[Infovis] Talent Hiring Round for Visual Analytics Product | Developers for GraphPolaris

[Michael Behrisch]

Dear VIS community,


This mailing list is typically used for sharing academic updates and job 
openings. In this post, however, it is all about giving a finishing 
PhD., master student, or (in general) VIS-interested person the 
opportunity to stay a valuable member in our community.
Please, help us to spread the word for finding a research 
engineer/developer for our academic spin-off GraphPolaris 
(www.graphpolaris.com). Also, if our core topic 
(multivariate/multi-layer or knowledge graph analysis) sparks your 
interest, I would be happy to discuss potential use-cases and/or 
application-scenarios.

With best regards,
Michael Behrisch and Remco Chang

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Dear all,

With this email, I would like to steer your attention to a unique job 
opportunity and advertise a potentially interesting next step and career 
entrance opportunity in the ‘GraphPolaris Developer Hiring Round 2022’. 
Our academic spin-off GraphPolaris (www.graphpolaris.com 
<http://www.graphpolaris.com>) is searching for *Front-end/Full-Stack 
DEVELOPERs who strive with us to remove the frustration and uncertainty 
of the analysis of complex network datasets*. We firmly believe that 
data analysis processes should be (more) centered around the person who 
does the analysis or makes the business decisions. A human-centered 
approach will inevitably lead to more, better, and more sustainable 
innovations in business and societal settings.

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*How and What:*In GraphPolaris, we combine the creativity and common 
knowledge of the human with the number-crunching capabilities of the 
machine and *make insights visible, explainable, and auditable through 
visual interactive analysis interfaces*. Our main product, the Graph 
Database Explorer, is the logical first manifestation of this credo: We 
are building a visual graph analytics framework that focuses on easy, 
explainable, and efficient access to (multivariate) graph databases with 
better visualization support and a ready-to-use graph ML toolbox. Our 
unique selling points are (1) a full-fledged, dedicated graph analysis 
workflow that starts with questions around data quality and schema 
consistency, evolves (2) around an intuitive query formulation in a 
no-code visual query editor, and lets the user loop effortlessly through 
query-refinement and interactive exploration of (3) better visualization 
techniques than just node-link diagrams.

*Who we are:*GraphPolaris was founded by Dr. Michael Behrisch and Prof. 
Remco Chang. Michael is a Professor for Visual Analytics at the Utrecht 
University, driven by the motivation to bring good Visualization and 
Visual Analytics research results into environments (business, public 
sector, research) where they can make an impact. Michael is experienced 
in managing and acquiring research projects and worked for six years as 
a business analyst (startup & technical innovation research for Deutsche 
Telekom). He coordinates the GraphPolaris team effort, market 
assessment, outreach tasks, and manages tasks for knowledge transfer 
activities. Remco Chang is a Professor for Visual Analytics at the Tufts 
University in Medford, USA, whose research embodies the concept of 
letting human analysts steer the processing power of the PC through 
visual interactive interfaces to accomplish explainable, faithful, and 
usable data analysis results. Remcohas a track record of various 
high-profile international research grantsand gained startup experience 
with the Kyrix visualization system in the team of Mike Stonebraker 
(Touring award winner, Ingres/Postgres).

*Where we are: *We are in a seed stage of our startup life, have several 
MVPs, and concluded a target customer/market analysis. We have received 
the NWO Takeoff grant for feasibility and initial market studies, the 
Google Startup Cloud Grant for hosting and operational expenses, and now 
proudly received the NWO Demonstrator grant for proving Product-Market-Fit.

*What we search for: *The task descriptions for this position are 
manifold, but one requirement is foremost: *We are searching for someone 
who can breath our vision and understands its impact.*

Consider applying if:

·… you have excellent *coding skills* /(must//-haves//: web//or//full 
stack skills)/and love solving challenging and societally impactful 
problems.

·… you have *(software) architecture skills* /(nice-to-haves: 
understanding of Kubernetes and microservice patterns)/ to improve our 
scalable infrastructure even further.

·… you areinterested in *visual data analytics***/(e.g., with mapbox, 
deck.gl, pixi//.js, d3.js//)/to improve or design state-of-the-art 
visual solutions and workflows.

·… you have worked with *graph databases* /(e.g., //with //Neo4j//’s 
cypher//, Tigergraph//’s GSQL//, or SPARQL)/to store and retrieve 
multivalue property graph data.

*What:*We are searching for full-time developers (1FTE, 38h/week), 
part-time contracts with more than 20h/week can be requested. Typical 
hiring conditions under CAO apply. Work will happen in a hybrid setting, 
fully online is also possible.

*How:*Send a personal and engaging motivation letter. State your prior 
experience, indicate your background and skills, and name potential 
open-source projects that you have contributed to (and how).

*When:*Please send your application documents by 31.10.2022 to 
info at graphpolaris.com <mailto:info at graphpolaris.com>. Also feel free to 
get in touch with me (Michael Behrisch, m.behrisch at uu.nl 
<mailto:m.behrisch at uu.nl>) personally in case of unclarities or questions.

Let’s change the world of graph analytics!

Dr. Michael Behrisch (http://michael.behrisch.info 
<http://michael.behrisch.info>)





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