Senior Telecom Conveyance & Pathway Architect

Meta; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a Telecom Conveyance Engineer to lead the design and standardization of physical data-center pathway and conveyance infrastructure across its global portfolio. You will own technical strategy from outside plant to in-building systems, coordinating with electrical, mechanical, civil, and network teams to enable scalable, modular, and cost-efficient installations.

The role emphasizes prefabrication, standardization, and DFM principles to reduce on-site timelines and improve quality.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data center or mission-critical facility design with focus on cable pathway or physical distribution infrastructure.
• Experience designing and specifying cable tray systems (ladder, solid-bottom, wire mesh), conduit design, electrical busway, and overhead/under-floor distribution architectures.
• Experience with outside plant design including underground duct banks, conduit routing, manhole/handhole design, and inter-building connectivity pathways.
• Demonstrated expertise in structured cabling pathway standards (TIA-568, TIA-569, BICSI TDMM) and applicable building/electrical codes (NEC, NFPA, IBC).
• Experience collaborating with civil, structural, and network engineering disciplines to integrate conveyance systems into large-scale infrastructure programs.
• Ability to resolve complex, multi-trade coordination challenges and drive alignment across engineering and construction teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own technical strategy and design standards for outside plant connectivity pathways including underground conduit systems, manholes, handholes, vaults, and inter-building fiber routes.
• Lead the design and standardization of inside plant connectivity pathways including overhead cable tray systems, vertical risers, and pathway routing to network equipment.
• Architect integrated row conveyance solutions coordinating cable tray, electrical busway, and water distribution systems.
• Assist with designing and standardizing multi-trade rack configurations that consolidate power, network, and cooling distribution.
• Drive prefabrication strategy for pathway and conveyance assemblies with modular design packages and field installation standards.
• Develop design-for-manufacturing principles that enable prefab off-site with predictable quality.
• Lead cross-functional coordination with electrical, mechanical, civil, construction, and network teams.
• Establish pathway capacity planning frameworks accounting for future growth and evolving densities driven by AI/GPU infrastructure.
• Create design automation tools, templates, and parametric models for scalable pathway design.
• Drive continuous improvement of pathway designs based on feedback.

Skills

Outside plant design

Conveyance pathway design

Multi-trade coordination

Prefabrication strategy

Modular construction concepts

Design for manufactur­ing (DFM)

Electrical/mechanical coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Revit

AutoCAD

CAD/BIM tools

BIM coordination workflows

Job description

Meta seeks a Telecom Conveyance Engineer to lead the design and standardization of physical data-center pathway and conveyance infrastructure across its global portfolio. You will own technical strategy from outside plant to in-building systems, coordinating with electrical, mechanical, civil, and network teams to enable scalable, modular, and cost-efficient installations.

The role emphasizes prefabrication, standardization, and DFM principles to reduce on-site timelines and improve quality.