Director, Power Optimization & Infrastructure Excellence

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

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Job summary

Meta is seeking a Director, Power Utilization and Infrastructure Efficiency to lead a multidisciplinary team across software engineering, operations research, research science, and technical program management. The role focuses on maximizing power utilization, reliability, and cost efficiency across Meta’s data center infrastructure.

The leader will build models and production systems for power consumption, utilization, and headroom, partnering with engineering, capacity planning, supply chain,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure systems, operations research, data science, capacity planning, data center infrastructure, power systems, or related technical field
• 8+ years of people management experience, including 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 problems
• Experience partnering across engineering, operations, finance, planning, and program management teams to deliver measurable outcomes
• Experience setting strategy, defining roadmaps, and driving execution across multiple teams or workstreams
• Strong 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 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 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

Job description

Meta is seeking a Director, Power Utilization and Infrastructure Efficiency to lead a multidisciplinary team across software engineering, operations research, research science, and technical program management. The role focuses on maximizing power utilization, reliability, and cost efficiency across Meta’s data center infrastructure.

The leader will build models and production systems for power consumption, utilization, and headroom, partnering with engineering, capacity planning, supply chain,