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Planning & Capacity Engineer Lead, Server Rack Components Supply Chain

Meta· Data Center Operations
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Menlo Park, CA$219k - $301kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Planning & Capacity Engineer Lead focusing on planning optimization for Meta’s server and network rack supply chain. Responsible for building and optimizing supply chain plans across components and finished goods, leveraging software and mathematical optimization, to balance capacity, flexibility, cost, and risk at strategic levels with company-wide impact.

Responsibilities

  • Own infrastructure supply chain planning for Meta across all components of server and network racks
  • Design improvements to software systems to improve supply chain planning efficiency and quality, partner with software engineers to implement and contribute code yourself
  • Develop and analyze business and technical data and scenarios to drive executive decisions around infrastructure supply and spend
  • Contribute to end to end supply chain planning processes, methodologies, and data to deliver an executable and optimized supply plan
  • Manage and resolve critical escalations and exceptions in all areas of the supply chain
  • Develop models that drive supply flexibility and optionality to balance capacity, cost, and risk
  • Build mathematical models to perform simulations and optimization studies of demand projections, scenario planning, and gap closure analysis
  • Work cross-functionally to define problem statements, collect data, build analytical models, and make recommendations to drive change
  • Partner across Infra - platform teams, server hardware engineering, network engineering, data center engineering, operations, capacity planning, networking planning, data center planning, energy to optimize infrastructure
  • Partner with Finance to balance cost efficiency with technical, product, and supply chain considerations
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to a team of commodity planners

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field
  • 12+ years of experience in designing and implementing models, optimization algorithms, operations research, industrial engineering, or related field
  • 8+ years of experience in coding/scripting languages such as Python, R, Java, C, C++, PHP
  • 8+ years of experience in supply chain management including planning, manufacturing, operations, and inventory
  • Experience mentoring and upskilling commodity planners or similar planning teams
  • Experience working with distributed systems at scale
  • Experience in infrastructure operations and technical infrastructure knowledge
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams
  • Experience defining project scope, priorities, and next steps when requirements or constraints are not fully defined

Skills

Required:Optimization modelingProgrammingData analysis and scenario planning

Benefits

  • benefits information referenced in posting (not enumerated here)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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