Transmission Planning Engineer

🌎 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! We are looking for an exceptional Transmission Planning or Power Engineer to join our Solutions Engineering team, reporting directly to the Head of Success and Solutions.

🏆 What You’ll Achieve

Perform and interpret bulk transmission and interconnection analysis using commercial power flow software to pinpoint the best places to connect to the grid

Perform and review transmission planning, power flow, and stability studies using commercial tools (PSSE, TARA, PSLF, PSCAD, etc.) - guiding teammates on best practices and elevating the quality of all analyses.

Evaluate transmission system dynamics under high penetrations of renewables

Develop reasonable and technically supported study assumptions using the best available queue and grid upgrades datasets

Consider the technical and commercial viability of new generation and large load projects by forecasting upgrade costs

Work closely with the product and engineering teams to develop software solutions that enhance power system analysis at scale

Apply and expand your expertise in power systems and interconnection processes across different utilities and ISOs

Act as the domain expert within Paces to shape internal methodologies and inform product development

Generalize power system principles and utility processes into scalable software applications and proprietary datasets

📈  Requirements

3+ years of experience in power system studies, transmission planning, or interconnection engineering at a consultant, developer, ISO/RTO, or utility.

Deep familiarity with generator interconnection modeling in at least one major ISO/RTO (PJM, MISO, ERCOT, CAISO, WECC).

Proven ability to run and interpret power flow, stability, and upgrade cost studies; proficiency with tools like PSSE, TARA, PSLF, PSCAD.

Strong quantitative chops and an instinct for spotting flawed assumptions.

Experience mentoring or reviewing the work of junior engineers.

Comfortable being customer-facing , presenting results directly to external stakeholders.

Familiarity with scripting or automation (Python, MATLAB, etc.) to improve workflows.

✨ About You

Are a hands-on engineer who also loves raising the bar for those around you.

Enjoy stress-testing peers’ work and teaching others how to sharpen their craft.

Get a thrill out of presenting complex interconnection risks in plain English.

Default to action, curiosity, and building smarter workflows.

See AI as an opportunity to automate the grind so you can focus on the edge cases that really matter.