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title: 'Software Engineer, Geospatial Systems at Paces'
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# Software Engineer, Geospatial Systems at Paces

- **Company:** Paces
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/paces/am9icG9zdDo4ldCIZu_D7OHUZoLqccDr

## 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](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/lbnls-nationwide-interconnection-survey-has-good-news-and-bad-news-for-clean-energy) can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are providing software and services to accelerate power development - 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](https://maps.app.goo.gl/vE3Ewm1m9xRXY2SVA), 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. We are looking for exceptional talents to join our growing Software Engineering team. You will be working closely with power and permitting industry experts to automate power development! 🏆 What You’ll Achieve

- Research, prototype, and ship core parts of the geospatial engine at the heart of Paces — large-scale spatial search and analysis that energy developers depend on.
- Take open-ended, hard problems in computational geometry and performance — over tens of millions of parcels and nationwide infrastructure data — from prototype to production.
- Work across the full spatial stack: DuckDB, Arrow/GeoArrow, file-based spatial indexing, and a OLTP-backed data lake.
- Explore the frontier of geospatial computation — for example geospatial embeddings and foundation models (e.g. Clay) — and decide what's worth bringing into the product.
- Set the bar for correctness and performance on a system where wrong or slow answers carry real cost. 📈 Requirements
- 4+ years of experience building data intensive software in a similar role
- Strong computer-science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, graph theory, and a feel for where time and memory go.
- Fluency in a systems/backend language.
- A track record of building performant, correct backend systems — you can reason about a hot path and read a query plan.
- Experience with DuckDB, Apache Arrow, or comparable columnar/analytical data systems.
- A research mindset: comfort with open-ended problems, prototyping to learn, and knowing when to harden a prototype into a production system.
- Comfort owning ambiguous problems end-to-end and communicating tradeoffs clearly in writing. ✨ About You You will thrive in our culture if you:
- Correctness and performance matter to you. You measure before you claim, document your tradeoffs, and prefer a loud failure to a plausible wrong answer.
- You have real depth in the fundamentals and reach for the right primitive, not the familiar one.
- You operate with high agency — you scope ambiguous problems, decide, and own the outcome.
- You're pragmatic: you ship the simplest thing that solves a real problem. 🚀 Bonus Points
- Experience with a systems language — Rust, C, C++, Zig, or similar.
- A geospatial / GIS background: PostGIS, GDAL/raster drivers, GeoArrow, projections and coordinate systems, or computational-geometry libraries (GEOS, georust/geo).
- ML, embeddings, or geospatial foundation models (e.g. Clay).
- Familiarity with zarr / GeoZarr or other large-scale array/raster formats.
- Large-scale spatial pipelines, spatial indexing, or distributed/ephemeral compute.
- Open source contributor. 💰 Compensation and Benefits
- $150K - $220K annual compensation
- Competitive equity compensation
- 401(k) matching
- Health, Dental and Vision insurance
- Paid company holidays & PTO
- Hybrid work in the office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~3x per week ☀️ About Paces
- 🛠️ If you’re a [builder](https://substack.com/home/post/p-200906238) 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](https://www.jamesmcwalter.com/post/optimum) and are thought leaders in the evolving [data center](https://offgridai.us/) and [renewables](https://www.paces.com/white-papers/pre-development-at-scale-modeling-risk-in-early-stage-solar-development) 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](https://www.navitascap.com/portfolio), [Resolute Ventures](https://resolute.vc/) and [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/).

## 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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