Facilities AI Leader: Data Center Automation & Strategy

Fleet Data Centers; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-covered medical, dental,

Vision insurance

Job summary

Fleet Data Centers, based in the United States, seeks a Principal – Facilities AI to lead the strategy, use cases, and standards for applying AI, ML, and automation to mission-critical facilities. The role spans Operations, Facilities Engineering, Critical Systems, Data, and Product/Technology to translate operational problems into scalable digital solutions.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in facilities or automation, strong governance and exec-facing communication, and a track record

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience spanning mission-critical facilities, industrial automation, data systems, or related engineering.
• Experience applying automation, analytics, or machine learning to real operational workflows or physical infrastructure environments.
• Strong understanding of data center operations, critical systems, maintenance, telemetry, or industrial monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Define Fleet’s facilities AI, ML, and automation strategy across use cases such as alarm rationalization, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, workflow automation, digital assistants, failure prediction, and operational reporting.
• Identify high-value operational pain points and build the business cases, requirements, and adoption plans needed to implement solutions that matter.
• Partner with site operations, facilities engineering, critical systems, and data teams to ensure models and automations are grounded in real operating conditions and trustworthy data.
• Establish governance for model quality, explainability, human-in-the-loop controls, change management, and risk management in operational environments.
• Drive pilot design, validation criteria, implementation sequencing, and scale-up decisions based on measurable performance.

Skills

Executive presence

Data center operations

Automation & analytics

AI fundamentals

Governance & safety

Stakeholder influence

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

DCIM

SCADA

CMMS

Telemetry

Job description

Fleet Data Centers, based in the United States, seeks a Principal – Facilities AI to lead the strategy, use cases, and standards for applying AI, ML, and automation to mission-critical facilities. The role spans Operations, Facilities Engineering, Critical Systems, Data, and Product/Technology to translate operational problems into scalable digital solutions.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in facilities or automation, strong governance and exec-facing communication, and a track record