Experience interpreting zoning ordinances and municipal codes
Strong verification skills with a focus on primary sources
Ability to articulate clear written reasoning
Attention to detail and process orientation
Comfort with AI-assisted coding and structured data
Responsibilities
QA extensive local renewable-energy zoning datasets
Develop automated tools for efficient compliance checks
Resolve complex zoning authority issues
Interpret contradictory or silent ordinances with diligence
Manage a large queue of regulatory reviews effectively
Benefits
Remote-friendly position with office preference in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Paid company holidays
Opportunity to work on impactful clean energy initiatives
Engage with comprehensive datasets affecting local governance
Full Job Description
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
