6 Job-Realistic AI Engineering Projects: Reranking to Exfiltration Guardrails

Bashiri Smith · Facebook reel · 2026-09-11 · 0:36 · 5,195 views · Open on Facebook

Topics: Portfolio Projects, Evaluation (Evals) & Testing, AI Safety, Security & Guardrails · Level: intermediate

Summary

This short video links six AI engineering skills to six portfolio projects. The creator presents each one as a real task from the job, not a tutorial. The projects cover RAG reranking, human-in-the-loop agents, LLM request batching, LLM-as-a-judge evals, QLoRA fine-tuning and data exfiltration guardrails. The video ends by promoting the creator's guide of 27 projects (a Google Drive folder) and his Skool community.

Key points

• Document reranking in RAG -> build a RAG pipeline with a reranking step that re-scores retrieved results before generation.
• Human approval in agents -> build a human approval agent with human-in-the-loop control over its actions.
• LLM request batching -> build an LLM request batching layer (inference optimization for throughput and cost).
• LLM-as-a-judge evals -> build an LLM-as-a-judge eval harness to score model outputs automatically.
• QLoRA fine-tuning -> build a QLoRA fine-tuning pipeline (efficient fine-tuning of a quantized model with low-rank adapters).
• Data exfiltration guardrails -> build guardrails that stop sensitive data from leaking (data loss prevention).
• The creator presents these as actual on-the-job tasks, not tutorial exercises. His full guide covers 27 projects.

Resources mentioned

• Bashiri Smith's AI Projects Guide · pdf · drive.google.com · free
  The creator's guide to 27 AI projects, with full architecture, build steps phase by phase, interview talking points, and the stack for each project.
  Also in: 6-Step Framework for Building AI Projects Target Companies Care About (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Generate Job-Worthy AI Project Ideas from Recent Research Papers + ChatGPT (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 3 AI Portfolio Projects That Get Past the 6-Second Resume Scan (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 15 Production-Grade AI Projects to Go from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 3 more
• BASWE.Ai Engineer (Skool community) · community · skool.com · paid
  The creator's paid community and program, with an AI learning roadmap (including the full ops and evaluation track), daily calls with engineers and recruiters, resume and portfolio help, and a job-search pipeline.
  Also in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Pointer to Bashiri Smith's Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How to Evaluate a RAG Pipeline: Retrieval vs. Generation (Interview Answer) (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 76 more

Try this

• Pick one of the six skills and build its matching project.
• Review the 27-project guide in the AI Projects Google Drive folder.
• Optionally, join the BASWE.Ai Engineer Skool community for a roadmap and coaching.
• Comment "one" on the video to have the links sent to you.
• RAG pipeline with reranking (retrieval reranking)
• Human approval agent (human-in-the-loop control)
• LLM request batching layer (inference optimization)
• LLM-as-a-judge eval harness (automated evaluation)
• QLoRA fine-tuning pipeline (efficient fine-tuning)
• Data exfiltration guardrails (data loss prevention)