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Senior AI/Machine Learning Specialist
3M Company · 🇺🇸 US, Minnesota, Maplewood
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 17 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Job Description: Senior AI/Machine Learning 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 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 a Senior AI Software Developer, you will join an internal incubator building a new-to-the-world AI architecture and a new technical category. You will be a hands-on senior individual contributor, technical lead, and software architect who turns Python research implementations into scalable, production-grade systems. Working closely with distinguished researchers and senior engineers/architects, you will shape the Rust architecture, make concurrency and parallelization decisions, and personally build critical components. This role is designed for an architect who codes, tests, profiles, and delivers. Leading the transition of experimental Python research code into reliable, maintainable, and high-performance Rust components. • Architecting and implementing scalable runtime components for real-time inference, near-real-time reasoning, large offline simulations, cloud services, on-premises deployments, and embedded or edge environments. • Evaluating and driving decisions for concurrency, parallel execution, memory management, inter-process communication, and distributed processing. • Working directly with researchers on mathematical representations, activation dynamics, mapping, retrieval, learning mechanisms, and causal structures within clearly defined system components. • Establishing behavioral-equivalence, determinism, reproducibility, regression, simulation, performance, and reliability testing between research and production implementations. • Profiling CPU, memory, latency, throughput, and scaling behavior; identifying bottlenecks and implementing measurable improvements. • Defining stable interfaces in a modular, interface-driven architecture that protects proprietary intellectual property while enabling teams to build, test, and optimize clearly defined subsystems. • Building observability, CI/CD, containerization, deployment, and operational capabilities for Cloud and on-premises environments. • Mentoring early-career developers and modeling low-ego, hands-on technical leadership across research and engineering teams. • Contributing to inventions, patents, and managed publication or conference activities consistent with program requirements. Your Skills and Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications: • Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, applied mathematics, physics, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, or a related field (completed and verified prior to start) OR • High School Diploma/GED (completed and verified prior to start) AND five years of experience building, scaling, or productionizing complex software, research systems, simulation platforms, compilers, high-performance computing applications, or algorithm-intensive technology. AND • Ten (10) years of professional software-development experience building production systems. • Five (5) years of experience productionizing research, scientific, simulation, compiler, high-performance computing, or algorithm-intensive software. Additional qualifications that could help you su