Architect - Agentic AI

Job Description: Architect - Agentic AI 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 experience to a 3M career. The Impact You’ll Make in this Role We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Agentic AI Architect to set the architecture, standards, and operating model for enterprise agent systems that plan, reason, and act via secure interfaces. You will lead a cross-functional team, define reference designs for multi-agent workflows, memory, orchestration, and human oversight, and mentor teams on modern engineering. You will accelerate automation and decision support by delivering scalable, reliable, and compliant agent services integrated with core platforms. Set evaluation and safety standards, partner with risk, security and compliance to ensure security, reliability & performance of Agentic solutions. Key Responsibilities: Own the reference architecture and roadmap for agentic AI [... source excerpt omitted ...] c use cases; mentor engineers and data scientists; and communicate architecture decisions, risks, and value realization to executive stakeholders. Lead the design and delivery of production grade agentic solutions that safely execute actions in enterprise systems (e.g., SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake etc), with CI/CD, automated testing, rollback, and human-in-the-loop controls. Establish and enforce governance, safety, and compliance controls—including prompt injection/ jailbreak defenses, policy guardrails, data classification/residency, and PHI/PII handling—in partnership with Security, Legal, and Risk. Implement evaluation, observability and operations at scale: task-based evals, [... source excerpt omitted ...] achieve defined SLAs for reliability, latency, and cost. Your Skills and Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications: Master’s in computer science, applied mathematics, or engineering field or a science field (completed and verified prior to star) Five (5) years of experience in AI engineering, with at least Two (2) years in a Generative AI, AI driven automation or RPA in a private, public, government or military environment. Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: Advanced proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices + agent frameworks s