Scientist Jobs in Minnesota
Scientist jobs in Minnesota are concentrated in the Twin Cities metro, Rochester, and Duluth, where employers like 3M, Mayo Clinic, and Cargill have long maintained research and development operations across life sciences, materials science, and food science. Demand is strongest for analytical chemists, environmental scientists, and biomedical researchers, with openings at every level from research associate to principal scientist. Minnesota's deep medical device and agricultural biotechnology sectors keep hiring consistent even outside peak cycles. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Top employerGeneral Mills
Top cityMinneapolis, MN
Cities hiring19
Work type50% On-site
Top industryHealthcare
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Sr. Data Scientist - Network Modeling & Optimization
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Best Buy
Sr. Data Scientist - Network Modeling & Optimization
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Sr. Scientist, Toxicology (Board Certified) - Bracco Medical Technologies
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Bracco Medical Technologies
Sr. Scientist, Toxicology (Board Certified) - Bracco Medical Technologies
Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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Staff Development Engineer IV - Engineering Data Scientist and Digital Twin Specialist
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Daikin Applied
Staff Development Engineer IV - Engineering Data Scientist and Digital Twin Specialist
Plymouth, Minnesota
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Clinical Variant Scientist - DLMP
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Mayo Clinic
Clinical Variant Scientist - DLMP
Rochester, Minnesota
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Data Scientist
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Polaris Industries
Data Scientist
Plymouth, Minnesota
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Sr. Data Scientist - Network Modeling & Optimization
Best Buy·Minneapolis, Minnesota
Job functions:
$106k - $190k/yr
Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering
10,000+ employees
Job Description
The Sr. Data Scientist – Network Modeling & Optimization will be a senior technical contributor responsible for leading complex analytical and modeling projects and supported by a small dedicated team of Data Scientists. This role’s primary responsibility will be updating, running and improving existing Supply Chain network models to support business planning and one-off decisions both tactical and strategic. The role will be hands-on. The role will also assist and advise in the development of new models and readiness for production.
The Network Modeling & Optimization team within Supply Chain Analytics develops analytical capabilities that help Best Buy evaluate its supply chain network across cost, capacity, customer service, product flow, inventory placement, and operational feasibility.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work up to three days/week on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on days not expected in the office. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
The Network Modeling & Optimization team within Supply Chain Analytics develops analytical capabilities that help Best Buy evaluate its supply chain network across cost, capacity, customer service, product flow, inventory placement, and operational feasibility.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work up to three days/week on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on days not expected in the office. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain analytical inputs and optimization models representing facilities, transportation lanes, demand, product flows, costs, capacities, service requirements, and business rules.
- Evaluate strategic and tactical scenarios involving facility location, network assignments, capacity, sourcing, inventory placement, transportation, and product flow.
- Validate model behavior, diagnose infeasibilities and data-quality issues, and clearly communicate assumptions, limitations, tradeoffs, and recommendations to business and technical stakeholders
- Translate ambiguous supply chain questions into structured analytical problems by defining objectives, available decisions, constraints, assumptions, data requirements, and expected outputs.
- Ability to translate complex physical processes into simplified functions that preserve the essential real-world characteristics but simple enough to become inputs for mathematical models.
- Support complex network modeling and optimization projects from business-problem definition through model development, validation, interpretation, and recommendation.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Data Scientists and analysts while establishing reusable modeling practices, documentation standards, and quality controls.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Analytics, or a related quantitative field—or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of relevant experience in data science, operations research, optimization, supply chain analytics, forecasting, simulation, or a related analytical field.
- 4+ years of leading complex analytical projects and translate ambiguous business questions into structured modeling approaches.
- 4+ years hands-on experience using data analytics (e.g., SQL, Python, R), and machine learning and/or optimization tools (i.e., Python, R, Gurobi, Vertex AI).
- Strong knowledge of optimization, operations research, statistical modeling, forecasting, simulation, machine learning, or another advanced analytical discipline.
- Ability to explain technical concepts, model results, and business recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Supply Chain Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience with supply chain network design, transportation, distribution, fulfillment, inventory, logistics, or capacity planning.
- Experience developing optimization models using methods such as linear programming, mixed-integer programming, network flow, facility location, or assignment modeling.
- Experience defining model inputs, decision variables, constraints, objective functions, scenarios, and outputs—and diagnosing model infeasibilities.
- Familiarity with AIMMS or comparable optimization platforms, libraries, or solvers. Direct AIMMS experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring Data Scientists or analysts, and communicating recommendations to business leaders.
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Great employee discount
- Financial savings and retirement resources
- Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.
Position Type: Full time
Best Buy
Sr. Data Scientist - Network Modeling & Optimization
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Added 1d ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
$106k - $190k/yr
Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering
Job Description
The Sr. Data Scientist – Network Modeling & Optimization will be a senior technical contributor responsible for leading complex analytical and modeling projects and supported by a small dedicated team of Data Scientists. This role’s primary responsibility will be updating, running and improving existing Supply Chain network models to support business planning and one-off decisions both tactical and strategic. The role will be hands-on. The role will also assist and advise in the development of new models and readiness for production.
The Network Modeling & Optimization team within Supply Chain Analytics develops analytical capabilities that help Best Buy evaluate its supply chain network across cost, capacity, customer service, product flow, inventory placement, and operational feasibility.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work up to three days/week on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on days not expected in the office. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
The Network Modeling & Optimization team within Supply Chain Analytics develops analytical capabilities that help Best Buy evaluate its supply chain network across cost, capacity, customer service, product flow, inventory placement, and operational feasibility.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work up to three days/week on site at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on days not expected in the office. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain analytical inputs and optimization models representing facilities, transportation lanes, demand, product flows, costs, capacities, service requirements, and business rules.
- Evaluate strategic and tactical scenarios involving facility location, network assignments, capacity, sourcing, inventory placement, transportation, and product flow.
- Validate model behavior, diagnose infeasibilities and data-quality issues, and clearly communicate assumptions, limitations, tradeoffs, and recommendations to business and technical stakeholders
- Translate ambiguous supply chain questions into structured analytical problems by defining objectives, available decisions, constraints, assumptions, data requirements, and expected outputs.
- Ability to translate complex physical processes into simplified functions that preserve the essential real-world characteristics but simple enough to become inputs for mathematical models.
- Support complex network modeling and optimization projects from business-problem definition through model development, validation, interpretation, and recommendation.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to Data Scientists and analysts while establishing reusable modeling practices, documentation standards, and quality controls.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Analytics, or a related quantitative field—or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of relevant experience in data science, operations research, optimization, supply chain analytics, forecasting, simulation, or a related analytical field.
- 4+ years of leading complex analytical projects and translate ambiguous business questions into structured modeling approaches.
- 4+ years hands-on experience using data analytics (e.g., SQL, Python, R), and machine learning and/or optimization tools (i.e., Python, R, Gurobi, Vertex AI).
- Strong knowledge of optimization, operations research, statistical modeling, forecasting, simulation, machine learning, or another advanced analytical discipline.
- Ability to explain technical concepts, model results, and business recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Supply Chain Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience with supply chain network design, transportation, distribution, fulfillment, inventory, logistics, or capacity planning.
- Experience developing optimization models using methods such as linear programming, mixed-integer programming, network flow, facility location, or assignment modeling.
- Experience defining model inputs, decision variables, constraints, objective functions, scenarios, and outputs—and diagnosing model infeasibilities.
- Familiarity with AIMMS or comparable optimization platforms, libraries, or solvers. Direct AIMMS experience is preferred but not required.
- Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring Data Scientists or analysts, and communicating recommendations to business leaders.
What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Great employee discount
- Financial savings and retirement resources
- Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.
Position Type: Full time
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A snapshot from current Minnesota openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Technology & Software
What Minnesota Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in scientist jobs across Minnesota.
- Bachelor's degree in chemistry, biology, environmental science, or a closely related field
- Experience with laboratory instrumentation, data analysis, or field sampling protocols
- Familiarity with Good Laboratory Practices and relevant regulatory compliance standards
- Proficiency in statistical software or scientific data management platforms
- Strong written communication skills for preparing technical reports and research documentation
- Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams in research, quality, or product development settings
Scientist Jobs in Minnesota: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a scientist in Minnesota?
Most scientist roles in Minnesota require at minimum a bachelor's degree in a natural or applied science, with many research and industry positions preferring a master's or doctorate. No single state license governs all scientist roles, but environmental scientists working in regulatory contexts may need registration with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency or certification through relevant professional bodies. Employers in life sciences and food science typically expect demonstrated laboratory experience alongside academic credentials.
Which companies hire scientists in Minnesota?
Companies currently hiring scientists in Minnesota include General Mills, Target, and Quest Diagnostics, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Minnesota's concentration of medical device manufacturers, agricultural biotechnology firms, and food processing companies means ongoing demand for scientists across multiple specialties throughout the year.
Which Minnesota cities have the most scientist jobs?
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Plymouth account for the largest share of scientist openings in Minnesota. The Twin Cities anchor demand through their dense cluster of Fortune 500 headquarters, university research institutions, and medical device companies, while Rochester draws consistent openings from Mayo Clinic's expansive research enterprise, and Duluth sees activity tied to environmental and natural resource science along the Lake Superior corridor.
Are there remote scientist jobs in Minnesota?
Yes, but they're rare. About 50% of scientist openings tied to Minnesota are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how laboratory-dependent most scientist roles are by nature. The positions most likely to offer remote or hybrid arrangements are those focused on data analysis, regulatory affairs, scientific writing, or modeling rather than hands-on bench or field work.
How can I get hired as a scientist in Minnesota with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a research associate or laboratory technician role, which large Minnesota employers in life sciences and food science regularly use to bring in candidates fresh from a bachelor's program. 3M, Cargill, and Mayo Clinic each run structured early-career programs and internship pipelines that convert to full-time roles. Pursuing relevant certifications in laboratory safety or environmental sampling, or completing a research thesis project, gives candidates a measurable edge when competing for those entry positions.
Where can I find and apply to scientist jobs in Minnesota?
You can find and apply to scientist jobs in Minnesota on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings to find roles that match your specialty and experience level, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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