Tableau Research (research.tableau.com) is an industrial research team focused on Tableau’s mission of helping people see and understand data. As part of Tableau’s Office of the CTO (OCTO), we work to be a source of new and inspiring product and technology directions for Tableau each year, generating ideas that influence, drive, or significantly change what Tableau delivers to customers. As a research lab, we aim to both provide value to Tableau and a foundation for research scientists to do world-class research.

We are looking for early-career research scientists, although prior experience at an industry research lab or a startup is definitely a plus! An ideal candidate has deep technical experience in a domain relevant to Tableau such as 1) applied ML/AI to support visual analytics and human-in-the-loop systems, 2) NLP for search and content retrieval as well as for question and answering systems, 3) data-driven collaboration and presentation, or 4) HCI techniques for multimodal interaction to support data exploration.

Primary responsibilities

• Design and manage a portfolio of research projects and activities that are relevant to Tableau’s mission. The projects include exploring new ways to help people collect, explore, interact with, analyze, visualize, and derive actionable insights from data
• Validate and communicate research innovation to the rest of Tableau via prototypes, peer-reviewed publications, whitepapers, and presentations
  Work collaboratively with other research scientists, developers, and product managers to drive research results to product impact
• Understand Tableau products, customers, and business goals to further innovation and to help create new products and services
• Participate in external research and technical communities to hone your expertise, provide thought leadership and build relationships

Qualifications

• PhD, or the equivalent, in a technical domain relevant to Tableau Research
  Fluent with the relevant technical skills necessary to implement your research ideas
• Experience working as a research partner to industry
• Experience pitching research ideas and/or leading a group of people towards a common goal
• Enthusiasm for Tableau’s mission as a focus for your research agenda
• Experience publishing research results at major conferences or in journals, such as those sponsored by ACM or IEEE