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# IT Systems Engineer, M&A

- **Company:** Anthropic Limited
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $325,000.0 - $360,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Software as a Service, Collaborative Software, Information Technology Operations, Python (Programming Language), Information Technology, Gsuite, Claude
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=97c9945356626fff

## About the Role

* 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, 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.

## Description

* 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, * 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