11/7/2026·9 min read
What Is the Claude Frontier Academy? How Nomination, the Resident Engineer and Frontier Deployed Engineer Badges Work (2026)
Anthropic's Claude Frontier Academy explained: the $100 million program to train 10,000 engineers by the end of 2027, who gets nominated, the in-person program and graded practical, the Claude Resident Engineer and Claude Frontier Deployed Engineer badges, and how to put yourself in line for a nomination.
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