Internship - 2027 Undergraduate and Master's Research & Development Intern

The role of Undergraduate and Master's Research & Development Intern is intended to start in Summer 2027.

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.

An internship is a temporary position within 3M. Interns typically work a full-time schedule throughout a 10-12 week assignment. This position is limited to working 899 hours per service credit year. 3M provides eligible interns with a housing and transportation stipend in accordance with current policy.

As a Research & Development Intern, you 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:

• Leveraging expertise to support the development of new technologies, providing growth opportunities, in addition to supporting existing 3M products, businesses, and operations.

• Building your technical, communication, and leadership skills.

• Collaborating with other R&D functions across 3M that can help advance projects, including researchers from other groups, analytical chemists, process engineers, etc.

• Collaborating with senior researchers on an assigned product/technology development or an application/product engineering project.

• Leading and directing assigned projects towards advanced technical solutions.

• Documenting detailed experimental records in 3M electronic laboratory notebooks that can be used for invention submissions and potentially patent applications.

• Analyzing, interpreting, and communicating experimental results.

R&D internships are available for both digital science and laboratory-based roles in the following areas:

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in science or engineering from an accredited institution.

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

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in fields such as Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Software Engineering, Chemistry, Polymer Science, Biomolecular Engineering, or related disciplines from an accredited institution.

• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, data science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, statistics, software engineering, and/or applied mathematics.

• Strong scientific and technical acumen, with demonstrated interest and ability to make connections between science/technology and real-world concerns.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Ability to deal with the ambiguity of early-stage scouting and evaluation of new opportunities, and the flexibility to change direction as additional information becomes available.

• Leadership and networking skills.

• Self-motivated and self-directed.

• Excellent communication skills (oral, written, and presentation).

• Completed a minimum of Freshman Year (2 semesters) by the start of the internship.

• 6-12 months of practical laboratory experience in the synthesis of polymers and small molecules, chemical/polymer processing, advanced analytical and materials characterization, vapor coating, nanotechnology, development of sensors, and optical materials.

• Hands-on experience in areas such as additive manufacturing, robotics, mechanical design, and/or hard goods.

• Experience with Microsoft Azure ML and/or AWS ML.

• Fluent in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, MATLAB, C, C++, and/or R).

• Ability to apply object-oriented design and/or design patterns to software development.

• Fluent in understanding, manipulating, cleansing, and visualizing complex data.

• Experience working with complex, distributed Big Data workflows.

• Previous relevant intern experience or co-op with a company or university.

• Use of designed experiments and statistical analysis of experimental results.

• Demonstrated scientific excellence as evidenced by publications and presentations.

Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.

U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum.

To comply with these laws, 3M must help assess candidates' U.S. person status.

The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

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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