Senior Applied Value Engineer - UKI Energy, Oil & Gas

Celonis; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Celonis seeks a Senior Applied Value Engineer to solve mission-critical problems for strategic customers using Celonis PI Platform and leading AI/ML technologies from partners like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Databricks. You will prototype solutions, demonstrate value to executives, and ensure adoption and ROI across AI deployments at scale.

You will collaborate with customers to translate business objectives into high-impact AI use cases, build proofs of value, and guide projects from architecture

Qualifications

• 6+ years leading technical pre-sales, including defining AI roadmaps and ROI/TCO business cases.
• Experience prototyping ML and generative AI solutions for high-impact use cases like intelligent chatbots and automated text processors.
• Understanding of business processes across sectors (e.g., supply chain, finance) and translating needs into AI use cases.

Responsibilities

• AI Discovery & Solutioning: translate customer requirements into innovative AI solutions.
• Hackathons & Prototyping: rapidly build prototypes for customer challenges.
• Agentic Process Transformation: enable ROI from AI deployments at scale with autonomous agents.
• Proof projects: end-to-end value projects with architecture and secure, scalable LLM/agent systems.
• Ensure Successful Project Outcome: maintain involvement until value/adoption thresholds are met.
• Specialize in Domains or Industries: scale knowledge by domain/industry.

Skills

Python

LangChain

pandas

pydantic

sklearn

PyTorch

Generative AI

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related fields

Master's Degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related fields

Job description

Celonis is the global leader in Process Intelligence and the pioneer of Process Mining technology. As one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies, we are changemakers pushing the boundaries of what's possible. We invest heavily in advanced AI capabilities-specifically our Process Intelligence Graph-to turn data insights into immediate business action. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by placing intelligence at the core of every business process. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.

The Team:

As an Senior Applied Value Engineer you push the envelope in solving mission-critical problems for our customers. You will work with our most strategic customers, understand their strategy and key challenges, and build Celonis solutions using cutting-edge AI technologies from market leaders such as Microsoft and OpenAI. With Celonis' market-leading Process Intelligence (PI) Platform we feed operational context to AI so it understands our customers' businesses and enables them to industrialize AI unlocking real ROI on AI deployments and at scale. There is no AI without PI. You will prototype these solutions, demonstrate their value to executives, and ensure successful implementation, adoption and value realization to increase Celonis' footprint at those customers.

Role Description

As a Senior Applied Value Engineer you are pushing the envelope in solving business-critical problems for our customers. You will be working with our most strategic customers, understanding their objectives and key challenges, and building Celonis solutions using the world's leading Process Intelligence (PI) platform in combination with the largest AI and ML technology partners, such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Databricks. With Celonis' Process Intelligence (PI) platform we feed operational context to AI so it understands our customers' business and enables them to industrialize AI unlocking real ROI on AI deployments and at scale. There is no AI without PI. You will prototype these solutions, demonstrate their value to Executives and ensure successful implementation, adoption and value realization in order to increase the footprint of Celonis at those customers.

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: Senior Applied Value Engineer stay involved with projects until agreed value & adoption thresholds are reached
• Specialize in Domains or Industries: To scale knowledge across the organization Senior Applied Value Engineer specialize in domains (e.g. supply chain) and industries

Requirements

• 6+ 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