Remote Data Curator: Space & Open Science Repositories

Rothe Development Inc; California; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rothe Development Inc. is seeking a Data Curator to provide data acquisition, curation, metadata standardization, and database operations support for NASA's Open Science Data Repositories (OSDR) within the NASA Ames Research Center.

The incumbent will support high-quality dataset curation to enable trustworthy public access and computational reuse, and will collaborate with NASA, academia, and industry partners to enhance the OSDR user experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum education as specified: Master's or Bachelor's in biology-related field.
• Experience with biocuration and metadata formatting for omics datasets.
• Familiarity with bioimaging formats, biostatistics, and scripting languages (R, Python).

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 and relevance; generate quality reports.
• Modify and execute data processing, analysis, publication, and federation pipelines.
• Field inquiries from the user community of the data system.
• Develop documentation and tutorials for database use by the user community.
• Maintain data quality and integrity of databases and query tools.

Skills

Biocuration knowledge

Bioinformatics basics

Programming (R/Python)

Open Science Principles

Team collaboration

Documentation

Education

Master's degree in biology or related field

Bachelor's degree in biology or related field

Tools

GitHub

Bioinformatics tools

SQL

XML

Job description

Rothe Development Inc. is seeking a Data Curator to provide data acquisition, curation, metadata standardization, and database operations support for NASA's Open Science Data Repositories (OSDR) within the NASA Ames Research Center.

The incumbent will support high-quality dataset curation to enable trustworthy public access and computational reuse, and will collaborate with NASA, academia, and industry partners to enhance the OSDR user experience.