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# VP of Engineering at Paces

- **Company:** Paces
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/paces/am9icG9zdDqJsttm_jV7wVUG7A-2o5uR

## 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. Paces is growing rapidly and looking for a Head of Engineering, reporting to our CTO and Co-Founder. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will lead and scale our engineering team, nurture our builder culture, impact product direction and roadmap, write code, and review PRs.

🏆 What You’ll Achieve

- Technical Vision: Define technical vision and execution strategy that align with company goals.
- Execution Excellence: Balance between shipping speed and product quality; define lightweight but effective processes that work for both our software and vertical AI teams.
- Team Building: Recruit, onboard and manage a diverse team of ICs and TLMs; nurture our collaborative and high-velocity engineering culture.
- Hands-On Execution: Stay at the cutting edge of AI coding; design systems, write code and review key PRs.

📈 Requirements

- 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience, 3+ years managing and leading multi-team orgs in high-growth startups.
- Proven record scaling engineering organization from 0 -> 1 -> N in data intensive, vertical AI companies.
- Strong, versatile technical background, experienced with full-stack dev, ETL, AI and distributed systems.
- A high degree of comfort digging into systems with deep technology stacks.
- Track record building inclusive, high-performance cultures that attract and retain top talent.

✨ About You You will thrive in our culture if you:

- Share our passion to build something that fights climate change.
- Passion to work onsite along the team; comfortable juggling strategy and execution work.
- Genuinely excited about difficult challenges in a fast growing organization.

🚀 Bonus Points

- Former founder
- Previous experience working with geospatial data
- Previous experience working in climate or energy space

💰 Compensation and Benefits

- $230K - $290K 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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