
      trailContext: "Sovereign cloud vision and a service overview."
      assetId: "advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-introduction"
    - style: "hut"
      title: "STACKIT Portal"
      trailContext: "IAM and resource concepts, project setup, and the cost calculator."
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    - style: "stairs"
      title: "STACKIT Portfolio"
      trailContext: "The full service portfolio: IaaS, PaaS, data, AI, security, and supporting services."
      assetId: "advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portfolio"
    - style: "t-bar"
      title: "Foundations of Cloud AI Engineering"
      trailContext: "Introduction to the AI engineering lifecycle, cloud architectures, and sovereignty requirements."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/foundations-of-cloud-ai-engineering"
    - style: "chairlift"
      title: "LLM Fundamentals"
      trailContext: "Transformer architecture, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/llm-fundamentals"
    - style: "gondola"
      title: "Using the STACKIT AI Model Service"
      trailContext: "Service architecture, API integration, and inference on STACKIT."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/using-stackit-ai-model-service"
    - style: "chart"
      title: "AI Agents Fundamentals"
      trailContext: "Agent systems, MCP and A2A protocols, and multi-agent systems."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/ai-agent-fundamentals"
    - style: "shield"
      title: "MLOps Fundamentals on STACKIT"
      trailContext: "CI/CD for ML models, experiment tracking, and deployment strategies."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/mlops-fundamentals-on-stackit"
    - style: "crevasse"
      title: "Responsible AI and European Compliance"
      trailContext: "EU AI Act, GDPR, and data governance for AI applications."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/responsible-ai-and-european-compliance"
    - style: "summit"
      title: "Capstone: Your Sovereign AI Assistant with OpenClaw"
      trailContext: "Capstone project: end-to-end deployment of a sovereign AI assistant on STACKIT."
      assetId: "data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/capstone-sovereign-ai-agent"
source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/data-and-ai/trails/stackit/ai-engineer/"
source_file: "docs/data-and-ai/trails/stackit/ai-engineer.mdx"
---

## Steps

### 1. STACKIT Introduction

Stage: `compass`

Sovereign cloud vision and a service overview.

Asset: [/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-introduction/](/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-introduction/) — source: [/raw/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-introduction.md](/raw/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-introduction.md)

### 2. STACKIT Portal

Stage: `hut`

IAM and resource concepts, project setup, and the cost calculator.

Asset: [/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portal/](/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portal/) — source: [/raw/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portal.md](/raw/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portal.md)

### 3. STACKIT Portfolio

Stage: `stairs`

The full service portfolio: IaaS, PaaS, data, AI, security, and supporting services.

Asset: [/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portfolio/](/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portfolio/) — source: [/raw/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portfolio.md](/raw/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-portfolio.md)

### 4. Foundations of Cloud AI Engineering

Stage: `t-bar`

Introduction to the AI engineering lifecycle, cloud architectures, and sovereignty requirements.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/foundations-of-cloud-ai-engineering/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/foundations-of-cloud-ai-engineering/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/foundations-of-cloud-ai-engineering.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/foundations-of-cloud-ai-engineering.md)

### 5. LLM Fundamentals

Stage: `chairlift`

Transformer architecture, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/llm-fundamentals/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/llm-fundamentals/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/llm-fundamentals.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/llm-fundamentals.md)

### 6. Using the STACKIT AI Model Service

Stage: `gondola`

Service architecture, API integration, and inference on STACKIT.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/using-stackit-ai-model-service/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/using-stackit-ai-model-service/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/using-stackit-ai-model-service.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/using-stackit-ai-model-service.md)

### 7. AI Agents Fundamentals

Stage: `chart`

Agent systems, MCP and A2A protocols, and multi-agent systems.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/ai-agent-fundamentals/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/ai-agent-fundamentals/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/ai-agent-fundamentals.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/ai-agent-fundamentals.md)

### 8. MLOps Fundamentals on STACKIT

Stage: `shield`

CI/CD for ML models, experiment tracking, and deployment strategies.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/mlops-fundamentals-on-stackit/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/mlops-fundamentals-on-stackit/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/mlops-fundamentals-on-stackit.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/mlops-fundamentals-on-stackit.md)

### 9. Responsible AI and European Compliance

Stage: `crevasse`

EU AI Act, GDPR, and data governance for AI applications.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/responsible-ai-and-european-compliance/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/responsible-ai-and-european-compliance/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/responsible-ai-and-european-compliance.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/responsible-ai-and-european-compliance.md)

### 10. Capstone: Your Sovereign AI Assistant with OpenClaw

Stage: `summit`

Capstone project: end-to-end deployment of a sovereign AI assistant on STACKIT.

Asset: [/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/capstone-sovereign-ai-agent/](/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/capstone-sovereign-ai-agent/) — source: [/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/capstone-sovereign-ai-agent.md](/raw/data-and-ai/assetcontainer/stackit/capstone-sovereign-ai-agent.md)