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About the Role

As an enterprise search tech lead, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by leading the design, development, and optimization of enterprise search solutions built on AWS OpenSearch to improve relevance, scalability, and AI-readiness across digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Leading design, development, and optimization of enterprise search solutions built on AWS OpenSearch to improve relevance, scalability, and AI-readiness across digital platforms.
• Owning technical decisions across the full search stack: ingestion pipelines (Spring Boot/Batch, Kafka), search APIs, index design, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Driving platform evolution toward hybrid retrieval (lexical + semantic/vector search) to support RAG, LLM grounding, and agentic AI use cases.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation including C4 architecture models, system design diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Mentoring and leading developers on the search engineering team, conducting code reviews, and raising engineering standards.
• Partnering with the domain architect on long-term strategy while independently executing complex platform changes.
• Building and maintaining Airflow-orchestrated ingestion workflows, monitoring/alerting systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Supporting cross-functional teams by troubleshooting search issues, monitoring system health, and partnering with consuming applications (product navigator, digital commerce, AI assistants).
• Willingness to be on-call in the event of critical issues requiring timely resolution.
• Corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.
• All employees are expected to contribute to a strong Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture by following safety policies, identifying hazards, and engaging in continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, or Technology field (completed and verified prior to start).
• Five (5) years of search-related development experience in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• Seven (7) years of overall software engineering experience in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
• All US-based 3M full time employees will need to sign an employee agreement as a condition of employment with 3M.
• Employees that are Job Grade 7 or equivalent and above may also have obligations to not compete against 3M or solicit its employees or customers, both during their employment, and for a period after they leave 3M.
• Your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

Skills

• Experience with AWS OpenSearch/Elasticsearch: index design, analyzers/tokenizers, synonyms, aggregations, relevance tuning, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and multi-module Maven projects.
• Experience with Kafka/MSK messaging — producers, consumers, and stream processing.
• Experience with AWS services (S3, IAM, Lambda, MSK, ECS, CloudWatch, EFS).
• Strong understanding of search fundamentals (BM25, relevance tuning, autocomplete, vector search).
• Experience with embeddings, vector databases, or RAG pipelines for LLM applications.
• Experience building and operating Airflow DAGs for data pipeline orchestration.
• Experience modernizing legacy search platforms or migrating between search engine versions.
• Familiarity with search analytics, A/B testing for ranking, and relevance measurement (NDCG, MRR)
• Demonstrated ability to document complex systems — C4 model, architecture decision records, or equivalent.

Location

• Maplewood, MN
• Austin, Texas

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Five (5) years of search-related development experience
• Seven (7) years of overall software engineering experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, or Technology field

Salary/Compensations

• $145,676 - $178,049

Benefits

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

About the Company

• With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers.
• At 3M we apply science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily as our employees connect with customers all around the world.
• Learn more about 3M's creative solutions to global challenges at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M or @3MNews.

Equal Opportunity

• 3M does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.