# Research Scientist, Demand Forecasting

Meta runs one of the largest server fleets on earth, and every product bet (AI training, ranking, inference, storage) turns into a demand for compute that we must forecast, shape, and match to a physical supply of servers, racks, power, and data center space. As a technical owner within Server Demand Planning, you drive server demand forecasting and demand-supply matching for your area and close on feasible supply requirements: you forecast near- and long-term server capacity demand by rack/hardware type and region, and you build the operations research models that match that demand to supply so we land the right long-term DC & hardware infra requirements, in the right place, at the right time. You choose the right modeling approach for the problems you own, deciding when to ship a production-grade optimization system versus a fast lightweight model to unblock a decision, and you partner closely across product/service capacity owners, capacity engineering, supply chain, data center planning, and finance.Responsibilities Own and drive a multi-horizon server/MW demand forecast (near term through 2-5+ years), producing trusted, reproducible release to inform decisions Aggregate and no

- **Id**: 4089452
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-research-scientist-demand-forecasting-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T22:54:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T19:49:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Foundation Models, Messaging Apps

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- **Name**: Meta
- **Domain**: meta.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 228
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.89
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- **Time to fill p50 days**: 39
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

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- **Python** — Optional: no
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## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T19:49:07Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

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- **Label**: Hiring now
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- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T21:07:48Z

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