IT Systems Engineer, M&A
Boston · Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Washington, DC · New York City, NY · Friendly US (Travel Required) · San Francisco · Seattle, WA · Washington, D.C. · USD 325,000-360,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Location
- Boston · Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Washington, DC · New York City, NY · Friendly US (Travel Required) · San Francisco · Seattle, WA · Washington, D.C.
- Salary
- USD 325,000-360,000 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
About Anthropic
- Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
- Anthropic is seeking an IT Systems Engineer, M&A to own the IT side of company acquisitions, covering due diligence, integration planning, and execution.
- This is a hands-on engineering role where you will hold admin rights, write code, build automation, run cutovers, and integrate acquired people, devices, and systems securely.
- In addition to leading M&A IT workflows and building a repeatable playbook using Claude, you will serve as a full member of the Corporate Systems team contributing to core projects.
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
Requirements
- 8+ years as a hands-on engineer in corporate IT
- Experience designing and shipping systems, carrying out migrations or integrations yourself, and owning at least one area end-to-end
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- 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
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more time in office.
- Travel-required positions based on listed locations.
Skills
- Python
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- SSO
- APIs
- Claude
- MDM
