Get the experience
before the job.
The classic trap: no job without experience, no experience without a job. Brave breaks it — you do real projects inside a real company, coached by AI and reviewed by senior engineers, and graduate with verifiable proof you've already done the work.
The proven path to landing a role.
Start building now.
The Brave Residency is the foundation: eight to twelve weeks of building real work under expert review. MOSS and hackathons amplify it. Outreach when you're ready, and a stage to ship in public.
Learn with AI. Ship for real.
Eight to twelve weeks. The AI coaches you daily, industry experts review what you ship.
- Your portfolio and resume build themselves from real projects.
- Every deliverable is reviewed and signed by a senior expert.
- Walk away with a verifiable credential and your first paid project.
MOSS pitches you, day and night.
An AI agent that cold-emails hiring managers when your skills match their open roles. Evidence attached. You approve every intro.
See how MOSS worksLive eventsHackathonsShow up. Get hired.
Real challenges, judged work, employers watching. Free to attend, sponsored by Claude, ElevenLabs, and LangChain. Hired straight from the event.
Pick your residency.
Three focused tracks. Each one walks you from a blank screen to a shipped, expert-reviewed project — the foundation of your credential.
AI Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer
Data & AI Engineering
Your resume builds itself.
Not a PDF certificate. A live credential assembled automatically from the work you ship, signed by the experts who reviewed it, and queryable by any AI tool a hiring team uses.
Alex Chen
MOSS pitches you, proactively.
You don't cold-apply and hope. While you build, MOSS scans for hiring managers whose open roles match your work, and reaches out on your behalf with evidence attached. Your profile keeps working even when you're heads-down learning.
A founding AI engineer match, with evidence
Hi Sarah, you're hiring a founding AI engineer who can own evaluation and quality end-to-end. Alex Chen just finished our AI Engineer track and matches on every signal:
- AI quality scoreTop 5%
- Projects shipped & expert-reviewed14
- Daily standup consistency, 90+ days98%
Full evidence on his live profile. Want an intro this week?
Ship in public. Hackathons included.
When you've learned and feel ready, hackathons are how you show it: real challenges, judged work, employers watching. Free to attend, open to builders worldwide, with real prizes. Sponsored by partners like Claude, ElevenLabs, LangChain, and Replicate, at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, downtown Toronto, and remote.
SPONSOREDFuture City Hackathon
ElevenLabsFCI
SPONSOREDAI Hackathon with LangChain
LangChainFCI
AI-JUDGED10x AI Engineer Hackathon
Claude
Cursor
SPONSOREDBuild with Replicate Hackathon
Replicate
Claude & Vibe Coding Workshop
Claude
Start Your Own Startup
Healthcare AI Hackathon
ACCElerate AI Hackathon
6.8 10X Engineer Hackathon
Pay as you go.
Or pay after you're hired.
One transparent monthly price for everything Brave offers: a fraction of a bootcamp, because the AI does the teaching and experts focus on reviewing your work. Can't pay now? Pay After lets you start today and pay once you land the job.
- Full Brave access: AI coaching curated by industry experts
- 1-hour session every month with a senior+ domain expert
- Expert review on every project you ship
- Portfolio, resume, and verifiable credential, built automatically
- MOSS outreach: AI cold-emails hiring managers on your behalf
- Hackathons, community, and mentor network
- First paid project opportunities at Brave
Bravers on what changed for them after.
Pick a track. Build with AI.
Walk away with proof.
Start whenever you're ready. Move at your own pace. Your resume builds itself while you learn.