Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Manages, monitors, and closes assigned clinical trial sites, ensuring patient safety, protocol compliance, data quality, regulatory adherence, and timely study delivery. Responsibilities include site relationship management, recruitment support, onsite and remote monitoring, adverse event follow-up, investigational product oversight, issue resolution, audit and CAPA support, reporting, and database release. The role also mentors clinical research associates, supports site activation and feasibility activities, and participates in process improvement initiatives.

Manages, monitors, and closes assigned clinical trial sites from initiation through database lock. Ensures patient safety, protocol compliance, data quality, regulatory adherence, recruitment progress, investigational product accountability, and timely issue resolution. Serves as the primary site contact, conducts onsite and remote monitoring, supports audits and CAPA activities, trains site personnel, resolves data queries, and collaborates with investigators, vendors, drug safety teams, and study stakeholders. The role also mentors Clinical Research Associates and contributes to process improvement initiatives.

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.

Advises faculty researchers on project development, budgets, resources, funding applications, and grant requirements. Tracks funding opportunities, supports interinstitutional initiatives, develops research administration processes, and leads workshops. Promotes research achievements through awards, media, and public outreach. Conducts research trend analysis and prepares reports for strategic planning. Manages special projects, partnerships, and relationships with researchers, granting agencies, university units, and external organizations.

Manages the Berkman Library and coordinates services for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Provides advanced reference, research liaison, information literacy instruction, workshops, document delivery, and interlibrary loan services. Develops collections and information resources, supports teaching and research teams, and manages human, financial, and documentation resources. Requires an accredited MLIS, relevant professional experience, health sciences knowledge, library technology expertise, service-planning experience, strong communication skills, and bilingual English-French proficiency.

Assists with a Vista Grant application in French and English, collaborates with investigators, and applies prior stakeholder experience in experiential learning through CDEL and the Faculty of Education Methods Lab. The position involves 130 hours of research support from September 15 through December 22, 2026.

Conduct a literature review of South Korean social policies since 1992, covering relevant ministries and agencies, their budgets, population aging, and policy responses debated in South Korea. The role requires advanced comprehension of written Korean and a master’s degree in political science. The position involves 130 hours of research work during the Fall 2026 semester.

Conduct research on intergroup relations, attitudes, identity, and belonging in a Montreal neighborhood. Responsibilities include analyzing survey data, compiling census data, and analyzing interviews with neighborhood residents using quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Conducts research coordination, literature reviews, data collection, analysis and processing, funding proposal preparation, collaboration with Indigenous partners, facilitation, mediation, community-of-practice participation, editing, and writing for a social work research project.

The Research Assistant will support program evaluation and reporting for the Startup Law Clinic and help draft a bilingual online Startup Legal Playbook covering common legal issues faced by startup founders. The role runs from October 1 through December 22, 2026, for 75 total hours, with potential renewal through March 31, 2027. Work is conducted in English and French under the supervision of the Common Law Section.

Conduct in-depth research and analysis on Canadian and international maritime regulations, practices, and policies within a geopolitical context. Develop recommendations to strengthen maritime transport in Canada, present findings at a likely March 2027 conference, refine recommendations afterward, and share them with government agencies and maritime organizations. The role requires legal research, policy analysis, effective communication, deadline management, and potential contract renewal through April 2027.

Coordinates clinical research site selection and feasibility activities, including identifying investigators, evaluating questionnaires, recommending sites, coordinating qualification visits, and tracking activities in a CTMS. Builds relationships with clinical research sites, supports site quality assessments, collaborates with sponsors and project teams, and contributes to departmental initiatives. Requires at least three years of clinical research experience, knowledge of good clinical practices and Health Canada and FDA guidelines, and strong English communication skills; French and dermatology experience are assets.

Tracks and reports project profitability, budgets, revenues, expenses, forecasts, invoicing, and financial variances. Configures projects and budgets in financial systems, prepares journal entries and project reports, supports audits, advises project teams on cost control, and coordinates financial reviews with project managers and clients. The role also identifies process improvements and ensures accurate project financial records and account reconciliations.

Teach an in-person undergraduate Market Research course covering exploratory, descriptive, and causal research methods, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, experiments, sampling, market data analysis, multivariate techniques, and applied topics. The instructor will review prerequisite statistics, demonstrate data analysis using SPSS, teach Qualtrics, and assess student learning. The course meets Thursdays from 7:00–10:00 p.m. during the Winter 2027 semester.

Conduct and optimize in vivo rodent studies supporting preclinical therapeutic development. Responsibilities include protocol development, dosing, survival surgeries, tissue collection and processing, biosample management, data analysis, animal model development, documentation, regulatory compliance, and collaboration with scientists, cross-functional teams, and CROs.

Supports budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cash-flow management, financial modeling, and recurring reporting across corporate and site-level cost centers. Builds dashboards and KPI tracking, maintains shared financial models, partners with operational and clinical leaders, and contributes to integrated P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow modeling. The role also helps automate reporting and establish FP&A processes and best practices.

Leads AI R&D initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, project scope, resources, schedules, risks, roadmaps, and requirements. Partners with the AI Director, coordinates teams across North America and Europe, removes delivery blockers, improves production processes, and maintains external partnerships. The role emphasizes team empowerment, Agile collaboration, communication, analytical problem-solving, and delivery of AI, research, or game-development projects.

Lead research program execution for AI-driven scientific discovery. Partner with research leaders to define priorities, hypotheses, milestones, evidence plans, KPIs, and expected outcomes. Manage the research portfolio and ROI framework, establish operating rhythms, track investment and progress, identify stalled or low-value initiatives, and drive decisions to iterate, redirect, pause, or stop work. Translate research progress and tradeoffs for Product, Engineering, and leadership while supporting the transition of successful research into product capabilities.

Create monthly investor insights, investment materials, financial planning content, and timely market notes for Wealthsimple clients. Research market developments, synthesize complex investment concepts into clear and engaging writing, exercise editorial judgment, and use AI tools to refine standard content. The role partners with investment and editorial teams while requiring strong financial literacy, investment judgment, curiosity, independence, and familiarity with Canadian wealth management or retail investment products.

Lead generative UX and market research to identify emerging opportunities, assess markets, define ICPs and value propositions, and shape product and business strategy. Influence senior leaders, partner with analytics, product, design, marketing, sales, and client services, and translate insights into investment and go-to-market decisions. Coach researchers, improve UXR processes, and integrate AI into scalable research workflows.

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.

Lead, coach, and grow a team of UX researchers supporting Stripe Payments and Risk products. Conduct and guide mixed-methods research, translate user insights into product strategy, establish research programs and infrastructure, and enable cross-functional teams to apply research practices. Partner with product, design, business, and executive leaders while guiding AI-driven improvements to research processes and sourcing external research vendors.

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.

Leads daily operations at the Ottawa clinical research site, managing staff schedules, workloads, training, investigator relationships, recruitment, enrollment, documentation, compliance, monitoring visits, audits, and process improvement. Supports participant care and study procedures, including vitals, ECGs, phlebotomy, and sample processing when trained and delegated.

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.