IT Systems Engineer, M&A

Overview

Lead IT due diligence, integration planning, and integration for Anthropic's acquisitions, bringing acquired companies' people, devices, and systems onto Anthropic's stack securely. This is a hands-on engineering role within the Corporate Systems team, with M&A as the primary focus.

What you'll do

• Lead technical IT due diligence: assess a company's identity, applications, endpoints, and infrastructure, and brief the deal team on risk and effort before close.
• Find the gaps between an acquired environment and Anthropic's security model, rate them, and build the mitigations into the integration plan.
• Define the technical integration plan and its requirements: what moves, where it lands, in what order, and what has to be ready on day one.
• Run the integration: take over administration, migrate people, devices, and data, and retire what's no longer needed, with support from other IT Engineering teams as required.
• Work with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security on their parts of each integration.
• Keep Corporate Development, Legal, People, Finance, and the acquired company's team clear on where IT stands.
• Build a repeatable IT M&A playbook and automate as much of it as possible with Claude.
• When M&A work is light, contribute to core Corporate Systems projects.

What you'll need

• 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT.
• Have designed and shipped systems, carried out migrations or integrations yourself, and owned at least one area end-to-end, with experience supporting other areas: identity, applications, endpoints, or corporate infrastructure.
• Experience administering enterprise identity and collaboration platforms such as Google Workspace, Slack, and an SSO provider, and working code in Python or similar against their SaaS APIs.
• Working knowledge of endpoint management and security concepts, enough to lead diligence on an unfamiliar fleet.
• A proven ability to understand an unfamiliar IT environment quickly and deliver a prioritized view of risk to non-specialists.
• A record of leading technical projects that span several teams and run to a fixed date, while doing much of the engineering yourself.
• Comfort working autonomously, with ambiguity and confidential information.
• Clear communication with executives, legal and corporate development teams, and engineers at acquired companies.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice to have

• Prior M&A, carve-out, or company-to-company migration experience.
• Experience across the full stack: endpoints, systems, applications, and infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience managing a device fleet or running an MDM.
• Experience working in or alongside a security team.
• A record of building tooling that replaces manual IT work.
• Using Claude or similar tools as a core part of how you work.

Details

• Locations: Boston, MA; Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required); San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY; Washington, DC.
• Hybrid: expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.
• Visa sponsorship available for some roles and candidates.
• Annual salary: $325,000 to $360,000 USD.