Deadline: July 17, 2026
Applications are open for the Claude Corps Fellowship 2026. Claude Corps — a partnership between CodePath and Anthropic — places early-career fellows inside nonprofits, government agencies, and public-interest organizations for a year to put AI to work on problems that matter. Fellows embed full-time at a host organization — building real solutions with Claude, teaching the people around them to do the same, and leaving behind something that keeps running after they’re gone.
Over a year, embedded at a single organization, you’ll do whatever moves the needle for your host — and that will look different month to month. They are looking for utility players: people who can build, teach, scope, and translate — and who don’t treat any of that work as beneath them. The hard part is doing excellent work inside an organization that has stakeholders who have difficult constraints and less experience working with Claude.
Responsibilities
- Discover and scope. Spend real time understanding what your host organization actually needs. Pull usage data, talk to the people doing the work, and define projects in sprints with clear outcomes.
- Build with Claude. Ship working solutions — agents, automations, internal tools, evaluation harnesses, integrations — that make a process faster, cheaper, or possible for the first time. Some of this will be ambitious; some will be a dashboard or a tracker that just needs to exist.
- Enable the organization. Run trainings for mixed technical and non-technical audiences. Turn three or four colleagues into the people others go to with AI questions. Your job isn’t done when the tool works — it’s done when someone else can own it.
- Hand off well. Sit with the person who’ll own your work after you leave. Watch them break it. Write the runbook. Make sure it survives you.
- Exercise judgment. Catch your own wrong answers. Tell a stakeholder “we shouldn’t build that” when it’s true. Cut the part of the demo that isn’t landing.
Benefits
- A full-time salary of $85,000 and benefits for the fellowship year, plus Claude API and tooling access
- Relocation support for Fellows placed more than 100 miles from their current residence
- A onboarding bootcamp with Anthropic before you start at your host
- Dedicated support, regular cohort sessions with other Fellows, and direct access to Anthropic engineers through office hours
- A portfolio entry that’s still running six months after you leave, and incredible references to go with it
Eligibility
You are eligible if you:
- Are 18 or older with less than two years of professional work experience — they care about what you’ve done and how you think, not your degree.
- Have built something end-to-end on your own — a project, tool, or automation you scoped, shipped, and can talk about honestly, including what you’d do differently.
- Have a genuine, demonstrated pull toward social-impact work — you’ve spent real time in or around nonprofits, public service, education, health, or community organizations, and can articulate why.
- Take initiative without a PM tracking you, and stay coachable while doing it.
- Can explain something technical to a non-technical room and read whether it’s landing.
- Are energized — not deflated — by ambiguity, resource constraints, and problems that turn out to be different than advertised.
- Are authorized to work in the United States (they are not able to sponsor visas for this program) and open to relocation within the US to work in person at a host organization.
Strong candidates may also have:
- Experience shipping inside a small team or organization where you wore multiple hats
- A track record of teaching, mentoring, or running workshops for non-technical audiences
- Domain exposure in one of our host sectors (public health, education, workforce, civic tech, social services)
- Experience with agent frameworks, evals, or production LLM deployments
Application
The first cohort begins October 19, 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with a deadline of July 17, 2026 for consideration in the first cohort.
For more information, visit Claude Corps Fellowship.
