Data Scientist, Finance (Infrastructure & AI)

Meta • Menlo Park, CA • 2h ago

Summary:

Meta is seeking a data science leader to shape data-driven financial strategy across infrastructure and AI. You'll translate advanced modeling into decisions that guide company-wide investment, resource allocation, pricing, and long-term planning, helping leaders act under significant uncertainty. You'll work closely with cross-functional partners across finance, infrastructure, and product teams, including Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with business acumen - someone who can navigate ambiguous, early-stage problem spaces, identify where Meta can deploy resources more efficiently or improve pricing and monetization, and translate those insights into quantified opportunities and clear recommendations.

Required Skills:

Data Scientist, Finance (Infrastructure & AI) Responsibilities:

Develop and own analytical models and frameworks that inform multi-year infrastructure planning, investment prioritization, and the financial strategy of Meta's AI businesses

Build frameworks to evaluate ROI on compute, infrastructure, data, and related spend across products, features, and business segments, and use those insights to inform investment and resource-allocation decisions

Develop a rigorous understanding of the unit economics of Meta's AI products and business models - contribution margin, cost-to-serve, marginal cost, lifetime value, and the trade-offs that drive them - to inform strategy, pricing, and monetization

Independently identify efficiency, financial, and monetization opportunities - surfacing where Meta can get more from its investments - and rapidly build the analysis to size and pressure-test them, operating with minimal guidance in ambiguous problem spaces

Partner with finance, infrastructure, and product teams (including MSL) to define success metrics, size financial opportunities, align on technical methodology, and evaluate trade-offs across competing strategic priorities

Synthesize data into clear, business-relevant recommendations and communicate their implications to VPs and executive stakeholders

Design rigorous research and hypothesis-testing approaches, and oversee the quality of analytical outputs across finance, infrastructure, and AI-business domains

Identify and drive adoption of AI-integrated analytics workflows, including orchestrating AI tools to accelerate modeling and analysis

Lead ad hoc analyses of emerging topics critical to Meta's business and financial strategy

Minimum Qualifications:

12+ years of experience applying statistical and quantitative analysis techniques to drive key business and financial decisions

Experience shaping and influencing strategy, investment, or monetization decisions - for example in infrastructure, product economics, pricing, or the economics of AI / technology businesses

Strong applied statistics and quantitative modeling: experimentation, causal inference / econometrics, uncertainty quantification, forecasting, and scenario modeling

Demonstrated business and economics intuition - a strong grasp of contribution margin, cost-to-serve, ROI, and trade-offs - and a track record of independently identifying financial or efficiency opportunities and driving them to measurable outcomes in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Experience communicating data-driven recommendations to executive stakeholders through written and verbal presentations, with a track record of influencing cross-functional decisions without direct authority

Experience coding in SQL and Python (or equivalent) to independently work through large, messy datasets and to build, maintain, and optimize analytical models at production scale

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with AI/compute cost economics - understanding inference and training cost drivers well enough to translate technical changes into $/token and margin

Experience with pricing and demand modeling (elasticity, willingness to pay, packaging, subscription/API pricing) and translating analysis into pricing and monetization recommendations

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/@context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

Experience in data science and/or driving strategy at a hyperscaler, frontier AI lab, or large technology company

Public Compensation:

$210,000/year to $281,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereo@types, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

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 accommodations-ext@meta.com.

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