AI Data Science Research Specialist

Job Description

AI Data Science Research Specialist

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an AI Data Science Research Specialist in 3M’s Corporate Research Laboratory, you will work on a team developing novel learning system frameworks.  You will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.   We’re looking for a data researcher familiar working with statistics and experience creating data structures on neural networks who can work closely with other research scientists to implement experimental systems, simulation infrastructure, and architecture modifications.  This role will create research code creating real time data management methods including parallelization.  This is a great fit for someone who enjoys solving new data handling problems, creating new fundamental methods, iterative design, and working closely with other technical thinkers.

Here, you will make an impact by:

Write modular, testable code to implement real time data management methods, statistics, or architectural mechanisms.

Work from whiteboards, specs, and conversations—not product docs.

Extend an evolving codebase that supports structured learning experiments.

Help organize internal data structure for system components (e.g., experimental runners, memory modules, parameter schedulers).

Write structured logging and diagnostic tools to support hypothesis-driven debugging.

Collaborate with other researchers who define the “what”; your job is to create the “how.”

Your Skills and Expertise: 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited university.

Five (5) years of experience in fundamental data science research and implementation in academic, private, public, government, or military environment.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

Strong fluency in coding, including object-oriented programming and functional idioms.

Experience working in scientific, data-intensive, or ML-related environments.

Comprehensive understanding of deep learning internals (embeddings, attention, optimization) and the ability to think critically about fundamental data structures and management.

Experience implementing statistics in a research environment including detection theory, frequentist and Bayesian methods, and estimation theory.

Working knowledge of neuro-symbolic AI systems.

Comfortable building and modifying systems from scratch.

Interest in systems that involve simulation, learning, or recursive dynamics.

Familiarity with fundamental concepts of data parallelization and real time management in neural networks.

Experience with visualization methods in structured probabilistic models.

Able to work on a team where the problem is evolving, and code is shared.

Curious, fast learner, solid communicator.

Strong fluency in Python.

Work location: Remote in the United States

Travel: up to 20% domestic travel

Relocation Assistance: May be authorized for relocation to Maplewood, MN

Supporting Your Well-being 

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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