Senior Applied Value Engineer - High Tech

As Senior Applied Value Engineer, you are a strategic pioneer leading the charge in solving complex, business-critical problems for our customers. Working with our most strategic global accounts, you will diagnose their strategy and key operational challenges to discover and build tailored, domain-specific use cases . You will architect and prototype state-of-the-art AI and technical solutions on the Celonis platform, demonstrate their business impact to C-suite Executives, and ensure successful implementation, adoption, and value realization.

• Executive-Facing Presales & Value Engineering (5+ years): Demonstrated experience independently owning the technical close and driving compelling AI transformation narratives. Requires a proven background in accountable PoV execution, complex ROI/TCO modeling, and showcasing the "Art of the Possible" by pitching visionary solutions to hidden problems—with a clear track record of driving projects all the way through to achieved value.
• Domain & Industry Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of core operational workflows and industry landscapes (e.g., supply chain, finance). You can speak the language of C-suite executives and seamlessly connect complex, systemic bottlenecks to strategic AI solutions.
• Agentic AI Systems: Advanced architectural mastery of LLM orchestration, tool use/function calling, RAG, agents, prompt engineering, and agentic patterns for enterprise workflows.
• Math & Operations Research: Practical, expert-level application of linear/nonlinear optimization, rigorous statistical analysis, reinforcement learning, and advanced predictive forecasting.
• Production ML/LLMOps at Scale: Extensive experience in designing deployment architectures and dictating reliability standards for production-grade AI across cloud providers (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, GCP Vertex AI).
• Software/Data Engineering: Python proficiency, modular API design, creating reusable libraries, advanced SQL, and scalable data integration using ML/AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, Hugging Face).
• AI Architecture & Security: Proven ability to architect secure enterprise cloud environments, ensuring stringent adherence to identity and access management (IAM) protocols, data governance frameworks, global privacy laws, and overarching security standards.
• Strong presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders (including executives), whether white boarding sessions or formal readouts and demos. Flawless English with exceptional executive presence.
• Degree: Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• The base salary range below is for the role in the specified location, based on a Full Time Schedule. Total compensation package will include base salary + bonus/commission + equity + benefits (health, dental, life, 401k, and paid time off). Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and that the actual total compensation offer will be determined based on various factors, including, but not limited to, applicant's qualifications, skills, experiences, and location.
• The base salary range below is for the role in California, based on a Full Time Schedule.
• $200,000
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• $235,000 USD