Anthropic is making a $100 million bet on deployed AI engineers, and it seeks 5 key attributes

Anthropic's developer conference in May.

Don Feria/AP Content Services for Anthropic Anthropic is putting $100 million into a new training program for other companies' workers.

The push is an effort to create more "deployed engineers," who can ramp up AI usage at companies.

Executives explained the program and described the ideal forward-deployed engineer.

Forward-deployed engineers are all the rage in AI, and Anthropic is going to other companies to train up top talent.

The AI company announced a $100 million investment into an FDE training initiative earlier this month.

It's a quasi-fellowship that engineers from other firms have already begun applying for.

They'll attend four-day on-site intensives and then complete 12-week "residencies" working with Anthropic's Claude tools at their own companies.

The company says it hopes to train 10,000 people through the program by the end of 2027.

As Anthropic approaches its gigantic initial public offering , it's using the new training model to get more of the corporate world used to AI — and ramp up Claude spending.

Job postings for FDEs have boomed over the last couple of years, as more companies buy software from AI firms and need help deploying it.

Two Anthropic executives leading the push told Business Insider that their customers see AI's advances, notice competitors grabbing market share, and feel pressure to change their own work.

"Everybody understands the model capability is expanding extremely fast," said Shambhavi Shambhavi, Anthropic's head of go-to-market strategy and operations for partnerships.

"So, what can be done with the technology is greatly appreciated by the customers." Enter the FDE — which Anthropic calls "Frontier Deployed Engineers," rather than the standard " forward-deployed engineer " title that Palantir helped popularize .