Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

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 Centre for International Policy Studies research by taking analytical notes at events, drafting reports and briefing notes, organizing research materials, and assisting with event coordination and content production. Bilingual (English/French) writing and synthesis expected.

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.

Provide administrative and program-support to the clinical program director, including compiling tables, communicating with faculty and students, assisting with program/policy initiatives, developing resources, and contributing to equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts.

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.

Perform site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management and close-out visits (on-site or remote) ensuring ICH-GCP/GPP and protocol compliance. Verify informed consent, perform source document review and CRF verification, manage investigational product inventory, reconcile ISF with TMF, document monitoring activities, support recruitment and audit readiness, liaise with sponsor and site staff, and may mentor junior CRAs or support RW late-phase activities.

Support sleep and circadian research by recruiting and screening participants, performing in-person data collection, managing and entering data, processing and analyzing datasets, and conducting advanced sleep and circadian-related analyses.

Operate and improve an in-house AAV vector core: run weekly AAV production from cell culture through purification, perform QC assays (titer, purity, genome integrity), maintain ELN lot records and inventories, follow and update SOPs, troubleshoot production issues, and coordinate handoffs with program teams to ensure consistent, high-quality vectors.

Support daily accounting, accounts payable/receivable, reconciliations, month-/year-end tasks, and financial reporting. Maintain documentation and accounting system data, participate in quality control, and assist with process improvement while learning accounting practices and internal controls.

Provide expert legal and business research to attorneys and staff using advanced research tools; advise on research strategy; manage research workflow; develop training, onboarding, newsletters, and intranet content; evaluate and recommend online resources; support continuous learning and Research Services initiatives.

Monitor and support the Financial Research and Learning Lab: supervise access and terminals, liaise with IT, assist users with software/databases, support events, maintain web/guides/social media, collect lab metrics, and assist with projects throughout the semester.

Provide administrative and confidential support to the school principal by managing the school office, personnel and student records, handling correspondence and communications, coordinating schedules and meetings, overseeing office staff and workflows, maintaining budgets/accounts, and responding to emergencies and stakeholder inquiries.

Lead and coordinate special education programs: curriculum development, program evaluation, staff development, IEP implementation, community relations, materials procurement, record keeping, candidate interviewing, and support for school improvement initiatives. Provide leadership, training, and outreach to ensure compliance and best practices for students with special needs.

Perform site qualification, initiation, monitoring (on-site or remote) and close-out to ensure ICH-GCP/GPP and protocol compliance. Verify informed consent, source documents, CRF data, IP handling, ISF/TMF reconciliation, and query resolution. Document activities, support recruitment/retention, prepare for audits, train/mentor junior CRAs, and manage site communications and timelines. May support Real-World Late Phase tasks including chart abstraction and country-level regulatory coordination.

Lead cross-functional global project teams for dermatology clinical programs, ensuring milestone delivery, budget and scope adherence, compliance with processes, client liaison and meeting leadership, support proposal/business development, and cultivate client relationships to drive future business.

As a Research Engineer, you will integrate ML models into planning stacks, develop testing interfaces, and collaborate with teams to enhance autonomous truck capabilities.

As a Research Engineer, you will develop algorithms for world models focusing on generative and predictive modeling within complex environments, optimizing model deployment, and collaborating with research teams.

As a Research Scientist, you will design AI technologies for motion planning in self-driving trucks, focusing on deep learning and seamless integration into production systems.

As a Research Engineer, you will develop and enhance AI algorithms for self-driving vehicles, collaborating with scientists to advance technology and support deployment in production systems.

Research Scientists at Waabi will lead AI projects to develop algorithms for self-driving technology, collaborate on solution deployment, and publish research at conferences.

Build and own a versioned, documented gold data layer from lakehouse silver tables for AI research. Transform, validate, and productize multi-modal datasets and pipelines (Databricks/PySpark) to support model development, evaluation, and production ML/LLM workflows while ensuring data quality, provenance, and regulatory controls.

Support user research for game products by recruiting participants, designing and analyzing surveys, conducting interviews and playtests, generating actionable player insights, collaborating with product teams, and tracking UX issues to inform game design and strategy.