Regulatory Data Analyst
About The Position
Paces is seeking a Regulatory Data Analyst to join their team. This role involves QAing the country's most comprehensive dataset of local renewable-energy zoning regulations, including ordinances and rules for solar, wind, battery storage, and data centers. The analyst will also build automated tooling to scale judgment, turning one-off rulings into scripted checks and AI-agent workflows. Key responsibilities include adjudicating complex decisions regarding government zoning authority, state law preemption, and how jurisdictions handle unmentioned uses in their ordinances.
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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- Full-time role
- Remote-friendly — with a preference to work from our office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
- Paid company holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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