**🌎 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**
- $220K - $280K 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/).
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
