Director, Lifecycle Engineering (Data Center)

Location: US; regular travel to data-center sites, supplier factories, and FAT/commissioning activities.

Salary: $210,000–$280,000 USD per year, with potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

Company

Nscale operates technology and data-center infrastructure requiring integrated equipment, asset, systems, and maintenance operations.

What you will do

• Own the lifecycle engineering roadmap, budget, standards, governance, and delivery for CMMS/EAM, PIM/PLM, integrations, and data-platform capabilities.
• Establish canonical equipment and asset identities, taxonomies, hierarchies, configurations, BOMs, documentation, and controlled data-entry processes.
• Lead equipment and asset data through product definition, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, installation, commissioning, handover, maintenance, and reliability operations.
• Manage CMMS/EAM master data and configuration, including preventive-maintenance strategies, task plans, parts, spares, warranties, and work-management data.
• Integrate DCIM, BMS, SCADA, and operational technology condition data with governed asset records and maintenance workflows.
• Build and lead the Lifecycle Engineering team, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers, and improve adoption, data quality, readiness, and reliability metrics.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, asset management, enterprise systems, or a related field, including 4+ years leading teams or complex cross-functional programs at manager, director, or equivalent level.
• Proven experience owning a CMMS/EAM platform at scale, including master data, preventive-maintenance strategy, work management, and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with PIM/PLM, configuration management, item masters, product variants, BOM structures, engineering change, and effectivity control.
• Strong enterprise systems background across ERP, procurement and supply-chain systems, document management, integrations, and master data governance.
• Experience with ITIL-aligned service management, controlled SOP/MOP/EOP and permit-to-work regimes, industrial data platforms, data stewardship, deduplication, and data-quality KPIs.
• Ability to own roadmaps, budgets, and standards while securing adoption and influencing senior stakeholders across organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Data-center plant knowledge covering electrical and mechanical systems such as UPS, switchgear, transformers, chillers, dry coolers, PDU, busway, BMS/EPMS, and OFCI/CFI delivery models.
• Experience integrating DCIM, BMS/SCADA, and OT/IIoT systems, including tag-to-asset mapping and alarm rationalization.
• Exposure to RAM, RCM, FMEA, RCA, ISO 14224, and ISO 55000 reliability methods and standards.
• Experience with BIM/COBie handover, digital-twin data exchange, and supplier lifecycle-data requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular collaboration across engineering, procurement, supply chain, construction, commissioning, operations, reliability, IT, data, finance, and HSE.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• Retirement plan participation.