Codecademy Machine Learning/AI Engineer career path (Pro)

status: enrolling · checked 2026-10-08

On 2026-10-08 the Machine Learning/AI Engineer career path (50 hours, 42,832 learners) and AI Engineer career path (30 hours) were live and purchasable through a Pro subscription; self-paced, no cohorts. source

Codecademy's Machine Learning/AI Engineer path is a 50-hour self-paced course bundle sold through a Pro subscription at about $240 a year or $40 a month, with AI-driven interview and job-readiness tools instead of human career services. It suits beginners who want cheap, browser-based practice in Python and scikit-learn before committing to anything expensive. Before paying, note that Skillsoft laid off the whole Codecademy curriculum team in February 2026 and that billing complaints dominate its Trustpilot page, so use monthly billing and cancel deliberately.

The facts

Category	AI and machine learning
Website	codecademy.com/learn/paths/machine-learning-engineer
Based	New York, NY · founded 2011
Format	online-self-paced
Programs	Machine Learning/AI Engineer career path (50 hours, 7 units, 37 projects), AI Engineer career path (30 hours, 16 units: PyTorch, Hugging Face, LoRA/QLoRA, OpenAI API, RAG, agents), Data Scientist: Machine Learning Specialist career path (95 hours), Data and Programming Foundations for AI skill path (39 hours)
Length	Self-paced; Codecademy states 50 hours average completion for the ML/AI Engineer path and 30 hours for AI Engineer, with no week count. unknown
Tuition	$240 to $480 Pricing page: Pro is '$19.99 a month, billed annually' (about $240/yr) or '$39.99 billed monthly' (about $480 over 12 months); Plus is $14.99/mo annual or $29.99 monthly but career paths require Pro. Basic is free. verified
Financing	upfront Monthly or annual subscription; no ISA, loans, or job guarantee. Annual plans include 'One complimentary live workshop per new annual subscription'. Trustpilot 1-star reviews repeatedly cite recurring charges after cancellation and denied refunds; check the cancellation flow before subscribing.
Admission	open No application; path marked intermediate with 'Prerequisites: None'.
Stack	Python, pandas, scikit-learn, Git, Bash, ML pipelines, PyTorch, Hugging Face, OpenAI API, Streamlit, RAG, AI agents

Outcomes

no outcomes published

This program does not publish job-placement or salary outcomes. Treat any number you hear from admissions as unverifiable.

Interview-prep depth

our read of the published curriculum

1 / 5

data structures and algorithms1/3

system design0/3

mock interviews1/3

behavioral1/3

Pricing page lists technical interview prep and code challenges as Pro features; the ML path itself has no DS&A or system design units, and interview practice is an AI simulator.

Job support: light. Pro includes an AI 'Interview simulator', an AI 'Job-readiness checker', job listings, technical interview prep and code challenges per the pricing page; no human coaching, no mock interviews with people, no placement service.

Whatever the program covers, the interview itself is free to prepare for here: coding patterns, system design, practice prompts, company guides.

What a careful reader should know

on the record

Owner: Skillsoft agreed to buy Codecademy for about $525M in cash and stock in Dec 2021 and closed on April 5, 2022 (Wikipedia; Bloomberg Law reported a legal challenge to the deal in Dec 2023, headline only). On Feb 20, 2026 EdTech Innovation Hub reported that Skillsoft laid off the entire Codecademy curriculum team, confirmed on LinkedIn by Senior Curriculum Director Zoe Bachman; Skillsoft gave no public rationale. That matters for a self-paced product whose value is the curriculum. Course Report's only Codecademy listing is a legacy 'Codecademy Pro' page with 2 reviews at 1.0/5, so treat it as non-representative. Trustpilot: 2.4/5 from 1,477 reviews; complaints center on billing after cancellation and content errors, praise on beginner-friendliness. The path page shows an unsourced '$127,000' average US salary figure; it is not an outcomes claim about graduates.

Third-party signals: Course Report 1 (2 reviews). Graduation-time star ratings are collected by the schools; weigh them accordingly.

Sources (9)

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