Director of Power Utilization & Data Center Efficiency

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 347,000 - 403,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a Director to lead Power Utilization and Infrastructure Efficiency across its data center fleet, building and scaling teams of software engineers, researchers, and program managers to improve power planning, utilization, and reliability.

You will own models and systems for forecasting power consumption, utilization, and headroom, driving data-driven decisions and partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize cost, cycle time, and capacity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure systems, operations research, data science, capacity planning, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of people management experience, including experience managing managers or multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Experience leading technical organizations that build production systems, data platforms, forecasting models, optimization systems, or infrastructure planning tools.
• Experience applying modeling, optimization, simulation, forecasting, or statistical methods to large-scale operational or infrastructure problems.
• Experience partnering across engineering, operations, finance, planning, and program management teams to deliver measurable business and infrastructure outcomes.
• Experience setting strategy, defining roadmaps, and driving execution across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Communication experience influencing senior technical and business stakeholders on complex infrastructure tradeoffs

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term strategy, roadmap, and operating model for data-driven power planning and utilization across Meta’s data center infrastructure.
• Build data models that represent power consumption, constraints, utilization, and reliability across data centers, capacity planning systems, and fulfillment workflows.
• Develop mathematical, statistical, and simulation-based models to predict power utilization, demand, risk, reliability, and available headroom across the fleet.
• Build production systems that use model outputs to inform fulfillment decisions and improve power allocation, infrastructure readiness, and capacity utilization.
• Partner with data center engineering, capacity planning, supply chain, finance, hardware, network, and infrastructure operations teams to translate power insights into execution plans.
• Lead efficiency programs that improve end-to-end infrastructure metrics, including cycle time, utilization, cost, reliability, and operational throughput.
• Establish metrics, review mechanisms, and decision systems that help Meta make tradeoffs across power availability, reliability, capacity delivery, and business demand.
• Develop technical and organizational leaders, including managers and senior individual contributors, and build a durable leadership bench for a growing area of infrastructure investment.

Skills

Software engineering

Infrastructure systems

Operations research

Data science

Capacity planning

Data center infrastructure

Power systems

Education

Advanced degree in CS OR IE EE Stats or Applied Math

Job description

Meta seeks a Director to lead Power Utilization and Infrastructure Efficiency across its data center fleet, building and scaling teams of software engineers, researchers, and program managers to improve power planning, utilization, and reliability.

You will own models and systems for forecasting power consumption, utilization, and headroom, driving data-driven decisions and partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize cost, cycle time, and capacity.