Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

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 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.

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.

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.

The successful candidate will conduct research in experimental cellular and systems biophysics, focusing on neural and cardiac cells and their interconnections, and drive innovative collaborations for health advancements.

Lead an interdisciplinary research program investigating mechanistic interactions in psychosis using neuroimaging, computational psychiatry, AI/ML, and multimodal data integration; supervise trainees, obtain external funding, teach, and translate discoveries into precision psychiatry and patient-centred care.

Assist a faculty researcher in macro/labor economics with data cleaning, coding, statistical analysis, literature reviews, and support on research projects related to labor-market dynamics. 130 hours for Fall 2026; renewable for two terms.

Assist a research project on austerity and immigration policy by conducting literature reviews, synthesizing and analyzing legal and social-science sources, and attending remote research team meetings. Work independently, meet deadlines, and support research organization and analysis tasks.

Recruit and engage adult participants assigned female at birth or with a uterus for an online survey on sexual knowledge and wellbeing. Develop and distribute recruitment materials, liaise with community organizations, compile and clean Qualtrics survey data, assist with data organization and basic analyses. Short-term 35-hour contract with possible extension.

Lead Cayenta’s AI-centric R&D transformation, running R&D P&L, modernizing a legacy enterprise product, embedding AI across development practices, and leading a 70-person engineering organization while partnering with executives to deliver measurable revenue or cost impact.

Provide 130 hours of editorial research support for the Canadian Journal of Education: thematic and methodological analyses of past articles, prepare historical materials for publication, update the journal website (award recipients and past editorial teams), and revise author guidelines. Work bilingually in English and French and collaborate with the editorial team.

Support the INSPIRE Core Facility by providing onsite experimental setup and monitoring, managing lab equipment and participant pools, troubleshooting equipment failures, and supporting online survey platforms and data-collection systems.

Lead needs analysis, gap assessments, and research planning for a new Counter-Uncrewed Aerial Systems capability. Elicit stakeholder requirements, document use-cases and processes, evaluate state-of-the-art C-UAS solutions, recommend options, and liaise with government, industry, and research partners to close capability gaps.

The Frontend Engineer will implement UI features, automate UI testing, and oversee production releases while focusing on user experience in the blockchain space.

The Backend Engineer will implement new SDK and Indexer features, automate testing, support integration, and oversee production releases.

Translate cutting-edge ML and physics research into production-grade scientific code, architect and scale large simulation and training pipelines on GPU infrastructure, optimize hardware-level performance, support models through full product lifecycle, and integrate complex datasets and ML models into external-facing drug and materials discovery products.

Conduct and oversee clinical trial site monitoring (qualification, initiation, interim, close-out) to ensure protocol, GCP, and regulatory compliance. Perform source data verification/CRF review, eTMF/TMF QC, investigational product accountability, SAE reconciliation, monitoring visit reporting, site training/mentoring, budget oversight for stand-alone studies, and cross-functional coordination with sponsors, data management, and finance.