Biomedical Curator

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 preeminent collection of the world’s published medical literature, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, and theses, printed from the 15th through the early 21st century; manuscripts ranging in date from the 11th century to the present; fine prints, and other graphic materials from the 15th century to the present; and audio and visual materials.

In this role, you will work full-time reviewing MEDLINE citations that have been machine-indexed with Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the PMDM (PubMed Data Management) system and making adjustments to the indexing as needed.

This is full-time position with a remote-eligible work arrangement.

Job Responsibilities

• Reviewing machine-indexed citations and making adjustments in accordance with established MEDLINE citation curation policy
• Manual indexing (manually indexing MEDLINE citations with MeSH in the PMDM system in accordance with established MEDLINE indexing policy)
• Gene linking (linking genes mentioned in MEDLINE citations to NCBI’s Gene database)
• Other work to support indexing quality assurance, such as constructing PubMed searches to identify citations with missing or incorrect MeSH publication types or other terms; reviewing lists of citations identified as potentially requiring specific indexing corrections; submitting lists of affected PMIDs (PubMed unique identifiers) as batch correction requests; and making manual corrections in the PMDM system

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s or higher education in biology, biomedical science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of biomedical vocabulary, principles, and facts sufficient for:
  • Understanding and analyzing scientific literature on diverse biomedical topics such as anatomy, physiology, psychology, genetics, biochemistry, and health care practices
  • Comprehending biomedical concepts (even unfamiliar ones)
  • Understanding biomedical vocabulary, its applications, and relationships between terms
• Ability to annotate bibliographic citations to the scientific literature with appropriate terms from a controlled vocabulary:
  • Familiarity with biomedical terminology
  • Knowledge of controlled vocabularies (preferably MeSH)
  • Knowledge of the principles of subject indexing (preferably using MeSH)
• Ability to obtain public trust clearance

Desired Skills/Experience

• Experience with natural language processing (NLP), text mining, or automated text classification/indexing.
• Knowledge of information retrieval, search analytics, and search-user behavior.
• Experience evaluating algorithms using measures such as 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 (e.g., Git), and reproducible analytical workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of biomedical databases (especially PubMed/MEDLINE) and database search skills, including:
  • Familiarity with typical practices in biomedical publishing, types of scientific publications, components of citations, and basic bibliographic data
  • Proficiency in constructing complex queries (preferably in PubMed/MEDLINE) using advanced search features, including Boolean operators, search fields, and search filters
• Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Jira

Compensation and Benefits

The anticipated salary range for this position is $95,000–$115,000 annually. The starting salary within this range will be based on relevant experience, qualifications, and skills.