Solutions Engineer - Project Development
Paces (YC S22)
Brooklyn, NY, USA
USD 150k-170k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 22, 2025
Solutions Engineer - Project Development
Brooklyn, NY
Solutions
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 Solutions Engineers to join our team, reporting directly to the Head of Solutions.
🏆 What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead development-driven projects across site origination, permitting, and interconnection
- Run site screening processes across greenfield and acquisition pathways, including outreach, LOI negotiation, and economic modeling.
- Translate regulatory requirements (local permitting, AHJ engagement, etc.) into clear roadmaps and submitted applications.
- Automate away inefficiency
- Build and maintain internal tooling and repeatable workflows to eliminate manual steps in site evaluation and diligence.
- Contribute ideas to the product roadmap based on frontline exposure to pain points in the deployment lifecycle.
- Act as the internal developer voice
- Champion customer and market context in product discussions, ensure our siting, permitting, and power products reflect on-the-ground realities.
- File clear product tickets, surface patterns across projects, and participate in design reviews.
- Mentor and level-up the org
- Support Associate Solutions Engineers, codify learnings into playbooks, and actively improve how Paces delivers on high-speed development projects.
📈 Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in renewable energy, data center infrastructure, or utility-scale development. Roles may include: Development Engineer, Site Acquisition Manager, Interconnection Analyst, or Deployment Strategist.
- Hands-on comfort with GIS tools to analyze geospatial or interconnection data.
- Strong communication skills; you can confidently interface with landowners, utilities, permitting agencies, and internal product/engineering teams.
- Understanding of project economics, interconnection milestones, and permitting workflows.
✨ About You
- You wake up excited about grid infrastructure, climate tech, or the data-center energy arms race.
- You’re energized by rolling up your sleeves and executing: sourcing parcels, submitting interconnection filings, or debugging model output.
- You thrive in ambiguity and find fulfillment in solving un-scoped problems.
- You have a meticulous attention to detail and a passion for getting it right, whether that’s a zoning map, load flow model, or customer proposal.
🚀 Bonus Points
- Prior experience at a high-growth startup or deployment-focused consultancy.
- Exposure to permitting in local jurisdictions and working with AHJs.
- Hands-on comfort with Python or internal scripting frameworks to automate tasks.
💰 Compensation and Benefits
- $150,000-$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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