Software Engineer (Junior)

🌎 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 - 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.

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

Gain domain knowledge, build AI agents to truly automate human-driven work

Build automation to unlock new modeling capabilities that fundamentally changes the market

Have full ownership of projects, iterate closely with industry experts on end-to-end features

Scale up our platform and system to support ever growing traffic

Work in tight collaboration with the product team on product roadmap

📈 Requirements

Internship experiences building data intensive software at fast growing startups

Experience deploying AI agents in production environment , familiar with Agent SDK, Messages API, LangGraph

Proficient in Python, SQL, and comfortable working across the stack - backend, ETL, database, and infrastructure

Strong problem solving skills and the ability to work independently and in a team

You’re comfortable with ambiguity, unblock yourself, and make progress without waiting on perfect specs

✨ About You

You will thrive in our culture if you:

Have a strong bias towards action and prioritize execution

Share our passion to build something that fights climate change

Easily handle the unstructured environment of fast moving startups

Have the hunger to grow together with Paces as we scale up

🚀 Bonus Points

Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup

Previous experience working with geospatial data and platforms

Previous experience working with energy grid modeling or utility companies

💰 Compensation And Benefits

$110K - $160K 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 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.