Open Science Data Curator for Public Data Reuse

Rothe Development; California (MO); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rothe Development seeks a Data Curator to provide data acquisition, curation, metadata standardization, and database operations support for NASA's Open Science Data Repositories at NASA Ames Research Center.

You will collaborate with scientific user communities, project collaborators, and NASA partners to enhance OSDR usability, respond to metadata inquiries, and develop tutorials and documentation for data submission and reuse.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with biocuration of omics data and metadata formatting.
• Experience with bioimaging formats and analysis.
• Knowledge of biostatistics and bioinformatics concepts.
• Some scripting in Python or R; Unix scripting helpful.
• Lab exposure to omics technologies and assays.
• Experience with genomic/phenotypic data management.
• Version control familiarity (GitHub).
• Ability to work in a team and follow Open Science principles.

Responsibilities

• Curate space bioscience omics, phenotypic, physiological, and behavioral datasets.
• Curate data across tabular, imaging, and video formats and verify accuracy.
• Review data submissions for quality; generate data quality reports.
• Modify and execute data processing, analysis, and federation pipelines.
• Field inquiries from the data system user community.
• Develop documentation and tutorials for the database users.
• Maintain quality control and integrity of databases and query tools.

Skills

Biocuration

Python

R

GitHub

Data management

Metadata standards

Team collaboration

Education

Master's degree in biology or related field

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

SQL

XML

MATLAB

UNIX shell

C++

PHP

Job description

Rothe Development seeks a Data Curator to provide data acquisition, curation, metadata standardization, and database operations support for NASA's Open Science Data Repositories at NASA Ames Research Center.

You will collaborate with scientific user communities, project collaborators, and NASA partners to enhance OSDR usability, respond to metadata inquiries, and develop tutorials and documentation for data submission and reuse.