Data Visualization Engineer

Tempus; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus is seeking a Data Visualization Engineer to join the Next team in Chicago. You will translate clinical and enriched data into visually compelling dashboards for internal stakeholders, healthcare providers, and health system administrators at the point of care.

You will ensure data quality, perform targeted analyses, and empower teammates to build their own visualizations with robust data models and clear documentation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing data visualizations.
• Strong experience with SQL and relational data.
• Deep understanding of Data Modeling patterns and best practices.
• Experience with Looker or other BI tools (Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams of account managers, product managers and engineers.
• Write high-quality, well-documented code that is scalable and version-controlled (GitHub).
• Excellent time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality, accuracy and timeliness of data products.
• Perform custom analyses to support account managers and clinical partners.
• Design, build, and maintain stand-alone data visualizations and dashboards for internal and external stakeholders.
• Empower colleagues to conduct their own data investigations by designing, creating, and maintaining data models and documentation.

Skills

Data visualization

SQL

Data modeling

BI tools (Looker/Tableau/Power BI)

Communication

Collaboration

Git / version control

Time management

Tools

Looker

Looker Studio

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

About the Role

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry? Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time. At Tempus, products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of developers, designers, scientists, clinicians, and product managers. You and your team set the goals, build the software, deploy the code, and contribute to a growing software platform that will make a lasting impact in the field of healthcare research and treatment. Tempus builds rich longitudinal datasets which enable research and product development. Our data and reporting infrastructure – using BigQuery (Google Cloud Platform) and Looker – allows product teams to deliver advanced insights with confidence, and at scale. As a Data Visualization Engineer on the Tempus Next team, you will work on solutions to synthesize clinical and enriched data from the Next product, which identifies patients with gaps in their clinical care. You will translate these into visually compelling dashboards for internal stakeholders, healthcare providers, and health system administrators at the point of care.

As a Data Visualization Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring the quality, accuracy and timeliness of data products
• Performing custom analyses to support account managers and clinical partners (e.g., identify patients that meet clinical trial inclusion/exclusion criteria)
• Designing, building, and maintaining stand‑alone data visualizations and dashboards for both internal and external stakeholders
• Empowering account and product managers to conduct their own data investigations, and build their own visualizations, by designing, creating, and maintaining data models, and writing supporting documentation (e.g., entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, data/dashboard inventories)

Why we’re looking for you

• You have 3 or more years of hands‑on experience developing data visualizations
• Strong experience with SQL and relational data
• Deep understanding of Data Modeling patterns and best practices
• Experience working with Looker or other Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• You enjoy collaborating with a cross disciplinary team of account managers, product managers and engineers, and are comfortable interfacing with other teams
• You write high quality, well‑documented code that is scalable, version‑controlled (GitHub) and easy to use by other team members
• Excellent time‑management skills (e.g., accurately estimating time to complete tasks, working with stakeholders to set deadlines and priorities)

Bonus points

• Experience working with clinical or healthcare data (especially if related to Cardiology or Oncology)
• Experience working with dbt
• Experience developing software in Python/R, Javascript (D3.js), HTML, CSS
• Experience working with APIs and API clients
• Experience working with cloud service providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e,g., Terraform)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (e.g., JIRA/Trello, RACI)

Compensation & Benefits

#LI‑Hybrid #LI‑HR1 CHI: $70,000-$90,000 The expected salary range may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience.

Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

Equal opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

About the company

Tempus was founded in August of 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky, after his wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shortly after he founded the company in an effort to bring the power of technology and artificial intelligence to cancer care, he convinced Ryan Fukushima to join as the company’s first employee. Ryan and Eric began assembling a world class team, focused on building the first version of a platform capable of ingesting real time healthcare data in an effort to personalize diagnostics. We built the platform for oncology and have expanded it to neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease (through COVID), and radiology. Despite our rapid growth, our mission remains the same—to help make sure patients are on the right drug at the right time, so they can live longer and healthier lives.

We’re looking for people who can change the world. Who question the status quo and don’t shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We’re looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. Head on.