AI Staff Scientist

Role Description

As an AI Staff Scientist in 3M’s Corporate R&D organization, you will work on a small, deeply technical team developing foundational methods for always-on learning systems that reason, experiment, and adapt in complex, non-stationary environments. This role exists because learning systems that do not actively preserve identifiability, causal validity, and epistemic calibration fail in principle—not merely in performance.

You will collaborate closely with researchers across statistics, cognitive science, and machine learning to design systems in which experimentation, inference, and uncertainty are first-class components of the learning process itself.

Here you will make an impact by:

• Developing computational symbolic representation systems for general use
• Designing, implementing and maintaining research code for a language interface for computational symbolic representation systems
• Working from whiteboards, research discussions, and evolving specifications – not fixed product requirements or static datasets
• Collaborating with interdisciplinary researchers to stress-test experimental learning mechanisms under realistic, adversarial conditions

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Informatics, Cognitive Science, or a related field (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Five (5) years Experience with Artificial Intelligence
• Experience working in startup environments
• Work location: Remote in the United States
• Travel: up to 20% domestic travel
• Relocation Assistance: not authorized
• Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, Dental & Vision
• Health Savings Accounts
• Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Disability Benefits
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Benefits
• Paid Absences
• Retirement Benefits