Description
We are seeking a Research Intern to join Tableau Research for a 12-week internship. As a Research Intern, you will work on a project you and your mentor agree on together, designed to advance your research career and bring new ideas to future product roadmaps.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with a mentor on the Tableau Research team, with frequent check-ins, and collaborate with researchers, engineers, designers, and product partners.
- Explore research topics including visual analytics, conversational analytics, semantics and data preparation, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and AI-powered analytical tools.
- Gain hands-on experience with industry research and product development, with the opportunity to co-author an academic paper that may continue beyond the internship.
- Scope a research question with your mentor that is ambitious and achievable within 12 weeks, then move quickly from idea to prototype.
- Design and build research prototypes, and run user studies or other evaluations to test your ideas.
- Share work in progress, present research updates at team meetings, and incorporate feedback along the way.
- Deliver a final presentation and written summary of your project, with the goal of turning it into a publishable paper.
Requirements:
- Currently enrolled in a PhD program and in good academic standing, with at least two years of research experience and a record of publishing at respected conferences or journals in areas such as data visualization, human-computer interaction, databases, or machine learning.
- Build functional research prototypes quickly in a programming language or framework of your choice.
- Scope problems well, prioritize the most important questions, and deliver meaningful results within a fixed timeline.
- Communicate clearly in writing and in person, work well with people from different backgrounds, and seek out feedback early and often.
Benefits:
- Job shadowing, mentorship programs, talent development courses, and much more.