Process Automation Engineer

Alien Technology Transfer empowers top-class innovators to transform visionary product concepts into commercial realities. We do this by helping companies with concrete growth ambitions to secure funding for their product development through our innovation consulting expertise. To date, we have raised more than $700 million for our clients - Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - across many domains, including agri-tech, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean-tech, cyber-security, quantum computing, space, and transport.

We’re looking for a versatile Process Automation Engineer to join Alien Technology Transfer at our office in Las Palmas. Working closely with and reporting directly to our CEO, you will play a central role in a company-wide review of how each of our departments operates. Your job is to understand how work actually gets done, identify where time, quality and effort are being lost, and then design, build and maintain the tools that fix it. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role that combines process analysis with full-stack engineering. You will spend time with department heads and their teams to map workflows and pinpoint inefficiencies. You will turn your findings into standardised processes and reliable software that is easily adopted. We are not looking for a specialist in a single layer, nor for someone who only writes code to a specification. We need a strong generalist who can diagnose a business problem, decide what should be standardised, automated or eliminated, and then deliver a working solution end-to-end.

To join our team, you must possess a genuine interest in technology and business, be fluent in English, and take a highly analytical, articulate, and well-organised approach to your work. We are seeking a self-motivated team player with a strong startup attitude and the stamina to thrive within an ambitious, goal-driven environment. The ideal candidate is eager to take on high levels of responsibility, possesses sharp problem-solving skills, and is proactive about staying up to date on the latest tools — AI or otherwise — to ensure top performance. You are energised by wearing multiple hats—effectively managing priorities and diverse deliverables autonomously without needing a detailed playbook. If you are ready to make a meaningful impact in this dynamic role, we would be excited to hear from you.

• Contract Type: Permanent.
• Hybrid Work Modality: Monday to Thursday at the Office (Las Canteras area) and Friday Work from Home.

Duties & Responsibilities

Process Diagnosis & Standardisation

• Work with each department to map current workflows and understand how work is actually done.
• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, duplicated effort, error-prone manual steps and activities that add little value, and quantify their impact where possible.
• Define standardised processes, templates and quality checks that reduce variability and prevent quality issues before they reach clients.
• Present findings and recommendations to the CEO and department heads, and prioritise improvements by impact and effort.

Tool Development & Platform Engineering

• Design, build and maintain internal tools and applications that enhance the performance of each department, from data layer through to API and user interface.
• Integrate tools with the systems our teams already use, such as Google Workspace, Odoo, and other AI-powered tools, so that solutions fit naturally into existing workflows usable by department personnel.
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code, and keep internal tools documented and easy to hand over.

Infrastructure & Deployment

• Set up, maintain, and improve our deployment pipelines, infrastructure, and environments.
• Handle the operational side of running the platform: CI/CD, monitoring, and keeping things stable and secure.

Adoption & Continuous Improvement

• Support teams in adopting new tools and processes through clear documentation, training and hands-on support.
• Define and track metrics that show whether each change is improving department performance, and iterate based on results and user feedback.
• Continuously identify new opportunities for standardisation and automation as the business evolves.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrable full-stack breadth.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM or other AI/ML-based solutions.
• Proven ability to analyse business processes and translate them into practical software or automation solutions.
• Ability to translate user needs into clear UI/UX requirements (user flows, screens, states, edge cases) and to evaluate and refine interfaces until they are intuitive for non-technical users.
• Practical experience with infrastructure, deployment, and DevOps practices (CI/CD, cloud environments, containerisation).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work with non-technical colleagues, understand their needs, and explain technical trade-offs clearly.
• A generalist mindset: comfortable owning a problem from diagnosis through to a deployed, maintained solution.
• Fluency in English (C1/C2 level) with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud.
• Experience building AI tools that work with documents, such as searching, summarising, extracting or checking text (e.g. RAG, vector databases, NLP).
• Experience with Google Workspace APIs and workflow-automation platforms (e.g. Zapier, n8n, Make).
• Knowledge of process-improvement methods such as Lean, Six Sigma or business process mapping.
• Experience in consultancy or professional-services environments, particularly in document-heavy work such as proposal or report writing.

What We Offer

• Competitive Fixed Salary
• Relocation & Bureaucracy Support: Dedicated guidance and administrative assistance for obtaining your Spanish NIE, social security, and local residency registration in Las Palmas.
• Work Flexibility: Hybrid work model (4 days onsite / 1 day WFH) + 20 extra remote working days per year to use at your convenience.
• Health & Wellbeing: Private health insurance coverage.
• Time Off: 30 days of paid annual leave.
• Company Culture: Regular team-building events, social activities, and a vibrant work environment in a co-working space just 50 meters from the beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Please note: Due to the high volume of candidates, we are unfortunately unable to provide individual feedback on the outcome of every application.