Biomedical Curator

Computercraft Corporation • Bethesda, MD

5d • $95,000 - $115,000

About The Position

Computercraft is seeking a Biomedical Curator to support the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. NLM maintains a wide-ranging collection of published medical literature and other materials, including books, journals, pamphlets, theses, manuscripts, graphic materials, and audio and visual materials.

The Biomedical Curator reviews MEDLINE citations that have been machine-indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the PMDM (PubMed Data Management) system and adjusts indexing as needed. The role also includes manual indexing, gene linking, and other indexing quality-assurance work. The position is full-time and has a remote-eligible work arrangement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher education in biology, biomedical science, or a related field.
• Biomedical vocabulary, principles, and facts sufficient to understand and analyze scientific literature across diverse topics, including anatomy, physiology, psychology, genetics, biochemistry, and health care practices.
• Ability to comprehend biomedical concepts, including unfamiliar concepts.
• Understanding of biomedical vocabulary, its applications, and relationships between terms.
• Ability to annotate bibliographic citations to scientific literature with appropriate terms from a controlled vocabulary.
• Familiarity with biomedical terminology.
• Knowledge of controlled vocabularies, preferably MeSH.
• Knowledge of subject-indexing principles, preferably using MeSH.
• Ability to obtain public trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with natural language processing, text mining, or automated text classification/indexing.
• Knowledge of information retrieval, search analytics, and search-user behavior.
• Experience evaluating algorithms using precision, recall, F1 score, and related performance metrics.
• Experience working with controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, or ontologies.
• Familiarity with biomedical or bibliographic data, particularly MEDLINE, PubMed, and MeSH.
• Experience using SQL, relational databases, version control such as Git, and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of biomedical databases, especially PubMed/MEDLINE, and database search skills.
• Familiarity with biomedical publishing practices, types of scientific publications, citation components, and basic bibliographic data.
• Proficiency constructing complex queries, preferably in PubMed/MEDLINE, using advanced search features such as Boolean operators, search fields, and search filters.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Review machine-indexed citations and adjust them in accordance with established MEDLINE citation curation policy.
• Manually index MEDLINE citations with MeSH in the PMDM system in accordance with established MEDLINE indexing policy.
• Link genes mentioned in MEDLINE citations to NCBI’s Gene database.
• Support indexing quality assurance by constructing PubMed searches to identify citations with missing or incorrect MeSH publication types or other terms.
• Review lists of citations identified as potentially requiring specific indexing corrections.
• Submit lists of affected PMIDs as batch correction requests.
• Make manual corrections in the PMDM system.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) plan with matching
• Paid leave starting at 128 hours per year for the first three years of employment
• 11 paid holidays
• Standard 40-hour work week and the opportunity for a positive work–life balance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time