Senior Value Engineer (Public Sector) - Sacramento, CA

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Celonis

Celonis

Celonis is a leading company in Process Intelligence and Process Mining. Their platform, powered by process mining technology, helps businesses uncover and capitalize on value opportunities within their processes quickly and at scale. By revealing and ...

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2011
$2400M raised

Description

  • Understand public sector AI strategies and agency challenges to identify the best problem-solution fit.
  • Translate agency requirements into Celonis solutions that deliver measurable public impact.
  • Lead technical discovery, capability demonstrations, and procurement support during pre-sales cycles.
  • Stay engaged after sale to guide implementation, adoption, and value realization.
  • Rapidly build prototypes for agency hackathons to address high-priority operational pain points.
  • Support customers in shifting from rigid, paper-heavy workflows to autonomous AI-enabled processes.
  • Lead end-to-end proof-of-value projects, including solution architecture and delivery.
  • Build secure, scalable LLM and agent systems with RAG, tools, and guardrails.
  • Integrate solutions with government enterprise data, identity protocols, and compliance/security frameworks.
  • Serve as a technical subject matter expert for the State and Local Government vertical.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience leading technical pre-sales and post-sales engagements in the public sector, specifically State and Local Government.
  • Experience navigating government procurement cycles and building ROI business cases for public funds.
  • Deep understanding of state and local government business processes such as Health & Human Services, Procurement, Finance, DMV, or Public Safety.
  • Expertise in generative AI techniques including RAG, few-shot learning, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, multimodal understanding, or fine-tuning.
  • Solid knowledge of Python and common ML libraries such as LangChain, pandas, pydantic, sklearn, and PyTorch.
  • Experience with data engineering tools and technologies.
  • Strong presentation skills for internal and external stakeholders, including elected officials, agency directors, and IT leadership.
  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience preferred.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLM orchestration, RAG, function calling, and prompt engineering is a big plus.
  • Experience deploying and monitoring models at scale in government-compliant cloud environments such as AWS GovCloud or Azure Government is preferred.
  • Working knowledge of LLM ecosystem tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other open-source packages is preferred.
  • Visa sponsorship is not offered for this role.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $145,000 to $170,000 USD in California for a full-time schedule.
  • Total compensation includes base salary, bonus/commission, equity, and benefits.
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with merit-based refresh grants.
  • 24 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers, available from day one.
  • Unlimited PTO in applicable regions, plus generous PTO globally.
  • Flexible hybrid work model with remote focus and office collaboration.
  • Mentorship programs, a 70-20-10 learning framework, and access to a dedicated learning platform.
  • Subsidized Wellhub memberships, mental health counseling, and dedicated Wellness Weeks.

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