IT Systems Engineer, Client Platform Engineer, macOS

About the Position

We are looking for an IT Systems Engineer, Client Platform Engineer, macOS to join our team at Anthropic. This role is pivotal in managing our device fleet and ensuring the security and efficiency of our IT infrastructure.

About the Role

The Endpoint team (Client Platform Engineering) at Anthropic treats our device fleet as a platform we build and run. We manage every piece of device configuration as code, ensuring policies, configuration profiles, queries, remediation scripts, and software are all version controlled and peer reviewed. The fleet is primarily macOS, with a small number of Linux machines and a growing mobile footprint.

You'll own the platform end to end: the infrastructure underneath the MDM, the configuration on top of it, the patching and software pipelines that keep thousands of devices patched and secure, and the telemetry that tells us what is actually true on every device. You'll also build automation that cuts down on manual operational work.

Responsibilities

• Own endpoint configuration as code: author, review, test, and progressively roll out MDM policies, configuration profiles, and remediation scripts across macOS and mobile, with canary stages and rollback built in
• Operate the MDM platform itself as a production service, including infrastructure as code, observability, upgrades, and incident response
• Build patch management automation with rapid enforcement timelines while maintaining good user experience
• Design zero touch provisioning that turns a sealed box into a productive machine on day one
• Support a small number of Linux machines alongside the Mac fleet
• Turn fleet telemetry into policy, dashboards, and early drift warnings, and use Claude to automate manual ops work
• Partner with Corporate Security on endpoint hardening, binary authorization, and compliance controls
• Take shifts on the team's rotation for incoming requests and escalations, and serve as the deep escalation tier for endpoint issues IT Operations can't resolve

Requirements

• Have 8+ years building secure IT systems in complex environments, including leading projects across multiple teams
• Have managed endpoint fleets of thousands of macOS devices through a modern MDM
• Treat endpoint configuration as code that is version controlled and peer reviewed, rather than clicking in consoles
• Go deep on macOS internals such as launchd, configuration profiles, TCC, and system extensions
• Write Python and shell scripts
• Write design docs and runbooks so teammates can review and support what you build

Nice to Have

• Have operated an MDM or device management platform as a service, not only consumed one as SaaS
• Have worked with open source endpoint and device management tooling (Munki, osquery, AutoPkg)
• Have built automated, progressive rollout systems with promotion gated on telemetry
• Have experience running infrastructure as code in a public cloud
• Have working knowledge of Linux administration (packaging, systems, config management)
• Have used LLMs to automate ops work

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $285,000 - $325,000 USD
• Hybrid work location policy
• Visa sponsorship available

About the Company

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.

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How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact - advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI - rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Come Work with Us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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