Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Advises senior university research leaders on strategic initiatives, major funding programs, and competitive research proposals. Guides researchers in aligning projects with institutional and funding priorities, monitors research funding trends, builds partnership networks, and prepares analysis, briefing materials, recommendations, and action plans. Supports complex cross-functional initiatives and decision-making regarding research investments, equipment, and facilities.

Provides research support to students, faculty, and staff in communications, media, newspapers, linguistics, modern languages, translation, and bilingualism studies. Responsibilities include research consultations, information-literacy instruction, research-guide development, liaison relationship management, collection-development input, service assessment, and collaboration on institutional research priorities. The role requires bilingual French-English communication, scholarly resource expertise, teaching and research-support experience, and an MLIS degree.

Supports a fall education course alongside faculty, assists with class activities, and helps Professors Kane and Hollweck prepare an accepted AARE conference presentation based on classroom experiences.

Leads complex, multidisciplinary research grant development initiatives, coordinating proposal strategy, timelines, reviews, budgets, stakeholders, and funding-agency requirements. Advises researchers and university administrators, builds research partnerships, develops training and outreach programs, analyzes funding trends, and supports strategic research priorities. Manages special projects, improves grant-development processes, prepares reports, and supervises administrative support. The role requires extensive research-environment experience, grant writing expertise, knowledge of Canadian funding agencies, strong communication skills, project management abilities, and English-French bilingualism.

Conduct research on citizenship and skilled migration, including data collection, literature synthesis, and quantitative analysis. The position runs during the 2026 fall semester for 120 total hours and requires English and French language abilities. The successful candidate will work as a research assistant under faculty supervision.

Conduct bibliographic and documentary research, process data using quantitative discourse analysis software and qualitative methodology, compile a political discourse corpus, and prepare graphs and tables. Fluency in Spanish is required, along with TXN skills, data-processing expertise, and graph-creation ability. The position runs from September 24 through December 14, 2026, for 120 total hours, with work conducted in English and French.

Manage manuscript and peer-review workflow records, organize files, track submissions and reviewer activity, maintain reviewer expertise and contact records, and prepare routine administrative correspondence using approved templates. The role supports research operations for the Faculty of Education and requires 130 hours between September 2026 and April 2027.

Leads communications, administration, project coordination, compliance, reporting, and research promotion for a university Faculty of Medicine Research Office. Develops newsletters, web and social content, research profiles, reports, and promotional materials; coordinates funding programs, events, grants, contracts, committees, and review processes; manages administrative and financial workflows; supports stakeholders and ensures policy compliance. Requires strong bilingual communication, organization, research administration, project management, analysis, and relationship-building skills.

Conduct research on Quebec environmental, land-use planning, and energy laws; prepare literature reviews, documentary syntheses, parliamentary committee and public hearing analyses, data analyses, and article drafts. Provide weekly reports of completed work and hours. The role requires advanced knowledge of Quebec parliamentary and administrative institutions and enrollment in a doctoral program in public administration.

Conduct literature reviews on language policies at Canadian and European universities and recent research on science in French. Support drafting a synthesis document on science in French. The position is based on the main campus, runs from October 1 through December 22, 2026, and requires 130 total work hours. Work is conducted in French under the supervision of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Supports the Centre for International Policy Studies through conference and seminar note-taking, report and briefing-note drafting, research content production, information gathering and organization, and possible academic coordination with speakers. The role requires strong bilingual writing, synthesis, analytical, organizational, and deadline-management skills, along with an interest in public policy and international issues.

Assist the Jean Paul Dionne Symposium Student Planning Team with symposium planning and logistics, peer review, fundraising and marketing initiatives, and social media. The role requires independent work and collaboration with directors. Three positions are available for French, English, or bilingual French/English students in the Faculty of Education. Prior symposium experience is preferred, and students with financial obligations receive priority.

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.

Supports philanthropy fundraisers through prospect research, donor intelligence, stewardship, proposal development, and relationship-management administration. The role prepares prospect profiles, donor communications, reports, and impact updates; maintains accurate records in Raiser's Edge; tracks portfolio milestones and commitments; supports legacy giving; and improves research and stewardship processes. It collaborates with program, communications, business development, and international teams while handling sensitive donor information accurately and confidentially.

Build and scale secure automated patching infrastructure for open-source vulnerabilities. Develop Rust and Unix-based CLI tools, package-manager integrations, APIs, testing tools, and developer-facing remediation workflows. Debug ecosystem-specific issues, contribute to JavaScript, React, and TypeScript frontends, and collaborate with security researchers to deliver certified packages and high-quality patches at scale.

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.

Manages early-phase clinical research projects from initiation through closure, coordinating sponsors, sites, CRAs, vendors, and internal teams. Oversees site activation, recruitment, monitoring deliverables, regulatory documentation, training, budgets, timelines, quality, risk, and change control. Supports clinical monitoring, TMF inspection readiness, data review, study trackers, and dashboards while ensuring compliance with GCP, ICH, FDA, Canadian regulations, SOPs, and study requirements.

Supports digital marketing and patient recruitment campaigns by launching ads, monitoring KPIs, analyzing performance, updating study materials, coordinating sponsor revisions, and tracking deliverables. The role collaborates with internal teams, sponsors, and external partners while maintaining accurate campaign information and compliance-aligned content across multiple platforms.

Conduct original research on reliable agentic AI, developing methods for simulation, evaluation, optimization, regression control, and continuous learning. Analyze agent failures, traces, and human feedback; create experiments and prototypes; and translate research into production-facing systems. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to technical strategy, and provide rigorous experimental evidence. The role requires strong research depth, publication or open-source contributions, hands-on Python development, and expertise in LLM agents or agentic systems.

Assists with preparing grant applications, provides research support for a SSHRC project, and contributes to publications during the fall semester. The role requires 130 hours of work from September 21 through December 22, 2026, under faculty supervision.

Supports the planning, promotion, setup, delivery, and cleanup of feminist events at the University of Ottawa and off-campus locations. Responsibilities include food and refreshment setup, accessibility support, ticketing, registration, check-in, signage, materials, student outreach, social media promotion, and providing welcoming assistance to attendees. The role also performs other event-related logistical tasks as needed.

Creates a blog or similar publication about the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, focusing on Indigenous elements, Canadian Indigenous perspectives, environmental peacebuilding, and related themes. The role requires conference participation and involves 28 hours of work between September 21 and October 9, 2026.

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.

Develop signal processing algorithms for camera, LiDAR, radar, and other autonomous-driving sensor data. Design acquisition, fusion, filtering, and learning-based methods; optimize them for CPU, GPU, DSP, and specialized accelerators; and collaborate with autonomy and hardware teams to deliver reliable, low-latency production systems. The role also supports experimental validation and potential research publications.

Build infrastructure and software for training, deploying, scaling, monitoring, and operating machine-learning models and optimization algorithms for supply-chain applications. Responsibilities include translating supply-chain use cases into mathematical models, developing ML and optimization systems in C++ and Python, designing automated testing strategies, and supporting cloud or containerized workloads. The role also involves research into heuristics, optimization, GPU computing, MLOps, and AI-assisted software development.