Production Systems Engineer, NPI Compute

Meta is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Systems/Hardware engineer to join our Release to Production (RTP) team. The RTP team is responsible for the end-to-end hardware lifecycle of all Meta servers, including prototyping, pre-production hands-on system validation, hardware debugging, and stress testing. As a Systems/Production Systems Engineer, you will work closely with various teams, including HW/SW co-design teams, hardware designers, networking teams, system manufacturers, component vendors, capacity engineering, production engineering, production services, and data center operations teams to enable new systems that will be deployed in our production data centers.

Production Systems Engineer, NPI Compute Responsibilities:

• Drive and lead end-to-end system validation, and deployment for cutting-edge Compute and Storage hardware platforms, including CPUs, Flash, Hard Disk Drives and Data Center Processing Units (DPUs) in data center environments
• Proactively create experiments and tooling to diagnose and root cause hardware, firmware, and software failures across compute, storage, and networking systems using telemetry, logs, and hands-on debugging
• Design and implement robust system-level test plans, including functional, stress, and performance tests. Test plans may also include emerging security domains such as Confidential Computing
• Drive component vendors and system manufacturers to resolve hardware and firmware issues identified during production operations
• Interface with external vendors and internal teams to understand the system architecture and develop hardware fault management for various server products
• Drive new platform enablement, hardware validation, tooling specifications, and integration, customer workload testing, and experiment creation to detect and diagnose hardware/firmware/software health issues
• Leverage understanding of RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) to improve error reporting and error handling mechanisms for better operation quality and cost/effectiveness
• Analyze production failure data to identify systemic trends and drive corrective actions with internal teams and external vendors
• Create and maintain dashboards and data visualizations to surface hardware health signals and track remediation progress across the fleet
• Drive necessary discussions with external and internal teams on test specifications and methodologies to improve test quality continuously, both within Meta, and in the broader industry

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of work experience in one or more domains such as: ASIC development, compute (ARM, x86), AI-ML hardware/software, storage (HDD, TLC/QLC SSD, HBA), memory (HBM, DDR5, LPDDR5), network (NIC, DPU), server interconnect technologies, or similar
• Knowledge of architecture and components on one of the following products: server/PC/Laptop
• Development or debug experience in one or more areas: hardware fault management, error reporting, error handling on hardware products
• Experience with Python, C/C++ and/or similar languages, within a Linux environment, for server system management, automation, version control, CI/CD, or similar
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues
• Experience communicating technical findings and recommendations to cross-functional teams, including hardware designers, vendors, and operations stakeholders
• Experience working in a matrix organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience with a subset of one of the following domains: Compute Systems, Storage Systems, Accelerated Compute Systems/HPC, Kernel/Firmware Development and/or testing, Post Silicon Bringup
• Experience with x86 or ARM-based CPUs and their subsystems (e.g., memory, inter-chiplet communications, RAS/DFT, power management, security)
• Working/functional knowledge of common bus protocols such as I2C, SPI, USB, LPDDR, and/or PCIe
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting problems at the system level, crossing across multiple components, as well as hardware, firmware, and software boundaries
• Familiarity with debugging tools for systems-on-chip (SoCs) - e.g., JTAG, GDB, DSTREAM, Trace32
• Understanding of the hardware development process and how it pertains to the test strategy. Experience authoring test plans for complex chipsets for functional, stress, and performance testing
• 2+ years of experience scripting automation in Python or equivalent
• Experienced in the integration of lab tools for automated workflows with large-scale deployments
• Hands-on experience in managing/debugging Linux servers
• Proficiency in continuous integration/continuous delivery tools

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

$144,000/year to $204,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.