Power Engineer
Paces (YC S22)
Brooklyn, NY, USA
USD 130k-170k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 22, 2025
Power Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
Power Engineering
In office
Full-time
🌎 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 power projects and renewable infrastructure. 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 is projects that move from siting to construction-ready in a fraction of the time. Our platform supports renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, and more by streamlining siting, interconnection, and permitting.
🧑🎨 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 Power Engineers to join our team!
🏆 What You’ll Achieve
- Perform and interpret bulk transmission and interconnection analysis using commercial power flow software to pinpoint the best places to connect to the grid
- Evaluate transmission system dynamics under high penetrations of renewables
- Develop reasonable and technically supported study assumptions using the best available queue and grid upgrades datasets
- Consider the technical and commercial viability of new generation and large load projects by forecasting upgrade costs
- Work closely with the product and engineering teams to develop software solutions that enhance power system analysis at scale
- Apply and expand your expertise in power systems and interconnection processes across different utilities and ISOs
- Act as the domain expert within Paces to shape internal methodologies and inform product development
- Generalize power system principles and utility processes into scalable software applications and proprietary datasets
📈 Requirements
- 1-7 years of formal experience in power system studies, transmission planning, or interconnection engineering at consultant, developer, or utility
- Deep familiarity with generator interconnection modeling in at least one major ISO/RTO (e.g., PJM, MISO, ERCOT, CAISO, WECC, etc.)
- Strong quantitative ability and understanding of transmission studies; experience with TARA/PSSE or similar software
- Ability to think beyond traditional engineering approaches and contribute to product innovation
- Extremely ambitious and passionate about creating value through creative, iterative thinking and automation
✨ About You
You will thrive in our culture if you:
- You love deep in person collaboration
- You get a thrill out of learning fast and teaching others
- You have a strong bias towards action and are always looking for better ways to automate tedious tasks
🚀 Bonus Points
- Previous experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup
- Previous experience with GIS
- Scripting skills in Python
💰 Compensation and Benefits
- $130,000 - $170,000 annual compensation
- Competitive equity compensation
- 401(k) match
- 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!
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