Job Description:
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.
3M is seeking a talented and experienced AI Product Engineering Managerto join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible forengineering AI products, leveraging your expertise in cloud platforms, LLMs and DevOps tools. The ideal candidate will possess strong collaboration, communication, leadership, and technical skills to drive the success of our projects.
In this roleyou will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:
Set the technical product vision and multi-year roadmap for 3M’s enterprise AI portfolio—translate business outcomes into shippable milestones, reference architectures, and cloud-first adoption paths.
Design and build end-to-end AI products that scale—stitch together LLMs, serverless runtimes, feature stores, vector databases, and model registries to deliver high experience products.
Own the full product engineering lifecycle—from user-story intake and rapid prototyping to hardened MLOps/LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD, automated testing, lineage, drift alerts, and one-click rollback.
Shape intuitive, trust-building AI experiences—partner with UX researchers and designers to turn complex model outputs into clear, actionable interfaces that boost user confidence and adoption.
Embed “secure-by-design” guardrails—codify policies for data privacy, model governance, cost attribution, and reliability SLAs.
Lead cross-functional squads and strategic vendors—mentor engineers, tame scope creep, and serve as the escalation point for production incidents and post-mortems.
Drive relentless product-market fit—run A/B experiments, analyze usage telemetry, iterate on UX, and kill features that don’t move the KPI needle.
Champion a culture of continuous innovation—evaluate emerging AI tooling, run proof-of-value sprints, and productionize winners.
In this role, you will play a crucial part in driving the success of our Generative AI projects, leveraging your expertise and leadership skills to deliver innovative solutions and contribute to the advancement of AI technology.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage the AI product engineering life cycle end-to-end – from concept and POC funding through GA, depreciation, and graceful sunset, ensuring documentation and compliance stay current.
Scout emerging AI capabilities for competitive edge – track LLM, multimodal, and agent-framework advances; surface vetted opportunities to the roadmap without dictating platform choices.
Drive cross-functional delivery – align data scientists, UX, and platform engineering to hit release dates without scope creep.
Integrate everything, break nothing – orchestrate cross-cloud APIs, event buses, and automation frameworks so data scientists ship features without waiting on ops tickets.
To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) in Computer Science or Engineering.
Five (5) years of full-stack development experience—crafting modern front-ends (e.g., React/Angular) and cloud-native back-ends (Python/Node/Java), and integrating them with CI/CD pipelines.
Two (2) years of experience in building Gen AI powered products.
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
Work location:
Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN.
Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international
Relocation: May be authorized
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
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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Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $188,251 - $230,084, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Reti3m