IT Systems Engineer, M&A

Responsibilities

• 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

You may be a good fit if you have

• 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT. You 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

Strong candidates may also 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

Representative projects

• Assess an acquired company's IT environment that nobody here has seen and produce a prioritized integration plan within days
• Design a way to size integration effort and risk for a company of any shape or size
• Automate bringing acquired people and devices onto Anthropic's identity and device management
• Write the IT risk memo for a live deal and present it to Corporate Development and Security leadership

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$325,000 - $360,000 USD

Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.