Regulatory Analyst

Paces (YC S22); New York (NY); On-site; USD 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Dog-friendly office

Paid holidays

Job summary

Paces seeks a Regulatory Data Analyst in Brooklyn, NY to QA local renewable-energy zoning regulations and build automated tooling for scalable oversight across jurisdictions. The role combines policy understanding with data-driven checks and AI-assisted workflows to improve siting accuracy.

You’ll verify primary sources, interpret ordinances precisely, and document clear rationales. A technical mindset with Python/SQL familiarity is a plus; remote-friendly with office in Williamsburg.

Qualifications

• Ability to read zoning ordinances, municipal codes and state statutes precisely.
• Proven skepticism: verify against primary sources, not AI outputs.
• Clear, concise written reasoning that becomes the record.

Responsibilities

• QA the country’s most comprehensive dataset of local zoning rules across jurisdictions.
• Build automated tooling to scale judgments and create AI-agent scripted checks.
• Adjudicate which government holds zoning authority and how ordinances are interpreted.

Skills

Regulatory reading

Python/SQL

Automation mindset

Scripting

Education

Environmental Policy / urban planning

Tools

Municode

eCode360

American Legal

Job description

Regulatory Data Analyst

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 and 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 exceptional people to join who want to have a massive positive climate impact while building a great culture!

What You'll Achieve

• QA the country's most comprehensive dataset of local renewable-energy zoning regulations — diving into ordinances and rules for solar, wind, battery storage, and data centers
• Build automated tooling to scale your own judgment — turning one-off rulings into scripted checks and AI-agent workflows that run across thousands of jurisdictions
• Adjudicate the hard calls: which government actually holds zoning authority, whether state law preempts local rules, and how a jurisdiction treats uses its ordinance never mentions

Requirements

• Comfort reading legal and regulatory text — zoning ordinances, municipal codes, state statutes — and interpreting it precisely
• A skeptic's mindset: you verify against the primary source, you don't take the AI's word for it
• Clear, concise written reasoning — your rationale becomes the record for why a value stands
• Detail-oriented and process-driven: comfortable working a large review queue without losing rigor
• Comfortable working in a technical environment: you don't need a CS degree, but you should be comfortable with AI-assisted coding, structured data, and scripting

About You

• Environmental Policy, urban planning, public policy or related background and genuinely enjoys reading ordinances
• You care about how clean energy actually gets sited — the county-by-county reality, not the abstraction
• You reach for automation when a task repeats — you'd rather spend a day scripting a check than a week clicking through rows
• Persistent on ambiguity: when an ordinance is silent or contradictory, you dig until you can defend an answer

Bonus Points

• Python/SQL experience, or you've built something with LLMs
• Knowledge of renewable energy siting or the solar/wind/BESS development process
• Land use / zoning coursework, or experience at a planning department, law firm, or as a paralegal
• Familiarity with Municode, eCode360, American Legal, or similar municipal-code platforms

Compensation and Benefits

• $85,000
• Full-time role
• Remote-friendly — with a preference to work from our office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
• Paid company holidays

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!

We've raised $18M+ led by Navitas Capital, Resolute Ventures and Y Combinator.