Remote Data Curator: Space Bioscience & Open Science

Rothe Development Inc; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rothe Development Inc. seeks a Data Curator to acquire, curate, and standardize metadata for NASA's Open Science Data Repositories within the NASA Ames Research Center. The role supports submissions, ensures high-quality datasets for public access, and helps implement metadata standards for reuse.

You will collaborate with NASA, academia, and industry, responding to metadata queries and contributing to documentation and tutorials for user communities.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with biocuration and metadata formatting for physiological-phenotypic/omics datasets.
• Experience with bioimaging formats, processing, and analysis.
• Background in biostatistics and bioinformatics concepts.
• Some scripting experience in R, Python, or Unix.
• Lab exposure to omics technologies and common assays.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Biocuration

Bioimaging

Biostatistics

Scripting (R, Python, Unix)

Omics experience

Data management

GitHub

Open Science Principles

Education

Master's degree in biology/related field

Bachelor's degree in biology/related field

Tools

SQL

XML

C++

PHP

MATLAB

Job description

Rothe Development Inc. seeks a Data Curator to acquire, curate, and standardize metadata for NASA's Open Science Data Repositories within the NASA Ames Research Center. The role supports submissions, ensures high-quality datasets for public access, and helps implement metadata standards for reuse.

You will collaborate with NASA, academia, and industry, responding to metadata queries and contributing to documentation and tutorials for user communities.