AI Engineer
About the role
AI Engineer at Paces, a YC-backed company building Agentic AI for power projects and AI infrastructure. Role focuses on developing data-intensive software and deploying AI agents to automate power development workflows.
Responsibilities
- 4+ years of experience building data intensive software
- Experience deploying AI agents in production environment, familiar with Agent SDK, Messages API, LangGraph
- Proficient in Python, SQL, and comfortable working across the stack - backend, ETL, database, and infrastructure
- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to work independently and in a team
- You’re comfortable with ambiguity, unblock yourself, and make progress without waiting on perfect specs
- Gain domain knowledge, build AI agents to automate human-driven work
- Build automation to unlock new modeling capabilities that fundamentally changes the market
- Have full ownership of projects, iterate closely with industry experts on end-to-end features
- Scale up our platform and system to support ever growing traffic
- Work in tight collaboration with the product team on product roadmap
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience building data intensive software
- Experience deploying AI agents in production environment
- Proficient in Python, SQL, and comfortable working across the stack - backend, ETL, database, and infrastructure
Skills
Benefits
- Hybrid work in the office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ~3x per week
- Health, Dental and Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Competitive equity compensation
- Paid company holidays & PTO

About Paces
Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure
Energy demand is skyrocketing, and renewable energy is the most scalable path forward. But today’s development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are building software and services to accelerate renewable energy deployment and lower costs - unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy. Paces automates early-stage due diligence and provides the expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence, fast-tracking projects from siting to construction-ready. Our platform supports renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, and more by streamlining siting, interconnection, and permitting. With Paces, teams can de-risk decisions, shorten timelines, and get more renewable energy projects built.
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