Senior Applied AI Engineer - Life Sciences

Role Description

As an Applied AI Engineer specializing in the Life Sciences, you are pushing the envelope in solving business-critical problems for the world's largest, most diversified life science organizations. You will be working intimately with this strategic client, understanding their uniquely complex objectives—spanning from logistics to the precision distribution of advanced products—and building Celonis solutions using the world’s leading Process Intelligence (PI) platform in combination with top AI and ML technology partners (e.g., Microsoft, OpenAI, Databricks)..

With Celonis’ Process Intelligence (PI) platform, we feed operational context to AI so it understands the intricate realities of our customers’ supply chain networks and enables them to industrialize AI. This unlocks real ROI on AI deployments at scale, ensuring life-saving products reach patients faster and safer. There is no AI without PI. You will prototype these solutions, demonstrate their value to Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs) and operational leaders, and ensure successful implementation, adoption, and value realization to increase the footprint of Celonis across the life sciences sector.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Discovery & Solutioning: Understand the client's overarching AI strategy and the distinct supply chain challenges across both their MedTech portfolios (e.g., mitigating global raw material shortages, optimizing supply chains, managing inventories, or accelerating quality batch releases). As a Celonis product and life sciences domain expert, translate these complex, multi-tiered logistics requirements into innovative AI solutions that drive measurable impact..

• Pre- and Post-Sales Execution: Actively drive the full customer lifecycle. Lead technical discovery and capability demonstrations during the pre-sales cycle, and remain deeply involved post-sale to guide implementation, ensuring agreed value and adoption thresholds in the supply chain are successfully reached.

• Hackathons & Prototyping: Think out of the box, have a „can-do“ attitude, and don’t shy away from complex, fragmented supply chain networks. Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to rapidly build creative prototypes in customer hackathons, solving critical pain points in planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution.

• Agentic Process Transformation: Support our customers in achieving real ROI out of AI deployments at scale, enabling a fundamental shift from traditional, rule-based automation to the use of autonomous AI agents empowered by our Celonis Process Intelligence Platform (e.g., autonomous inventory rebalancing or intelligent shipment exception handling).

• Proof Projects: End-to-end execution of business-critical Proof-of-Value projects. This includes architecting and delivering secure, scalable LLM/agent systems with RAG, tools, and guardrails, while seamlessly integrating with enterprise ERPs (e.g., SAP), Quality Management Systems (QMS), and strict regulatory frameworks (FDA, EMA, GxP).