As the principal technical leader for Server Demand Planning across Infrastructure, you own the demand side of the plan and the feasible supply requirements it drives: you forecast long- and near-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 servers, in the right place, at the right time.
Responsibilities
Own the multi-horizon server/MW demand forecast long range (2-5+ years), by resource type and region, and the DC supply requirements it drives
Aggregate and normalize demand signals from short term demand and product groups, into a single trusted statistical long term demand plan
Formulate and solve the demand-supply matching problem using operations-research models that reconcile forecasted demand with hardware roadmaps, cooling, lead times, and power constraints to inform the Plan of Record Build across the full modeling spectrum: production-grade optimization and forecasting systems and prototype models and heuristics that answer a leadership question or unblock a decision
Set functional standards: define the operating model, bridge short- and long-term forecasts, track accuracy and supply-matching metrics, and close forecast-to-actual gaps
Partner with data center engineering, site selection, and hardware strategy teams to align next-generation data center designs, rack sizing, and hardware roadmaps with demand, eliminating stranded power, cooling, and space capacity
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
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.
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 normalize demand signals from short-term demand and product groups into a single trusted statistical long-term demand plan
Formulate and solve the demand-supply matching problem using operations-research models that reconcile forecasted demand with hardware roadmaps, cooling, lead times, and power constraints to inform the Plan of Record
Build across the full modeling spectrum: production-grade optimization and forecasting systems and prototype models and heuristics that answer a leadership question or unblock a decision
Partner with IDC engineering, site selection, and hardware strategy teams to align next-generation data center designs, rack sizing, and hardware roadmaps with demand, eliminating stranded power, cooling, and space capacity
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
MS in a quantitative field (Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, CS, or related)
PhD in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Management Science, or a related quantitative field
Nice to have: time series forecasting
Nice to have: hierarchical/probabilistic forecasting
