Data Visualization Engineer

About This Role

This engineering role is for a versatile, hands-on builder who will own how the company turns data into decisions. The engineer will administer the current BI platform, build dashboards quickly, and partner with the business to shape a modern, unified reporting and analytics solution.

Responsibilities

• Administer the BI platform (currently Tableau Server) as its sole administrator, including upgrades, patches, maintenance, license management, SSO, and data drivers
• Support 12 department sites and their Site Admins, plus about 700 users, including owning the tbl-site-admins and tableau Slack channels
• Handle all BI requests through Slack and Jira (about 12 a week), including access, ownership changes, data source issues, troubleshooting, and fixing bugs
• Communicate proactively with Site Admins, users, and developers about downtime, upgrades, and widespread issues
• Quickly design and build dashboards and data products that turn complex data into clear, decision-ready insight
• Maintain an inventory of existing reports and dashboards and work with business owners to decide what to migrate, rebuild, or retire
• Help stakeholders pick the right solution for each use case (dashboard, custom application, Grok team bot, and so on) and lead the migration to it
• Set standards for data access, row-level security, and visualization quality

Requirements

• Strong SQL, including complex joins, window functions, and performance tuning
• Data visualization and dashboard design: chart selection, UX, and storytelling with data
• Row-level security and data access controls
• Rapid dashboard development in one or more BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Superset, or similar)
• Platform administration fundamentals: SSO/SAML, APIs, and monitoring
• Comfort using AI tools to speed up analysis, development, and migrations

Nice to have:

• Data modeling and warehouse concepts (star schemas, semantic layers) on platforms such as Big Query, Snowflake, or Databricks
• Python or JavaScript for data prep, automation, or custom visuals

Benefits

• Equity
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Various other discounts and perks

About the Company

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars. SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Its teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to a suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. The company is creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what is learned from people using those products shapes what is built next.