VP of Engineering
$230k - $290kPACES
VP of Engineering
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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