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title: 'Regulatory Analyst at Paces'
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# Regulatory Analyst at Paces

- **Company:** Paces
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/paces/am9icG9zdDpXa2hlYe6G-BvPg_NnRMis

## Job description

🌎 The Opportunity In the next 30 years, the world will transform every part of the built environment to be climate positive green infrastructure. But today's renewable energy development process can't move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are providing software and services to accelerate power development and unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it's built with renewable energy. 🛠️ Our Solution Paces is building the development engine for renewable infrastructure and power projects. We have built Agentic AI that automates early-stage due diligence and pairs it with in-house expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence. The result: projects move from siting to construction-ready in a fraction of the time. Our platform streamlines siting, interconnection, and permitting for renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, and more. 🧑‍🎨 Our Team We are building a team where people can proudly say their time at Paces is the most impactful, meaningful work of their career. Our amazing team in Brooklyn, New York includes incredible team members from tech companies like Meta AI, DeepMind, and Tesla; various high growth startups; as well as industry leaders from TotalEnergies, Con Edison and GE. Paces is growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join who want to have a massive positive climate impact while building a great culture! 🏆 What You'll Achieve

- QA the country's most comprehensive dataset of local renewable-energy zoning regulations — diving into ordinances and rules for solar, wind, battery storage, and data centers
- Build automated tooling to scale your own judgment — turning one-off rulings into scripted checks and AI-agent workflows that run across thousands of jurisdictions
- Adjudicate the hard calls: which government actually holds zoning authority, whether state law preempts local rules, and how a jurisdiction treats uses its ordinance never mentions 📈 Requirements
- Comfort reading legal and regulatory text — zoning ordinances, municipal codes, state statutes — and interpreting it precisely
- A skeptic's mindset: you verify against the primary source, you don't take the AI's word for it
- Clear, concise written reasoning — your rationale becomes the record for why a value stands
- Detail-oriented and process-driven: comfortable working a large review queue without losing rigor
- Comfortable working in a technical environment: you don't need a CS degree, but you should be comfortable with AI-assisted coding, structured data, and scripting ✨ About You
- Environmental Policy, urban planning, public policy or related background and genuinely enjoys reading ordinances
- You care about how clean energy actually gets sited — the county-by-county reality, not the abstraction
- You reach for automation when a task repeats — you'd rather spend a day scripting a check than a week clicking through rows
- Persistent on ambiguity: when an ordinance is silent or contradictory, you dig until you can defend an answer 🚀 Bonus Points
- Python/SQL experience, or you've built something with LLMs
- Knowledge of renewable energy siting or the solar/wind/BESS development process
- Land use / zoning coursework, or experience at a planning department, law firm, or as a paralegal
- Familiarity with Municode, eCode360, American Legal, or similar municipal-code platforms 💰 Compensation and Benefits
- $85,000
- Full-time role
- Remote-friendly — with a preference to work from our office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Paid company holidays ☀️ About Paces 🛠️ If you're a builder who wants to actively construct a more climate positive future, join us! 🗺️ We are enabling the climate optimum use for all the world's land and are thought leaders in the evolving data center and renewables markets. 🐕 We have a dog calendar and have dogs running around in the office. 🌞 We have world class customers and are growing! 📢 We've raised $18M+ led by Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator.

## About Paces

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paces is an AI-powered platform that accelerates renewable energy and data center infrastructure development by automating early-stage site diligence, de-risking projects, and shortening the path to shovel-ready.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: James McWalter (CEO) and Charles Bai (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Renewable energy infrastructure / Clean energy software
- **Target customers**: Renewable energy developers, data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, heavy energy users (e.g., hydrogen plants, direct air capture), and financial firms evaluating green assets
- **Mission**: To become the development engine for power projects and renewable infrastructure, enabling teams to move from siting to construction-ready in a fraction of the time.

## Products & Services
- **Paces AI Agent**: An AI agent that autonomously completes key workflows for site viability, grid constraint assessment, and permitting analysis.
- **Paces Software Platform**: A unified stack of software, modular reports, and expert-validated services that automates early-stage due diligence and accelerates late-stage diligence.
- **Power and Permitting Reports**: Expert-validated reports delivered at 5× speed, combining human expertise with AI to provide actionable results.
- **Development-as-a-Service (DaaS)**: In-house development management services for late-stage diligence, including transmission planning and power market analysis.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$13.9M** (Series A of $11M led by Navitas Capital, with prior rounds from Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures, Y Combinator
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 58 employees (LinkedIn), growing rapidly with 13 open positions
  - Workforce distributed across United States, Mexico, and Australia
  - LinkedIn followers: 8,220 (yearly growth +53.4%)
  - Claims to help developers reach power up to 3× faster and halve time to shovel-ready

## Competitive Advantages
- **Rare team composition**: Combines world-class software engineers from Meta AI, DeepMind, AWS, NASA, and Tesla with energy industry veterans from TotalEnergies, Nexamp, Con Edison, and GE.
- **Agentic AI for due diligence**: Automates workflows that traditionally require expensive manual effort, enabling parallel development stages.
- **Full-stack approach**: Integrates software, AI, and expert services to cover both early-stage and late-stage diligence, reducing project cancellation risk (80% of clean energy projects fail due to insufficient early due diligence).

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and data center projects to meet skyrocketing energy demand and climate goals.
- Expand platform capabilities to support a wider range of energy infrastructure, including solar, EV charging, data centers, and industrial loads.
- Scale pipeline without scaling headcount by automating diligence and de-risking decisions earlier.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Employees describe their work as "the most impactful, meaningful work of their career" – directly contributing to climate-positive infrastructure.
- **Culture**: Offsites for thinking and connection, karaoke, unconferences where team members share passions (from espresso to Capoeira), lunch-and-learns, and a dog-friendly office (with a dog calendar).
- **Work policy**: All current openings are listed as **in-office** in Brooklyn, NY. The team values in-person collaboration.
- **Perks**: Fun, collaborative environment with a strong mission; opportunity to work alongside top talent from both tech and energy sectors.

## Sources
1. [paces.com](https://www.paces.com/)
2. [paces.com/about](https://www.paces.com/about)
3. [jobs.gem.com/paces](https://jobs.gem.com/paces)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/paces](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/paces)
5. [linkedin.com/company/pacesai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacesai)

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