# AI Automation Engineer > Valsoft Corporation · Toronto, Canada (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-02-26 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Research & Development ## Description **AI Automation Engineer** **Aspire Software is seeking an AI Automation Engineer to join our growing team in Toronto!** **About The Role** Aspire Software is looking for an **AI Automation Engineer**, someone who can design, build, and ship AI agents that either transform how our portfolio companies operate or become standalone products our customers pay for. This is not a research role. You will be embedded directly inside Aspire Software, working alongside portfolio company teams, understanding their operations, and building AI agents that handle real work: customer service, sales outreach, onboarding, documentation, and more. Some of what you build will replace manual workflows within Aspire’s portfolio companies. Some of it will become new revenue-generating products sold to their customer bases. Either way, it ships to real users. **Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software** is an operating group of Valsoft Corporation, a long-term investor in vertical market software businesses. Valsoft acquires and operates software companies with a permanent ownership mindset, emphasizing autonomy, disciplined growth, and long-term value creation. Aspire partners with and operates vertical market software businesses globally, enabling them to scale sustainably while maintaining entrepreneurial independence. **The successful candidate will be based anywhere within commutable distance of our office in Toronto, working in a hybrid work model!** **What your day will look like****:** **Build Internal AI Agent Teams** - Design and deploy AI agents that handle operational work across Aspire Software and its portfolio companies, including customer support tiers 1 and 2, SDR and sales outreach, onboarding automation, content and marketing workflows, and engineering maintenance - Measure impact in hours of labor replaced or team output increased - Work directly with portfolio company operators to identify the highest value automation opportunities **Build External AI Products** - Develop new AI-powered products such as vertical voice agents, AI copilots, workflow automation tools, and AI documentation systems tailored to Aspire’s vertical markets - Own the product from prototype through launch, including reaching first paying customers **Ship and Iterate** - Move fast from idea to MVP to production - Run beta tests with real users, gather feedback, and improve continuously - Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams **About You****:** **What You Bring** - Proven track record of building products, tools, projects, startups, or side projects that went live - Strong working knowledge of AI and machine learning tools, large language models, and agent frameworks - Ability to go from zero to functional prototype quickly - Comfort with ambiguity. You will often be defining the problem as much as the solution - Bias toward action over planning **Nice to Have** - Experience building AI agents, voice agents, or workflow automation - Background in vertical SaaS or B2B product development - Familiarity with the security industry - Previous startup or founder experience - Experience working across multiple product lines or business units - A bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, Mechanical Engineering or a similar discipline **Why Join Aspire Software** - You build things that ship to real customers, not internal tools that collect dust - High ownership. You define what gets built and how - Growth path tied to the impact you create, whether that is scaling an internal AI operation or launching a product that becomes its own business unit **Compensation** - **Base Salary:** Competitive - **Variable Compensation:** High-upside, performance-driven pay tied directly to the value you create — structured as a percentage of internal cost savings from AI agent deployments and incremental revenue from new AI products. The more impact you drive, the more you earn - **Benefits:** Health coverage and a dedicated building budget for APIs, tools, and infrastructure **Ready to Build With Us?** - If you're energetic, scrappy, and ready to build something exceptional from the ground up, we would love to hear from you **Required** - Your resume - A short note (5–10 sentences) describing the first AI agent you would build if you started tomorrow, and why For information about **Aspire Software,** please visit our website at [www.aspiresoftware.com](http://www.aspiresoftware.com) **We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.** ## Apply [Apply at Valsoft Corporation](https://apply.workable.com/valsoft-corp/j/8EC3181439/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)