AI Automation Engineer

Valsoft Corporation is a global firm that acquires and grows mission-critical vertical market software companies. They are seeking an AI Automation Engineer to embed within portfolio companies, audit workflows, and identify automation opportunities to enhance business operations.

Responsibilities:

• Embed inside portfolio companies to audit their workflows across every department and identify automation opportunities
• Translate messy, manual processes into clean, reliable automated systems — using AI, no-code, custom code, or whatever actually works
• Interview stakeholders, map processes, and diagnose root causes before writing a line of code
• Build and deploy automation across operations, sales, customer support, reporting, and internal tooling
• Own the full delivery cycle: scoping, building, shipping, measuring, and iterating
• Work directly with company leadership to prioritize what gets built and communicate ROI clearly
• Operate across multiple portfolio companies over time, building a repeatable playbook for what works

Requirements:

• Proven experience automating real business workflows — not just experiments, but things that shipped and stuck
• Fluency across automation tooling: you know when to use Make, Zapier, n8n, custom code, or an AI agent — and you pick the right one
• Strong technical foundation — you can build production-quality solutions, not just prototypes
• Exceptional problem-framing skills: you ask the right questions before jumping to solutions
• High comfort with ambiguity — you thrive when the brief is 'this is costing us time but we don't know why'
• Strong communicator — you can explain what you built, why it works, and what it's worth to non-technical leadership
• Self-starter who moves fast and leaves systems better than you found them