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.

Lead quantitative research projects end-to-end, design proposals, analyze large datasets, prepare reports and presentations, advise clients strategically, mentor junior staff, support business development, and manage account-level client relationships.

Lead the Centre for Indigenous Community Infrastructure as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, build community-rooted interdisciplinary research programs, secure external funding, expand partnerships, supervise trainees, contribute to teaching, and advance culturally grounded, implementable infrastructure solutions for Indigenous and remote communities.

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 Statistical Programmer develops, maintains, and validates datasets and reports for clinical trials, ensuring high-quality deliverables while adhering to industry standards and guidelines.

The Senior Manager will oversee legal, business, and competitive intelligence research, manage research teams, ensure quality outputs, and improve research workflows.

Own territory sales for the Cellular and Molecular Research portfolio, manage key customer relationships, and drive revenue for instruments and consumables. Develop and execute strategic account and territory plans, identify cross-product opportunities, collaborate with product specialists and field scientists, and use CRM to manage pipeline and forecasts.

Lead the design and development of software for quantum machine learning methods. Collaborate with researchers and communicate findings. Oversee best practices in machine learning systems and influence product offerings.

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.

Lead applied research on continual learning, fast adaptation, memory, and transfer learning for agentic systems. Own end-to-end pipeline from data generation to evaluation and product integration, run experiments, produce code, and drive research strategy while mentoring and managing a small team.

Lead applied research on spatial reasoning, geometric and physical world modeling. Own data generation, evaluation, and product integration. Implement experiments, build production code, and drive research strategy in 3D, multimodal, simulation, and related domains.

Assist research staff in planning, executing, and analyzing experiments. Collect and interpret data, maintain lab equipment, participate in sample procurement, present findings, and learn tissue preservation and processing techniques through hands-on laboratory work and partner lab visits.

Design and optimize high-performance kernels and custom operators for attention, MoE, GEMM, quantization and collective communication across NVIDIA, AMD and AWS Trainium. Improve LLM inference runtimes, develop distributed training/inference solutions at scale, use compilers and SDKs (Neuron, Torch Dynamo, PyTorch/XLA), contribute to open-source, and publish technical findings.

The Forward Deployed Research Scientist engages directly with AI labs to develop data strategies, fine-tune models, run experiments, and collaborate on publishing research, all in a fast-paced client-focused setting.