Summer 2024 Intern - Tableau Research

Salesforce

Oct 10, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Research & Development
San Francisco

Requirements

Passionate about research. You are a PhD student in good academic standing with at least a couple years of research and publishing experience at high-quality conference and journal venues. In the past, interns have published at venues such as VIS, EuroVis, TVCG, CHI, CSCW, UIST, IUI, DIS, KDD, SIGMOD for example. Having previous internship experience is a plus, but not a requirement.
Aligned with our mission. Your research passion aligns with Tableau’s mission to help people see and understand data. An effective communicator. You have clear written and oral communication skills.
Highly technical. If your project involves prototyping, you have strong technical skills to prototype in a language of your choice, e.g., D3/JavaScript, Python, R, C++, C#, Java, Go. If your project is study-focused, you have strong experience with setting up user studies, collecting, analyzing, and distilling qualitative and quantitative data. If your project is oriented towards statistics, you have strong computational skills and experience in statistical modeling, including data wrangling, model validation, and uncertainty assessment.
A proficient designer. If your project involves prototyping user interfaces, you have a portfolio of UX / interaction / visualization design examples.

Responsibilities

A Tableau Research internship typically consists of a project that is mutually discussed and agreed upon between the intern and their mentor. The goal of the project is to help further the intern’s research career and inspire Tableau & Salesforce with new ideas for future product roadmaps. A research internship also provides excellent opportunities for exploring industry research, gaining insights into product development, and publishing work at top academic conferences.
As a research intern you will work closely with a mentor who is a member of Tableau Research. You will typically meet daily with your mentor to coordinate, plan, and help set expectations. You will be asked to present and provide updates a few times at our team meetings. Research typically involves designing and/or prototyping, along with possible user studies. You will be expected to create a final presentation and write-up of the project. Often, the project evolves into co-authoring an academic paper that could extend beyond the internship period.
Research topics include visual analytics, data visualization, data preparation, human-computer and multi-modal interaction, machine learning, natural language processing/LLMs, as well as presentation and collaboration with data.

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