Meta will begin terminating employees in Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond and remote positions on July 22, cutting nearly 1,400 workers across Washington state as the company pushes ahead with another major overhaul. The layoffs hit software engineers, data scientists, content designers and IT staff, according to a state filing received Friday.
Bellevue is set to take the biggest hit, with 699 workers affected. Meta will also cut 259 employees across two Seattle offices, 206 workers in Redmond and 231 remote employees statewide. The numbers land in one of the state’s busiest tech corridors, where Meta has long maintained a significant footprint.
The move follows last week’s announcement that Meta planned to eliminate roughly 10% of its workforce while shifting thousands of employees into AI-focused roles. A spokesperson said the changes vary by team and include layoffs, open role closures and moving thousands of employees to business critical priorities across the company.
That explanation fits the company’s broader turn toward artificial intelligence, but it also shows how sharply the cost of that pivot is being felt in Washington. Meta is spending billions on AI infrastructure, including data centers, advanced chips and internal AI tools, even as it trims jobs in offices that have been central to its engineering and product work.
The tension is plain in the filing and the company’s own message: Meta says it is moving people toward the most important priorities, yet the first visible result in Washington is a wave of layoffs spread across Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond and remote teams. With nearly 78,000 workers globally at the end of March, the cuts are large enough to reshape local teams, but still part of a much larger company-wide reset.
What happens next is already on the calendar. The terminations begin July 22, and the WARN notice filed with Washington state gives the first detailed look at how the cuts will ripple through one of the region’s most important tech employers.
