Research Scientist, Infrastructure Modeling and Reliability

About the job

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. Meta's infrastructure supports services used by billions of people, and operating that infrastructure efficiently requires increasingly sophisticated modeling of demand, utilization, reliability, and physical resource constraints. We are seeking an experienced Research Scientist or Applied Scientist to define and build new modeling approaches for power utilization across Meta's infrastructure. This role will lead the development of statistical and machine learning models that monitor power consumption, project peak demand, quantify uncertainty, and inform how Meta maximizes usable power within failure domains while maintaining target reliability levels. Qualified candidates will have has deep experience modeling high-dimensional, noisy, and interdependent systems, and has demonstrated the ability to translate scientific advances into production systems that influence large-scale infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities

Define the scientific and technical strategy for modeling power consumption, peak risk, and reliability tradeoffs across large-scale infrastructure systems Develop statistical, machine learning, and/or optimization models that forecast power demand, estimate peak distributions, quantify uncertainty, and support operational decision-making Build approaches that reason about high-dimensional signals, correlated demand, failure-domain constraints, reserve margins, and reliability targets Partner with engineering, capacity planning, data center, energy, hardware, operations, and finance teams to translate model outputs into infrastructure planning and utilization decisions Establish evaluation frameworks, backtesting methods, confidence intervals, and monitoring systems to measure model quality and operational risk Identify opportunities to safely increase power utilization, reduce stranded capacity, improve cost efficiency, and guide long-term infrastructure investment Lead ambiguous, company-critical technical initiatives across organizations, influencing strategy and aligning stakeholders around scientifically grounded decisions Mentor other scientists and engineers, raise the technical bar for modeling and forecasting systems, and represent Meta's work through appropriate external publications, talks, or industry engagement