VP of Engineering
AI summary of the role
Paces is a fast-growing startup building an AI-driven platform to accelerate renewable energy and data center development.
What you’ll do
- Define technical vision and execution strategy aligned with company goals.
- Balance shipping speed with product quality; implement lightweight processes for software and vertical AI teams.
- Recruit, onboard, and manage a diverse team of ICs and TLMs; foster a collaborative, high-velocity culture.
- Stay at the cutting edge of AI coding; design systems, write code, and review key PRs.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with 3+ years managing multi-team orgs in high-growth startups.
- Proven record scaling engineering orgs from 0 to 1 to N in data-intensive, vertical AI companies.
- Strong full-stack development, ETL, AI, and distributed systems background.
- Comfortable digging into systems with deep technology stacks.
Technologies
Agentic AI · full-stack development · ETL · distributed systems · AI coding · geospatial data · vertical AI
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
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. 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
More from the 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 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. Paces is growing rapidly and looking for a [... source excerpt omitted ...] LMs; 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 r [... source excerpt omitted ...] rld’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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