Meta
Network Hardware Engineer
$144K–$204K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of hardware or electrical engineering experience focused on network equipment, data center infrastructure, or high-speed digital systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Designs and scales custom network hardware for Meta’s global data centers, from electrical design and prototype validation through manufacturing readiness.
What you'll do
- Design rack-scale network platforms and high-speed PCB layouts, including signal integrity and power delivery.
- Lead hardware architecture, bring-up, debug, qualification, and validation of network systems.
- Work with silicon, firmware, software, and manufacturing partners to integrate and produce network hardware.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience designing and validating high-speed networking PCBs, including SerDes signal integrity at 50G, 100G, or higher.
- Experience bringing up and debugging complex network systems using lab instrumentation.
- Experience integrating custom or merchant silicon into network platforms and working with ODMs or contract manufacturers through hardware development stages.
Nice to have
- Experience with OSFP or co-packaged optics integration and characterization.
- Experience with open networking hardware, custom silicon-based switching platforms, or systems using high-power ASICs (>500W).
Pay
$144,000/year to $204,000/year USD base salary; bonus and equity amounts not stated
Tools
switching ASICs, high-speed PCBs, SerDes, oscilloscopes, TDRs, network traffic generators, Linux, OSFP
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