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Internship - 2027 Undergraduate and Master's Research & Development Intern
3M
- Hours
- Full time
- Where
- US, Minnesota, Maplewood
- Posted
- Sep 2
Job Description:
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.
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.
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.
What you'd do
- 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.
- Corporate technology: Researchers working in one of our corporate R&D laboratories are concerned with the materials, processes, and/or analytical tools that go into the development of new technologies/methods and the generation of intellectual property, including patents.
- Projects in corporate technology may involve formulation science, synthetic chemistry, process design/control, materials characterization, development of new analytical techniques, materials scale-up, etc.
- Product engineering and development: interns working as product engineers or developers will collaborate with other researchers in our business and corporate research laboratories to address challenges in existing products and/or develop new products.
- Projects in the product engineering and development space may involve formulation science, process design/control, materials characterization, voice of customers, etc.
- Digital science and engineering: interns working in this area will use and/or develop digital science tools to address research challenges in the corporate research and business labs.
- Projects in the digital science and engineering space may involve: optimizing algorithms for computational efficiency, speed, and usability; building capabilities with software tools e.g., Microsoft Azure ML and/or AWS ML, Python; implementing complex data engineering processes to support innovative data science solutions; leveraging key ML or AI solutions toward materials and engineering problems; developing innovative models and simulations of complex chemical and physical processes.
- Starts
- 2026-09-01