# Applied Value Engineer

**Company:** [Celonis](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/celonis)
**Location:** Redwood City, CA, California
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $161k – $191k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, LangChain, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, Pydantic, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Llm Orchestration, Multi-Agent Systems
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Builds AI prototypes and solutions using Celonis Process Intelligence platform for strategic customers, focusing on generative AI, agentic systems, and proof-of-value projects to drive ROI and adoption. Requires 7+ years in technical pre-sales, Python/ML expertise, and business process knowledge.

## Job Description

## 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
- **Specialize in Domains or Industries**: To scale knowledge across the organization Applied AI Engineers specialize in domains (e.g. supply chain) and industries

## 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.
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent work experience preferred.

## Nice to have (big plus)

- Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLM orchestration, RAG, function calling, and prompt engineering, while ensuring safety through rigorous evaluations and guardrails.
- Working knowledge of tools in the LLM ecosystem such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other OSS packages.
- Experience in deploying and monitoring models at scale across major cloud platforms (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, GCP Vertex)

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