IT Systems Engineer, M&A

About the role

Anthropic's Corporate Systems team runs the core collaboration platforms everyone here works in and builds the tooling and automation behind IT. That responsibility extends to the companies we acquire. Their people, devices, and systems have to come into Anthropic securely.

You'll own the IT side of Anthropic's acquisitions: due diligence, integration planning, and integration. Before close, you'll assess a company's IT environment and give the deal team a clear read on risk and effort. You'll define the technical integration plan and its requirements: what moves, where it lands, in what order, what has to be ready on day one, and how each security gap gets closed. After close, you'll carry out that plan and bring the company's people, devices, and systems onto our stack. This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll hold admin, write code, build automation, run the cutovers yourself and bring in other teams when the work calls for their expertise or support. You'll lead this work for IT Engineering and partner with Security, Corporate Development, Legal, People, and Finance at every stage.

M&A will be your primary focus and responsibility, but you'll be a full member of the Corporate Systems team; taking part in planning and reviews, using and contributing to the team’s tooling, and contributing to the roadmap. Early on, M&A will be most of your work, including using Claude to automate the repeatable parts of diligence and integration. As that automation matures, and when M&A load is light, you'll contribute to other parts of the team’s roadmap.

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.