Visiting Researcher, Release to Production

Meta • Menlo Park, CA

4d • $173,000 - $245,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking an experienced Visiting Researcher to join its Release to Production (RTP) team. Meta's servers and data centers support its rapidly scaling infrastructure. RTP is responsible for the hardware lifecycle of Meta servers, including pre-production hands-on system and hardware debugging and stress testing, production-ready system monitoring, automated provisioning, and automated issue remediation. RTP engineers collaborate with hardware designers, system manufacturers, component vendors, capacity engineering, production engineering, Meta services, and data center operations teams to test systems before they are released to production data centers and to track the health and lifecycle of servers in production.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in hardware server system support, troubleshooting server architecture and components, and analyzing, triaging, and solving systems-level issues.
• Expertise with Linux and scripting, such as Python.
• 5+ years of experience changing system configurations and measuring the impact of changes, working through the full lifecycle progression of computer systems products.
• 3+ years of experience engineering innovations in support of different server system and data center products.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in data processing, visualization, modeling, and machine learning.
• Experience developing AI use cases.
• A proven record of driving state-of-the-art research in hardware system reliability, validation, fault tolerance, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagement with external vendors and internal hardware, mechanical, power, thermal, manufacturing, and software engineers to understand system architecture and develop and execute test suites for various architectures.
• Contribute as a Tech Lead by owning and proactively creating experiments and tooling to detect and diagnose hardware, firmware, and software health issues in organized, collaborative efforts.
• Develop test frameworks for large-scale test automation in the fleet during product development and after mass production.
• Implement remediation across the software and hardware stack according to plan while maintaining thorough procedural records and data logs.
• Develop and publish updates on resolutions and communicate findings internally.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and determine root causes of system failures, isolating components and failure scenarios while working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop visibility through data visualization and implement systematic solutions to hardware health issues.
• Drive discussions with external and internal teams on test specifications and methodologies to continuously improve test quality.
• Develop robust, scalable practices for supporting hardware infrastructure at scale.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior