Research Internship
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Job Description
About Tableau Research
Tableau Research is an industrial research team dedicated to furthering Tableau’s mission of helping people see and understand data. They actively work to develop new and innovative product and technology directions, generating ideas that influence and shape Tableau’s offerings to customers.
Beyond their internal work, Tableau Research actively engages with the academic community, regularly publishing research and participating in top-tier conferences and journals. Their vision is to be a world-class industry research lab, fostering innovation through partnerships with internal teams and academia, acting as thought leaders, and advancing the state-of-the-art in data and analytics.
Job Description: Research Internship
Responsibilities:
• Project Development: Collaborate with a mentor to define and execute a research project aligned with the intern’s interests and Tableau’s future product roadmap.
• Research Exploration: Explore industry research, gain insights into product development, and potentially publish work at top academic conferences.
• Mentorship and Collaboration: Work closely with a mentor from Tableau Research, meeting daily to plan, coordinate, and receive guidance. Present project updates at team meetings.
• Research Execution: Design and/or prototype solutions, conduct user studies, collect and analyze data, and create a final presentation and write-up of the project.
• Potential for Publication: Contribute to the co-authoring of an academic paper, potentially extending beyond the internship period.
Research Topics:
• Visual analytics
• Conversational analytics
• Semantics & data preparation
• Human-computer & multi-modal interaction
• Machine learning
• AI/LLMs
Qualifications:
• Alignment with Mission: Passion for research that aligns with Tableau’s mission to help people see and understand data.
• Academic Background: PhD student in good academic standing with at least 2 years of research and publishing experience at high-quality conferences and journals (e.g., VIS, EuroVis, IUI, CHI, CSCW, UIST, IUI, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS).
• Technical Skills:
• Prototyping: Proficiency in languages like D3/JavaScript, Python, R, C++, C#, Java, Go if the project involves prototyping.
• User Studies: Strong experience with designing and conducting user studies, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data.
• Statistics: Strong computational skills and experience in statistical modeling, including data wrangling, model validation, and uncertainty assessment.
• UX/UI: Portfolio of UX/interaction/visualization design examples if the project involves prototyping user interfaces.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Executive Skills: Diligent, takes personal responsibility, manages time effectively, balances independent work with meeting deadlines, prioritizes tasks efficiently, delivers high-quality results on time.
Previous internship experience is a plus but not required.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
• Salesforce will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
