IT Systems Engineer, M&A
Anthropic · Boston, MA; Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY; Washington, DC
About this role
**IT Systems Engineer, M&A** **About Anthropic** Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems—safe and beneficial for users and society. **About the role** Anthropic’s Corporate Systems team runs the collaboration platforms everyone uses and builds the IT tooling and automation behind the scenes. This responsibility extends to companies Anthropic acquires: their people, devices, and systems must be brought into Anthropic securely. You’ll own the IT side of acquisitions, including: - **Due diligence** and **integration planning** before close - Assessing an acquired company’s IT environment and communicating **risk and effort** to the deal team - Defining the **technical integration plan** (what moves, where it lands, in what order, what must be ready on day one, and how security gaps are closed) - **Executing the integration** after close—hands-on administration, code, automation, and cutovers This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll lead work for IT Engineering and partner closely with **Security, Corporate Development, Legal, People, and Finance**. **Responsibilities** - Lead **technical IT due diligence** (identity, applications, endpoints, infrastructure) and brief the deal team on risk/effort - Identify gaps vs. Anthropic’s security model, **rate them**, and build mitigations into the integration plan - Define the **technical integration plan** and requirements (sequence, dependencies, day-one readiness) - Run the integration: take over administration, migrate people/devices/data, and retire what’s no longer needed - Coordinate with Business Technology, Client Platform, Corporate Network, IT Operations, and Security - Keep Corporate Development, Legal, People, Finance, and the acquired company’s team aligned on IT status - Build a repeatable **IT M&A playbook** and automate it (using Claude) - When M&A load is light, contribute to other Corporate Systems roadmap work **You may be a good fit if you have** - **8+ years** as a hands-on corporate IT engineer; designed/shipped systems; owned an area end-to-end (identity, applications, endpoints, or corporate infrastructure) - Experience administering enterprise identity/collaboration platforms (e.g., **Google Workspace**, **Slack**, **SSO providers**) and coding in **Python** (or similar) against SaaS APIs - Working knowledge of endpoint management and security concepts to lead diligence on unfamiliar fleets - Ability to quickly understand a new IT environment and deliver a prioritized risk view to non-specialists - Proven record leading technical projects across multiple teams with fixed dates—doing substantial engineering yourself - Comfort working autonomously with ambiguity and confidential information - Clear communication with executives, legal/corporate development, and engineers at acquired companies **Strong candidates may also have** - Prior **M&A**, carve-out, or company-to-company migration experience - Full-stack experience (endpoints, systems, applications, infrastructure) - Hands-on experience managing a device fleet or running an **MDM** - Experience working alongside a security team - Experience building tooling that replaces manual IT work - Using **Claude** (or similar) as a core part of how you work **Representative projects** - Assess an acquired company’s IT environment and produce a prioritized integration plan within days - Design a method to size integration effort and risk for companies of any shape/size - A
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