Associate Applied (AI) Value Engineer (Orbit Program)

About the role

Celonis is recruiting an Associate Applied (AI) Value Engineer for its Orbit Graduate program, a 12-month immersive programme that starts with a 2-year onboarding period in Madrid and may include relocation to London. The role sits in the Value Engineering team, working with strategic customers in the UK on the intersection of technology and business, using the Celonis Process Intelligence platform together with AI and ML partners such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Databricks. Travel to meet UK clients in person is required.

Key responsibilities

• Understand customers' AI strategy and business-critical challenges, and turn their requirements into solutions that deliver value
• Build and code within the Celonis platform (SQL, PQL and Python) and prototype solutions in customer hackathons
• Support customers in moving from rule-based automation to autonomous AI agents, and run end-to-end Proof-of-Value projects
• Present the business value of solutions to senior executives and keep involved until agreed adoption thresholds are reached
• Specialise in domains or industries (e.g. supply chain) and contribute reusable collateral and best practices to the global Value Engineering center of excellence

Required profile

• Degree in Engineering, Data Analytics/Science, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related STEM field with excellent academic performance
• Extensive internship experience or 1-2 years of full-time work experience, ideally at the intersection of business and technology
• Understanding of generative AI techniques such as RAG, few-shot learning, prompt/context engineering and multi-agent orchestration
• Good knowledge of Python and common ML libraries (LangChain, pandas, pydantic, sklearn, PyTorch) and data engineering tools
• Excellent English, analytical and creative problem-solving skills, and a customer-centric, proactive approach
• Bonus points: degrees combining technical and business skills, customer-facing experience, hands-on proof-of-concept or agentic system work, supply chain process experience, ERP experience (SAP/Oracle) and ROI modelling

What we offer

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and merit-based refresh grants
• 24 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers
• Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and a flexible hybrid work model
• Mentorship, a learning platform and the 70-20-10 learning framework
• Wellbeing support, volunteering days and inclusion activities