# Head of Engineering

**Company:** [Paces](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-companies/paces)
**Location:** Brooklyn, United States
**Work mode:** On-site
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 220K–280K/yr
**Category:** Aerospace Engineering
**Listed:** 2026-06-10

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## Job description

**🌎 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/).

## Other open roles at Paces

- [VP of Product](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/paces/vp-of-product-112544) — Brooklyn, United States / Remote (US)
- [Software Engineer, Geospatial Systems](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/paces/software-engineer-geospatial-systems-98461) — Brooklyn, United States
- [Product Marketer](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/paces/product-marketer-98460) — Brooklyn, United States
- [Software Engineer, Full Stack](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/paces/software-engineer-full-stack-95062) — Brooklyn, United States
- [Software Engineer (Junior)](https://zerogtalent.com/ai-jobs/paces/software-engineer-junior-95061) — Brooklyn, United States

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