AI Automation Engineer
AI summary of the role
Builds and deploys automation systems inside Valsoft's portfolio software companies to make their operations run better.
What you’ll do
- Embed inside portfolio companies to audit workflows and identify automation opportunities.
- Build and deploy automation across operations, sales, support, reporting, tooling.
- Own full delivery cycle: scoping, building, shipping, measuring, iterating.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience automating real business workflows that shipped and stuck.
- Fluency across automation tooling: Make, Zapier, n8n, custom code, or AI agents.
- Strong technical foundation to build production-quality solutions.
Source and classification
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Description Join the team transforming 150+ software companies with AI ABOUT VALSOFT: Valsoft is a global firm that acquires and grows mission-critical vertical market software companies. Since 2015, we have built a portfolio of 150+ companies across 30+ industries, comprising 4,000+ employees in over 20 countries. We're building the infrastructure, tools, and talent to make every business in our portfolio AI-native. We're hiring across 150+ vertical market software businesses in the Valsoft portfolio. The right candidate will be matched to a specific business where they can have an outsized impact from day one and an opportunity to work across multiple businesses over time. THE OPPORTUNITY: Engineers at Valsoft go where the hardest problems are — embedded directly inside portfolio companies, working alongside operators, product teams, and customers to solve complex, messy,
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Description Join the team transforming 150+ software companies with AI ABOUT VALSOFT: Valsoft is a global firm that acquires and grows mission-critical vertical market software companies. Since 2015, we have built a portfolio of 150+ companies across 30+ industries, comprising 4,000+ employees in over 20 countries. We're building the infrastructure, tools, and talent to make every business in our portfolio AI-native. We're hiring across 150+ vertical market software businesses in the Valsoft portfolio. The right candidate will be matched to a specific business where they can have an outsized impact from day one and an opportunity to work across multiple businesses over time. THE OPPORTUNITY: Engineers at Valsoft go where the hardest problems are — embedded directly inside portfolio companies, working alongside operators, product teams, and customers to solve complex, messy, high-stakes challenges that can't be fixed from a distance. As an AI Automation Engineer, you'll be the person who figures out how to make a business run better end to end. The product, internal ops, customer experience, back office — if it's manual and repeatable, it's your target. You're not here to consult. You're here to build and ship. What you’ll do Embed inside portfolio companies to audit their workflows across every department and identify automation opportunities Translate messy, manual p [... source excerpt omitted ...] e, 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 What we’re looking for Proven experience automating real business workflows — not just experiments, but things that shipped and stuck Fluency across automation tooling: you
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