AI Automation Engineer

Valsoft Corp; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software firm seeks an AI Automation Engineer to enhance business operations through automation. You will embed in various portfolio companies to audit workflows and identify automation opportunities, translating manual processes into efficient, automated systems. Ideal candidates should have proven experience in deploying effective automation solutions, strong problem-framing skills, and the ability to communicate the value of their work to non-technical stakeholders. This dynamic role offers significant impact and growth potential within the organization.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in automating real business workflows.
• Fluency with various automation tools and ability to choose the right one.
• Strong technical foundation to build production-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Audit workflows across departments and identify automation opportunities.
• Translate manual processes into reliable automated systems.
• Build and deploy automation across operations and internal tooling.
• Build and deploy automations across operations and sales; own ROI tracking.

Skills

Automation tooling proficiency

Problem-framing skills

Strong communication skills

Self-starter attitude

Production quality

Problem framing

Communication

Self-starter

Tools

Make

Zapier

n8n

Custom code

AI agent

Job description

Join the team transforming 150+ software companies with AI

Valsoft is a global firm thatacquiresand grows mission-critical vertical market software companies. Since 2015, we have built a portfolio of 150+ companies across 30+ industries,comprising4,000+ 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 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

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 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

What success looks like

• Within 30 days: You've completed a full workflow audit and have a clear, prioritized automation roadmap
• Within 90 days: At least two high-impact automations are live and driving measurable time or cost savings
• Within 6 months: You're a trusted resource with a track record of shipped solutions and real outcomes
• Long-term: You've built a repeatable playbook that defines how Valsoft operationalizes automation across its businesses — and you've got the metrics to prove it