Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Lead design, build, and deploy of large-scale data platforms for LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI systems. Hands-on coding, architecting fault-tolerant pipelines, establishing MLOps/DataOps best practices, mentoring engineers, and operationalizing research into production across Exabyte-scale distributed systems.

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.

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.

Supports a SSHRC-funded project on green procurement policies and firm-level innovation. Duties include collecting, entering, cleaning, and analyzing data; producing graphs; assisting with regression analysis; organizing code and raw data; preparing replication packages; and formatting and copy-editing research manuscripts.

Conduct research on China and the Indo-Pacific, including critical minerals value chains and supply chain resilience. Responsibilities include Mandarin and English research, commercial and trade data collection and analysis, academic and policy literature review, field research support, and building and maintaining research databases.

Conduct research on bibliometrics and research policies in African countries. Responsibilities include data mining, collecting and organizing policy documents and metadata, categorizing articles, identifying journals and authors by country, conducting literature reviews, and producing bibliographies. The role requires quantitative sociological methods, strong English proficiency, and enrollment in a social sciences MA or PhD program, though qualified BA students may be considered.

Conduct large-scale data cleaning and merging, perform preliminary empirical analysis, and review code and replication checks for applied microeconomics research. The role requires a PhD student in Economics with an applied microeconomics research focus and proficiency in Python, R, and Stata.

Conduct evidence-based assessments of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic tests, and other health technologies, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and health technology assessments. Prepare clinical reviews, briefing papers, manuscripts, and recommendations; critically appraise evidence; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external experts; present findings to advisory committees; respond to feedback; and support research methods, processes, and special projects.

Conduct an extensive literature review on bail court case processing, complete 50–60 hours of observations at Ottawa Courthouse, and code quantitative and qualitative data on case processing and outcomes. The role requires graduate-level knowledge of Canadian bail courts, prior Ontario bail court observation experience, data collection and coding experience, familiarity with international practices, and proficiency in SPSS or STATA.

Conducts economic research involving coding and data analysis using R, Stata, and oTree; prepares LaTeX materials and performs LLM-assisted text classification. The role is a 130-hour research assistant position under the supervision of an economics professor during the 2027 winter semester. Applicants must hold an MA in economics.

Conduct participant engagement and data collection, perform literature searches and reviews, develop and maintain ethics protocols, manage research data and protocols, conduct dyadic data analyses, and draft manuscripts in English. The research focuses on chronic pelvic pain, patient autonomy, and sexual health.

Coordinates research centre operations, events, communications, marketing, budgets, documentation, and outreach programs. Develops communications and marketing plans, creates written and digital content, manages event logistics, oversees budgets, maintains records and technology inventories, and coordinates promotional materials. Requires strong French and English communication skills, event and project management experience, web accessibility knowledge, and proficiency with communications, design, web, contact management, and office software.

Lead rigorous research involving frontier AI models, theoretical computer science, computational physics, mathematical proofs, algorithms, numerical experiments, simulations, and high-performance computing. Evaluate research outputs for correctness, novelty, reproducibility, and significance; identify limitations and reasoning failures; document findings in concise research memos; and recommend promising open problems and research directions. The role requires independent judgment, strong scholarly contributions, deep computational research expertise, and excellent technical communication.

Supports the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs with communications, outreach, and recruitment. Responsibilities include managing social media, drafting website and platform content, promoting programs and events, supporting student and partner engagement, organizing school activity information, and conducting short research projects on communications and engagement practices.

Lead research for a new quantum technology market initiative. Develop expertise in qubit hardware, fabrication, experimental setups, control flows, and measurement protocols. Validate approaches through experimentation, modeling, and device work; identify scaling bottlenecks; translate findings into product requirements and architectures; and collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, customers, partners, and the research community.

Conduct legal and scholarly research on access to justice for racialized students in university human rights, complaint, and appeal processes. Duties include analyzing tribunal and court decisions, reviewing university policies, coding research materials, supporting comparative analysis, and contributing to reports, conference materials, and publications under faculty supervision.

Conduct legal and scholarly research on access to justice for racialized students in human rights, complaint, and appeal processes at Ontario universities. Analyze tribunal and court decisions, university policies, and institutional documents; organize and code research materials; support comparative analysis; and assist with reports, conference materials, and scholarly publications. Participate in research meetings and training under the Principal Investigator’s supervision.

Conduct a literature review, contribute to research design and methodology development, and code qualitative data related to disaster studies. The position requires a PhD student with experience studying disasters and includes 45 hours of work during the Fall 2026 semester under faculty supervision.

Research Assistant will support a university research project on access to justice for racialized students in human rights, complaint, and appeal processes. Responsibilities include legal and scholarly research, analyzing tribunal and court decisions, reviewing university policies, coding research materials, comparative analysis, and assisting with reports, conference materials, and publications. The role requires participation in research meetings and training under principal investigator supervision.

Leads applied research for oral care, digestive health, and allergy R&D. Develops molecular biology and immunology methods, designs preclinical studies using 2D and 3D cell models, analyzes data, and generates mechanistic insights and scientific claims. Collaborates cross-functionally, communicates findings internally and externally, supports publications and intellectual property, and advances scientific capabilities and thought leadership.

Conduct secondary data collection, manage and analyze research data, translate materials from English to French, review French-language content, and participate in project meetings and events. The project focuses on equitable access to education and research opportunities for students and academics with lived experiences of forced migration in Canada.

Own the production deployment of neural and generative models for Waabi’s multi-sensor simulator. Responsibilities include optimizing models with compilation, quantization, mixed precision, CUDA, and custom kernels; building numerical parity benchmarks; developing model export, versioning, registry, and build tooling; collaborating with research teams; and managing GPU workloads in cloud environments.

Build, update, and review three-statement financial models for publicly traded companies. Develop sector expertise, improve modeling standards and dashboards, document best practices, conduct company research, support client service, contribute to product improvements, and train new team members. The role requires strong financial modeling, Excel, research, accounting, deadline management, and communication skills.

Build tools and infrastructure for training language and multi-agent models in interactive environments; research and implement advances in language modeling and reinforcement learning; contribute to publications and open-source projects.

Review algorithm-generated trades across managed portfolios, resolve abnormal orders, and identify operational bottlenecks in managed accounts. Support daily portfolio management and trading workflows while collaborating with trading, investment operations, product, and engineering teams. Help improve trade execution processes, portfolio tracking, and operational risk communication.