The Role
QA and interpret municipal, county, and state zoning and regulatory text for renewable-energy siting; build scripted checks and AI-agent tooling to scale reviews; resolve jurisdictional and preemption questions and document clear rationale.
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🌎 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.
Skills Required
- Comfort reading and precisely interpreting zoning ordinances, municipal codes, and state statutes
- Verify findings against primary sources rather than relying on AI outputs (skeptic's mindset)
- Clear, concise written reasoning to document rationale for values and decisions
- Detail-oriented and process-driven; able to manage a large review queue without losing rigor
- Comfortable working in a technical environment; familiarity with AI-assisted coding, structured data, and scripting
- Background in environmental policy, urban planning, public policy, or related field
- Experience with Python or SQL, or experience building with large language models (LLMs)
- Knowledge of renewable energy siting or solar/wind/BESS development processes
- Land use / zoning coursework or experience at a planning department, law firm, or as a paralegal
- Familiarity with municipal-code platforms such as Municode, eCode360, or American Legal
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The Company
What We Do
Energy demand is skyrocketing, and renewable energy is the most scalable path forward. But today’s development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are building software and services to accelerate renewable energy deployment and lower costs - unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy. Paces automates early-stage due diligence and provides the expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence, fast-tracking projects from siting to construction-ready. Our platform supports renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, and more by streamlining siting, interconnection, and permitting. With Paces, teams can de-risk decisions, shorten timelines, and get more renewable energy projects built.
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