# Software Engineer, Geospatial Systems at Paces

- Company: Paces (YC S22)
- What the company does: Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://paces.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-07
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/paces/jobs/IEYY2OZ-software-engineer-geospatial-systems
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/paces-software-engineer-geospatial-systems/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- Research, prototype, and ship core parts of the geospatial engine at the heart of Paces — large-scale spatial search and analysis that energy developers depend on
- Take open-ended, hard problems in computational geometry and performance — over tens of millions of parcels and nationwide infrastructure data — from prototype to production
- Work across the full spatial stack: DuckDB, Arrow/GeoArrow, file-based spatial indexing, and a OLTP-backed data lake
- Explore the frontier of geospatial computation — for example geospatial embeddings and foundation models (e.g. Clay) — and decide what's worth bringing into the product
- Set the bar for correctness and performance on a system where wrong or slow answers carry real cost
- 4+ years of experience building data intensive software in a similar role

Tags: Engineering