Solutions Architect

Description

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

Your Skills and Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Optical/Photonics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or other technical field (completed and verified prior to start)

• Five (5) years of experience working with hyperscale datacenter customers, AI architectures, optical interconnect, or co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies in a private, public, government or military environment

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical/Photonics Engineering, or a related technical field from an accredited institution

• Direct experience engaging with XPU, compute, or switch vendors on system architecture and optical interconnect integration for AI/ML infrastructure

• Skills include strong technical communication, customer focused, self-starting, relationship building, innovation, collaboration

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

• Leading technical engagement with hyperscale datacenter customers and compute/networking silicon vendors, establishing new contacts and building lasting relationships.

• Implementing trusted, side-by-side technical partnerships, translating their roadmaps and architecture requirements into actionable input for 3M product and technology teams.

• Determining how emerging AI datacenter trends should shape the technology roadmap for 3M’s EBO program and communicating these insights to the broader datacenter team.

• Supporting sales, applications engineering, and product development teams by providing deep technical context on customer architectures, use cases, and integration requirements.

• Building conceptual demos and supporting technical marketing initiatives that showcase 3M EBO capabilities to hyperscale and datacenter audiences.