Remote Principal, Facilities AI & Automation

Fleet Data Centers; United States; Remote; USD 114,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401K program

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Fleet Data Centers designs, builds and operates mega-scale data center campuses. The Principal – Facilities AI leads the strategy, use cases, standards, and roadmaps for applying AI, ML, and automation to critical facilities operations across engineering, data, and product teams.

This senior role partners with operations and data teams to translate operational problems into practical digital solutions that improve field execution, decision quality, and safety while ensuring governance and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in mission-critical facilities or related engineering disciplines.
• Automation, analytics, or ML applied to real operational workflows.
• Strong understanding of data center operations and telemetry.
• Translate operational problems into practical product/automation requirements.
• Strong data quality and systems integration knowledge.
• Excellent communication and executive presence.
• High standards for safety, governance, explainability.

Responsibilities

• Define Fleet’s facilities AI/ML/automation strategy across use cases like alarm rationalization, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and automation workflows.
• Identify high-value operational pain points and build business cases, requirements, and adoption plans.
• Partner with site operations, facilities engineering, critical systems, and data teams for grounded models and data.
• Establish governance for model quality, explainability, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Drive pilot design, validation criteria, sequencing, and scale-up decisions based on measurable performance.
• Shape data standards, instrumentation requirements, and telemetry quality for analytics.
• Create clear technical and operational documentation for adoption, auditing, and support.
• Serve as thought leader on AI/automation for critical infrastructure balancing innovation with reliability.
• Advise leaders on where automation should accelerate work and where humans should be supported.

Skills

10+ years experience

Automation

Analytics

Machine learning

Data center operations

Systems integration

Executive communication

Governance & safety

AI fundamentals

Tools

DCIM/SCADA/EPMS

Job description

Fleet Data Centers designs, builds and operates mega-scale data center campuses. The Principal – Facilities AI leads the strategy, use cases, standards, and roadmaps for applying AI, ML, and automation to critical facilities operations across engineering, data, and product teams.

This senior role partners with operations and data teams to translate operational problems into practical digital solutions that improve field execution, decision quality, and safety while ensuring governance and