- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: Köln
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
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About This Opportunity
Our talent team is representing a confidential research organization in Köln that conducts work at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, and semantic technologies. They are seeking a Research Data Manager at the postdoctoral level to lead a project focused on mapping metadata harvesting relationships across German research data services.
This is a three-year limited position starting October 1, 2026, working full-time (100%) in Cologne. The role combines technical metadata expertise with community networking to improve the visibility and discoverability of research data.
Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate a project that maps how metadata propagates between data collection services
- Set up automated systems for metadata collection leveraging AI tools
- Network within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and related research data organizations to promote project goals
- Organize networking events and stakeholder engagement activities
- Conduct research on knowledge graphs, information extraction, and metadata transformation
- Work with data services and harvesters to develop best practices for metadata presentation
- Wrangle, model, and analyze metadata at scale
What We're Looking For
- Completed PhD in Computer Science, Social Science, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience in Research Data Management, ideally within the NFDI context or with services that harvest research metadata
- Technical experience handling, curating, harvesting, and/or extracting research metadata
- Proven research record in knowledge graphs and/or information extraction
- Excellent English communication skills (German language skills are a plus)
- Strong networking capabilities within research data communities
- Ability to balance technical work with stakeholder coordination
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Cologne is the fourth-most populous city of Germany and the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region. Cologne is also part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, the second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Centered on the left bank of the Rhine, Cologne is located on the River Rhine, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital Düsseldorf and 22 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Bonn, the former capital
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a landlocked state in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of 34,084 km2 (13,160 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
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National unemployment rate in Germany: 3.7% — via World Bank
GDP per capita in Germany: $60,496 — via World Bank
Consumer price inflation in Germany: 2.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Real GDP growth in Germany: 0.2% (annual) — via World Bank
Statutory minimum wage in Germany: €2,343/month — via Eurostat
Cost of living in Germany: 9.1% above the EU average — via Eurostat
Job vacancy rate in Germany: 2.8% — via Eurostat
Average hours worked per year in Germany: 1,332 — via OECD
Nearby green space: 10 parks within 1.5km — closest is Rheingarten (188m). via OpenStreetMap
Nearest public transit: CityTour Haltestelle 3: Gürzenich / Hard Rock Cafe (bus stop, 239m). via OpenStreetMap
- Elevation 55m (180 ft)
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- Role Research Data Manager (PostDoc) for mapping harvesting relationships (KTS-84)
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location Köln
- Type Temporary
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 9, 2026
- Apply by October 9, 2026
- Country Germany
- Overview Full job description on this page (353 words)
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