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 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
Valsoft Corporation is an operating group that acquires and builds mission-critical software businesses for the long term, operating through subsidiaries including Aspire Software and Dockmaster Software. The company serves diverse vertical markets including higher education, public sector, and marine industries with specialized software solutions. Valsoft provides operational expertise, stability, and resources to support the growth and innovation of its portfolio companies. Key products include Dockmaster, the marine industry's comprehensive marina management software platform founded in 1983, and Orbit, a cloud-based software lifecycle management solution for IT asset management in higher education and public sector organizations.
