Senior Product Engineer - Expanded Beam Optics
Job Description
**Job Description:**
**Senior Product Engineer**
**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 environments to a 3M career.**
**The Impact You’ll Make in this Role**
As a Product Engineer in 3M’s Interconnect Business, you will have the opportunity to leverage your curiosity and collaborate with a group of innovative professionals worldwide. You will play a pivotal role in driving growth and making a significant impact through customer collaboration, new application development, and product commercialization. Here, you will make an impact by:
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Optimizing interconnect products by driving Product and Process Understanding (PPU) efforts, leading strategic projects like raw material substitution, quality improvement, or cost reduction projects
* Leading/supporting change management process and validating product performance for changes in design, process or raw materials through test plan generation and execution using laboratory equipment.
* Ensuring product performance and stability of existing products by leading product improvement projects through design modifications, as needed
* Driving scale\-up activities as a core team member for new product introductions
* Maintaining product standards and specifications, owning claims substantiation process
* Collaborating with cross functional teams (product development, application engineering, business, manufacturing and quality teams), global laboratories and manufacturing sites
* Utilizing strong communication skills to inspire, influence, motivate and teach other team members
**Your Skills and Expertise**
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)
* Four (4\) years of combined product, materials, and/or process engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
* Master's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or related science discipline from an accredited institution
* Experience working in Quality and/or Manufacturing/Production and/or Product Development and/ or Engineering in a private, public, government or military environment supporting connectors and/or optical connectors
* Experience with scaling up technology and/or products to large scale manufacturing, especially injection molding
* Hands\-on problem\-solving mind set using laboratory equipment
* Strong ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that critical deadlines are met without compromising quality.
* Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiments (DOE), and Statistical Analysis
**Location: Austin, TX or Maplewood, MN**
* **Work location:** This role follows an on\-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week in office.
**Travel: May include up to 10% domestic**
**Relocation Assistance: Not 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.
**Chat with Max**
For assistance with searching through our current job openings or for more information about all things 3M, visit Max, our virtual recruiting assistant on 3M.com/careers.
Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $124,127 \- $151,710, 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 Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en\_US/careers\-us/working\-at\-3m/benefits/.
Good Faith Posting Date Range 04/28/2026 To 05/28
**Senior Product Engineer**
**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 environments to a 3M career.**
**The Impact You’ll Make in this Role**
As a Product Engineer in 3M’s Interconnect Business, you will have the opportunity to leverage your curiosity and collaborate with a group of innovative professionals worldwide. You will play a pivotal role in driving growth and making a significant impact through customer collaboration, new application development, and product commercialization. Here, you will make an impact by:
**Key Responsibilities:**
* Optimizing interconnect products by driving Product and Process Understanding (PPU) efforts, leading strategic projects like raw material substitution, quality improvement, or cost reduction projects
* Leading/supporting change management process and validating product performance for changes in design, process or raw materials through test plan generation and execution using laboratory equipment.
* Ensuring product performance and stability of existing products by leading product improvement projects through design modifications, as needed
* Driving scale\-up activities as a core team member for new product introductions
* Maintaining product standards and specifications, owning claims substantiation process
* Collaborating with cross functional teams (product development, application engineering, business, manufacturing and quality teams), global laboratories and manufacturing sites
* Utilizing strong communication skills to inspire, influence, motivate and teach other team members
**Your Skills and Expertise**
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)
* Four (4\) years of combined product, materials, and/or process engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment
Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:
* Master's degree or higher in mechanical engineering or related science discipline from an accredited institution
* Experience working in Quality and/or Manufacturing/Production and/or Product Development and/ or Engineering in a private, public, government or military environment supporting connectors and/or optical connectors
* Experience with scaling up technology and/or products to large scale manufacturing, especially injection molding
* Hands\-on problem\-solving mind set using laboratory equipment
* Strong ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring that critical deadlines are met without compromising quality.
* Experience with Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiments (DOE), and Statistical Analysis
**Location: Austin, TX or Maplewood, MN**
* **Work location:** This role follows an on\-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week in office.
**Travel: May include up to 10% domestic**
**Relocation Assistance: Not 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.
**Chat with Max**
For assistance with searching through our current job openings or for more information about all things 3M, visit Max, our virtual recruiting assistant on 3M.com/careers.
Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $124,127 \- $151,710, 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 Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: https://www.3m.com/3M/en\_US/careers\-us/working\-at\-3m/benefits/.
Good Faith Posting Date Range 04/28/2026 To 05/28
Posted: 2026-04-29