Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Graduate research interns will own end-to-end projects to build customer world models and proactive intelligence: developing representation learning, foundation model, RL/agentic methods, evaluation frameworks, and shipping research into production to improve customer decision-making.

The role involves researching and developing large language models (LLMs) with a focus on transformer architecture, data curation, distributed training, and optimization. Responsibilities include conducting experiments, collaborating with teams, and staying updated on deep learning advancements.

The Director of Research for Power Markets will oversee the QA/QC process for long-term price forecasts and act as an advisor to leadership, ensuring rigorous review and internal expertise engagement throughout the forecasting cycle.

Graduate research interns will own end-to-end projects developing customer world models and proactive intelligence. Work spans representation learning, foundation models, reinforcement learning, agentic decision systems, and evaluation. Tasks include designing methods, running experiments, publishing findings, and potentially shipping models into production to impact customer-facing products.

Conduct literature and internet research for a SSHRC-funded project on the white Afrikaner minority and the global radical right. Gather and analyze sources, support the supervising professor with research tasks over a fixed-term (120 hours). Fluency in English and strong analytical skills required; knowledge of South African politics desirable.

Coordinate a CIHR-funded community-based longitudinal study: recruit and enroll participants, conduct behavioral observations and psychometric assessments, manage and verify data, track retention, support analyses and knowledge mobilization, liaise with clinicians and research team, and prepare reports and presentations.

Provide administrative and program-support to the clinical program director, including compiling tables, communicating with faculty and students, assisting with program/policy initiatives, developing resources, and contributing to equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.

Perform bibliographic research, develop a searchable bibliography, and write concise text summaries. Work 130 hours between September and December using Endnote, Philosopher's Index, Word, and Excel under a supervising professor.

Support a study on counselling self-efficacy among psychotherapy trainees: manage Qualtrics data collection, ensure data integrity, score validated instruments, perform advanced longitudinal and multilevel analyses (R), and contribute to manuscripts and conference presentations.

Provide literature review, assist with data collection, help plan and coordinate conferences/workshops, and support publication and copywriting for an ethnographic SSHRC-funded study on labour and livability in Tokyo.

Lead the development of advanced satellite capabilities for defence, overseeing research, technology integration, and collaboration across teams to address evolving operational needs.

Support a research project on green procurement and firm innovation. Tasks include data collection, cleaning, producing descriptive figures, assisting regression analysis, organizing code and raw data, preparing replication packages, and copy-editing manuscripts.

Support the UnborderED project by performing secondary data collection, managing and analyzing data, translating and reviewing French materials, and participating in meetings and events to support research on forced migration.

The Senior Editor, Research & Intelligence will gather and analyze audience insights to shape content and strategy, driving measurable growth and improving audience engagement through insight-driven recommendations and reporting.

Conduct technology research and scanning across emerging domains, analyze trends and impacts, and produce briefs, dashboards, reports and presentations. Maintain research records, dashboards and knowledge repositories, support enterprise architecture and decision-making, and assist with external research coordination and continuous improvement of research processes.

Support research on chronic pelvic pain: recruit and engage participants, collect and manage data, conduct literature reviews, maintain ethics protocols, perform data analyses (dyadic), and help draft manuscripts in English.

Prepare the online edition of the Political Dictionary of Quebec's Municipal Scene and create bilingual promotional visual materials. Work includes content preparation, editing, and graphic design tasks under faculty supervision for a short-term research appointment.

Accountable for monitoring and managing assigned oncology clinical trial sites to ensure compliance with ICH/GCP, sponsor SOPs and local regulations. Serves as primary site contact, conducts remote and on-site visits, maintains CTMS/eTMF records, supports site selection and start-up, resolves site performance and compliance issues, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Requires substantial domestic and international travel.

Assist Professor Paul Robinson researching historical and contemporary Russian defeatism by locating and collecting materials (digital newspapers, social media, websites), organizing datasets, and conducting additional research as the project develops. Must read Russian and manage collected materials for accessibility and research relevance.

Assist faculty with analysis of electricity consumption data, develop and write/edit a theoretical model, and perform research tasks as agreed. Work runs September–December for 130 hours, reporting to a supervising professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Design and implement portfolio-construction and trade-execution models, focusing on optimization, risk modeling, tax-aware execution, and backtesting. Translate research into production-quality systems, collaborate with investment and engineering teams, validate strategies against historical data, and maintain robust, scalable services for managing client portfolios.

The Software Developer will design optimization software, develop features, analyze algorithms, and collaborate with R&D teams to enhance product quality.

Support Program Directors and Global Project Managers with study preparation, maintenance, and closeout. Coordinate meetings, prepare agendas and presentation materials, generate meeting minutes, maintain tracking tools and document repositories (Smartsheet, Veeva, SharePoint), enter data, and track action items to ensure on-time, compliant execution of early-phase clinical studies.

Lead end-to-end user research across Tempo's product portfolio, run studies in early access/beta/design partner programs, synthesize findings, partner with Design and Product, use AI to accelerate analysis, report to stakeholders, and help define research strategy and operations.

Design and execute molecular biology and immunology preclinical studies (2D/3D cell models) to evaluate oral, digestive, and allergy product effects. Lead development of predictive assays and biomarker analyses, manage BSL-2 lab work, collaborate cross-functionally, protect IP, and communicate results via presentations and publications.