Lead Applied Value Engineer

Celonis
Redwood City
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Presentation","Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Creative thinking"]

As an Applied AI Engineer you work with strategic customers to translate AI objectives into Celonis-based solutions, prototyping with leading AI/ML partners, and delivering value through ROI-focused PoVs. You’ll lead discovery, build rapid prototypes in hackathons, and architect scalable, secure LLM/agent systems integrated with enterprise data, guiding projects to adoption and measurable business impact.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Celonis
Celonis
3 months ago

Lead Applied Value Engineer

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 15 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

As an Applied AI Engineer you work with strategic customers to translate AI objectives into Celonis-based solutions, prototyping with leading AI/ML partners, and delivering value through ROI-focused PoVs. You’ll lead discovery, build rapid prototypes in hackathons, and architect scalable, secure LLM/agent systems integrated with enterprise data, guiding projects to adoption and measurable business impact.
Location: Redwood City
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •AI Discovery & Solutioning: Understand customers AI strategy and business critical challenges. As Celonis product & domain expert, find the best problem-solution fit and translate customer requirements into innovative solutions that move the needle.
  • •Hackathons & Prototyping: Think out of the box, have a can-do attitude and don’t shy away from complex problems. Leverage cutting edge AI technologies to rapidly build creative prototypes in customer hackathons solving business critical problems.
  • •Agentic Process Transformation: Support our customers in achieving real ROI out of AI deployments at scale enabling a fundamental shift in business operations from traditional, rule-based automation to the use of autonomous AI agents empowered by our Celonis Process Intelligence Platform.
  • •Proof projects: End-to-end execution of business-critical Proof-of-Value projects, incl. architecture and deliver secure, scalable LLM/agent systems with RAG, tools, and guardrails; integrating with enterprise data, identity, and compliance frameworks.
  • •Ensure Successful Project Outcome: Applied AI Engineers stay involved with projects until agreed value & adoption thresholds are reached.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:RsusHealth InsurancePaid LeaveParental Leave401k

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience leading technical pre-sales, including defining AI roadmaps, building compelling ROI/TCO business cases and prototyping of machine learning and generative AI solutions.
  • •Understanding of generative AI techniques like RAG, few shot learning, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, multimodal understanding, or fine-tuning that are used to build high-impact use cases like intelligent chatbots and automated text processors.
  • •Understanding of business processes across sectors (such as Supply Chain or Finance) with the ability to translate high-level business needs into specific AI use cases.
  • •Good knowledge of Python and common ML libraries (such as LangChain, pandas, pydantic, sklearn, PyTorch) as well as data engineering tools and technologies.
  • •Strong presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders (including executives), whether whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.
Experience:7+ yearsEnterprise SaaSAIProcess miningPre-sales
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:PresentationCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationCreative thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonLangChainPandasPydanticSklearnPyTorchRAGLLM orchestrationOpenAIDatabricksMicrosoftAzure AIGCP VertexAWS Bedrock

Company Brief

Celonis
Provides cloud-based process mining and execution management software that helps organizations visualize, analyze, and optimize business processes to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate operational transformation across enterprise systems.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Founded: 2011
WebsiteLinkedIn