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.

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.

Leads operational and engineering support for CJADC2 prototyping, Joint Operations Fusion Lab integration, C2/C4ISR network capabilities, and CAF joint targeting initiatives. Develops evaluation frameworks, SOPs, training programs, lessons-learned reports, doctrine recommendations, and course-of-action analyses. Advises senior military stakeholders, supports JADOCS and targeting systems, coordinates network maintenance, and translates operational requirements into systems engineering solutions. Requires substantial CAF, joint targeting, combatant command, and operational staff experience, with travel to Ottawa of up to 50%.

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.

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.

Leads global resource planning, workforce forecasting, talent allocation, and capacity optimization across projects, functions, and geographies. Advises senior leadership on workforce risks, organizational readiness, utilization, cost efficiency, and profitability. Develops planning frameworks, forecasting models, governance processes, metrics, and dashboards while partnering with Finance, HR, Talent Acquisition, and operational leaders. Drives cross-functional alignment, change management, and continuous improvement in a global CRO environment.

Supports the organization, communication, and mobilization of research findings and knowledge from the CRECS community. The role is based on the University of Ottawa main campus during the Fall 2026 semester, requires 130 total hours, and involves working in English and French under faculty supervision.

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.

Research Assistant contributing to the writing and updating of legal texts for the University of Ottawa’s “Common Law en Bref” project. The role requires enrollment in a Faculty of Law program and familiarity with Canadian legal citation rules. Work is conducted in English and French over 75 hours during the Fall 2026 semester, with potential renewal through April 9, 2027.

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.

Supports clinical psychology research through EMR data entry and analysis, database maintenance, progress monitoring, technical support, user coaching, and development of a clinical research database. Provides assistance with clinic systems, audio/video equipment, encryption software, and the Outcome Questionnaire platform. The role requires bilingual communication, graduate study in Clinical Psychology, and training in DroopL; experience with relevant technologies is preferred.

Conduct legal research on language rights in Canada and Ontario, focusing on the constitutional framework for official languages and relevant case law. Apply legal research tools and the McGill Guide, and produce high-quality legal writing in both French and English. The position requires 130 hours during the Fall 2026 semester and continuation work during the Winter term, requiring a separate application.

Collect court decisions and media coverage, conduct legal research, and code research materials for a criminology project examining forensic kits in sexual assault legal proceedings in Quebec. The role requires using legal search engines and Excel, with 60 total hours of work between September 20 and October 31, 2026.

Conduct legal research on language rights in Canada and Ontario, focusing on constitutional official-language frameworks and relevant case law. Apply legal research tools and the McGill Guide, and produce high-quality legal writing in both French and English. The role includes 130 hours of work during the Winter 2027 semester and requires applying to the related Fall posting.

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.

Conducts online research to identify academic scholars whose expertise aligns with the Canadian Journal of Education. The assistant gathers, verifies, updates, and organizes reviewer information in a database; identifies expertise gaps; collaborates with journal editors; and supports related research and editorial tasks. Success requires strong information-search, database or spreadsheet, academic research, organizational, independent-work, collaboration, and English writing skills.

Develop experimental AI techniques for agentic marketing applications, especially image and video generation. Build proofs of concept, autonomous evaluation and improvement systems, realistic AI-generated video, and brand-aligned creative generation workflows. The role requires strong quantitative and probabilistic thinking, backend architecture skills, creativity with LLM applications, and product intuition.

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.