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Responsibilities
- Designs, reviews, and optimizes ICT physical infrastructure, including structured cabling systems, floor/rack layouts, network hardware placement, and integrated communications systems for large-scale data center and network deployments
- Develops and enforces Meta ICT design standards, best practices, and compliance with relevant industry standards (e.g., TIA/EIA, ISO/IEC, BICSI)
- Develops optimized layouts of edge/backbone midpoint site floor plans, allocates space assigned to network functions, optical, backbone, IP, and compute
- Delivers on-time engineering design packages related to the site's infrastructure scope for sourcing and capacity planning teams
- Manages global space, power, cooling, structured cabling, and other inside plant infrastructure delivery requirements to support Meta's edge/backbone network deployments across owned and colocation facilities
- Engages in system-level facility sizing of utilities, switchgear, UPS/DC power plant, PDUs, mechanical cooling, and low-voltage power distribution
- Proactively engage with various data center colocation providers in evaluating their facilities and recommend corrective actions to meet Meta's standard design requirements
- Collaborates with internal and external design and planning engineers to execute projects related to cage and data center network/compute infrastructure build-outs
- Leads weekly syncs with external co-location vendors and provides technical support and progress reporting on cage and suite build-outs and acceptance testing
- Manages and tracks project timelines, risks, and successfully navigates projects to on-time completion
- Leads site acceptance activities with various colocation providers as per the facility acceptance standards
- Prioritize and coordinate concurrent projects based on impact and deadlines, driving execution through vendors at scale
- Collaborates closely with Meta business and technical teams to provide input on space/power delivery and associated deployment projects, as well as other major initiatives that may affect capacity delivery
- Updates Meta’s internal tooling and data record keeping in support of edge/backbone midpoint cage and suite build-outs
- Coordinates related Owner Furnished/Contractor Installed equipment delivery from Meta’s inventory to colocation facilities
- Proactively works and aligns with network planning and investment teams on the roadmap and material forecasting needs for on-time delivery of projects
- 20% to 30% of travel is required based on project demand
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. A degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
- 5+ years of work experience with designing and constructing large-scale data centers or similar mission-critical infrastructure, including specifying suite-level space, power, cooling, and structured cabling connectivity requirements for network and compute hardware
- Demonstrated experience in project management, including planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical projects
- Working knowledge of interpreting and analyzing electrical/mechanical single-line diagrams
- Working knowledge of various regional data center electrical and cooling configurations, IEC, NEMA standards, AC/DC power concepts, power redundancy scenarios
- General knowledge of fiber optic components, structured cabling, pathways, and interconnect products, technologies, and design concepts
- Demonstrated understanding of engineering principles related to infrastructure architecture, including space layout, air flow, cooling, etc
- General knowledge of data center, colocation, and isolated hut environments, including engineering principles related to power and infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience with field-based work in POPs, data centers, carrier-neutral facilities, or telecom exchanges
- Experience with communication and directing tasks with carriers and co-location vendors
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an ambiguous environment
- Collaborate with global teams to drive business results. Must possess proven planning, prioritization, and communication skills, with the experience to manage multiple tasks and adapt to changing business needs
- Proven skills to analyze technical situations, troubleshoot issues, and solve problems with limited supervision
- Working knowledge of internet networking technologies (routing and switching concepts), optical transport technologies (DWDM and optical transceivers), and network redundancy and failover concepts
- Working knowledge of Revit/AutoCAD/Bluebeam/BIM360/Procore etc
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
- Data center design or relevant structured cabling design certifications (e.g., BICSI RCDD)
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy review)
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
- Experience with ICT design and construction administration for hyperscale data centers and global backbone network capacity enablement process
- Familiarity with the Linux-based systems and experience with scripting and automation (Bash, Python, Perl)
- Experience with optical network design, installation, and maintenance for service providers or global enterprise networks
- A thorough knowledge of optical theory, transport technologies, and the operation of optical transport systems and IP backbone network technologies
- Proficient in Revit/AutoCAD/Bluebeam/BIM 360/Procore etc
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
- An advanced degree in an engineering discipline
- Registered Professional Engineering (P.E.) licensure in Electrical or Mechanical disciplines
$135,000/year to $191,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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