Meta
Data Scientist, Infrastructure Finance
$210K–$281K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience; quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Builds analytical models and decision frameworks to guide Meta’s infrastructure capacity planning, investment priorities, utilization, and operating decisions.
What you'll do
- Develop models and scenarios connecting demand, utilization, cost, performance, and capacity constraints to investment and planning decisions.
- Identify efficiency opportunities and work with planning, engineering, operations, and finance teams to embed recommendations into plans and reviews.
- Communicate analysis to executive stakeholders and establish standards for model validation, documentation, auditability, and reproducibility.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience; quantitative field or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years applying analysis, data science, statistics, economics, or operations research to business and investment decisions.
- Experience with operational planning or resource allocation; scenario and sensitivity models; SQL and Python or equivalent tools; and executive communication.
- Experience with ROI and capital-allocation trade-offs, forecasting and uncertainty analysis, plus responsible AI use and validation.
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure planning, capacity engineering, operations, cloud or compute economics, or other capital-intensive systems.
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure economics, data center constraints, and data center, semiconductor, cloud, server, networking, and software architecture.
Pay
$210,000/year to $281,000/year (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python, CPUs, GPUs
AI focus
Use AI tools to accelerate and improve analytical workflows, redesign workflows, and deliver measurable impact; apply responsible AI practices, including validation, reproducibility, risk assessment, bias mitigation, and sensitive-data handling.
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