IT Systems Engineer, M&A

Details

Anthropic's Corporate Systems team operates core collaboration platforms and the tooling and automation behind IT. This role owns the IT side of company acquisitions, including due diligence, integration planning, and post-close integration of people, devices, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical IT due diligence by assessing identity, applications, endpoints, and infrastructure and briefing deal teams on risk and effort.
• Identify gaps between acquired environments and Anthropic's security model, rate those gaps, and define mitigations.
• Define technical integration plans, including migration scope, destination systems, sequencing, day-one readiness, and security requirements.
• Execute integrations by administering systems, migrating people, devices, and data, and retiring systems that are no longer needed.
• Partner with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security teams.
• Communicate IT status to Corporate Development, Legal, People, Finance, and acquired-company teams.
• Build a repeatable IT M&A playbook and automate repeatable work using Claude.
• Contribute to core Corporate Systems projects when M&A work is light.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT, including designing and shipping systems, performing migrations or integrations, and owning at least one area end-to-end.
• Experience with identity, applications, endpoints, or corporate infrastructure.
• Experience administering enterprise identity and collaboration platforms such as Google Workspace, Slack, and an SSO provider.
• Ability to write Python or similar code against SaaS APIs.
• Working knowledge of endpoint management and security concepts.
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar IT environments and prioritize risks for non-specialists.
• Experience leading technical projects spanning multiple teams and operating to fixed deadlines.
• Ability to work autonomously with ambiguity and confidential information.
• Clear communication skills with executives, Legal, Corporate Development, engineers, and acquired-company teams.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• M&A, carve-out, or company-to-company migration experience.
• Experience across endpoints, systems, applications, and infrastructure.
• Hands-on device fleet or MDM management experience.
• Experience working in or alongside a security team.
• Experience building tooling to replace manual IT work.
• Experience using Claude or similar tools as a core part of the work.

Compensation and Logistics

• Annual salary: $325,000–$360,000 USD.
• Staff are currently expected to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office time.
• The role is travel-required.
• Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to support visa applications, with assistance from an immigration lawyer.
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.