The Rice University Department of Computer Science and Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering are seeking a Data Scientist to build and operate the data infrastructure for READINESS, a new $20 million NSF-funded project transforming four materials synthesis systems (CVD, thermal, PVD, and plasma CVD reactors for 2D materials, oxides, and diamond films) into an AI-driven, remotely accessible autonomous laboratory. Reporting to the faculty leads of the READINESS Data Infrastructure working group, the Data Scientist will collaborate closely with the synthesis platform teams, robotics and AI/digital-twin working groups, Rice IT and Information Security, and graduate and undergraduate students involved in the project.