Application Engineer
3M — Bengaluru, Karnataka
₹3–7 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite
HireSetu listing reference 6f2ce6 · employer requisition R01172101 — confirm requirements below, then apply on the employer site.
Quick answer: A customer-facing technical role in 3M's graphics films business, and much of the week happens at customer sites around India. A polymer, chemistry or materials background is what gets you considered.
From 3M's job posting
Job Description
3M Commercial Solutions segment, is a part of Commercial Branding and Transportation Division, delivers comprehensive products and solutions, so you can deliver a consistent brand identity across all verticals from Banking, Rail, fleet, facilities and all-important touch points creating a memorable brand experience.
At 3M, we are experts in helping you realize the power and potential of your brand. We deliver total graphic solutions that help to provide high impact message consistency while delivering expected reliability and durability. Based on 3M’s tradition of innovation and technological know-how, 3M Graphics Markets offers flexible, creative and technologically advanced branding solutions for various touch points proving premium visibility and experience for brand owners. With a wide range of colored and printable film solutions, 3M Graphics market helps brand owners create a complete compelling value story for their brand with sustainability, reliability and fulfilling brand promise.
3M Commercial Solutions segment offers training and services to help customers and channel partners to use and convert 3M products effectively. The solutions provided by the channel partners are backed by 3M by way of a warranty to the end customer. 3M also connects with end users and influencers to help them select the correct product solutions that meet their requirements most effectively. An application engineer helps the customer and the sales team to recommend an appropriate product as per the customer expectation. For an application engineer to be effective he must be able to carry out the below-mentioned responsibilities effectively.
Responsibilities
o Understand in depth 3M’s offering and use that knowledge to help achieve objectives for the division.
o Meeting brand owners, channel partners, and end customers, guiding them with the right product and generating specifications to help them procure the appropriate material
o Lead technical engagement with key customers and channel partners.
o Understand market trends, collaborate with internal team to work on new product ideas, technology and product development.
o Travel domestically.
o Work at customer locations and sites.
o Have positive attitude and willingness to learn. Be a team player and work in collaboration with 3M employees and channel partners.
Qualifications
A graduate or postgraduate preferably in Polymer science / Chemistry / Materials Science background with below mentioned qualities:
o Strong verbal and written communication skills.
o Have knowledge on self-adhesive films, polymer chemistry, formulations.
o Product development and lab testing skills, should be conversant with new product commercialization process.
o Strong planning and organization skills.
o Ability to understand technical subject matter or willingness to learn.
o Proficient with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and other related software programs.
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HireSetu's note
A field role built around specifications
The title travels badly. In software and IT, an application engineer sits with a customer's stack and integration issues. At 3M it means printed and coloured films, substrates, adhesives and how they behave on a vehicle, a rail coach, a bank branch or a fleet. You meet brand owners, channel partners and end customers, recommend a film, then write the specification that lets them order the right material.
Bengaluru is a base, not a desk. The listing asks for domestic travel and work at customer locations, so ask how much of the month is overnight travel and whether trips cluster in one region. Depot and site work means dust, deadlines and print shops, not meeting rooms.
Leading technical engagement with channel partners is a real duty here. Those partners apply the films, so your recommendation either survives a real installation or it doesn't.
The degree does the filtering
Polymer science, chemistry or materials science, with knowledge of self-adhesive films, polymer chemistry and formulations. Treat that as the filter. A mechanical, electronics or computer science degree won't clear it, however strong the rest of the CV looks.
Lab testing and new product commercialisation sit alongside the customer-facing work, so the role straddles the bench and the field. From a formulation or QA lab, the new part is the front end: presentations, specifications, channel partners, market trends fed back to the product team. Bring something that shows you can hold that conversation.
PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook are named in the qualifications, which tells you how much of this job is specs, decks and reports. The scope is wide, so ask which verticals you'd cover: rail, fleet, banking and facilities all run on different surfaces and different buying cycles.
Drafted with AI from 3M's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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