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.

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.

Short-term research assistant to support the creation of a special issue. Duties include editorial and research support as negotiated with the supervising professor. Position runs September 1–28, 2026 for 38.5 hours, English work language.

Support faculty research by preparing grant materials and publications, conducting literature reviews, performing data analysis, and contributing to academic writing. 180-hour short-term appointment (Sept 14, 2026–Jan 5, 2027). Suitable for Master's or PhD students. Work performed on main campus in English.

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.

Create and merge longitudinal Canadian worker datasets using restricted-access uOttawa RDC data, clean and analyze the panel, and develop reproducible R scripts. Meet with supervising professors to document progress and request guidance. Work totals 130 hours between Sept 1 and Dec 22, 2026.

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.

Build and own ML infrastructure for distributed training, inference, experiment tracking, model registries, and CI/CD. Enable active-learning and closed-loop optimization, collaborate with computational scientists, and mentor colleagues to translate research prototypes to production-grade systems.

Remote, contract equity research role requiring at least 2 years' experience at top firms. Analyze and extract information from public SEC filings. Minimum 10 hours/week for at least four weeks. Independent-contractor engagement with weekly payments via Stripe or Wise. U.S./Canada-based applicants only; no H-1B or STEM OPT sponsorship.

Manage site relationships and monitor clinical trials to ensure participant safety and data integrity per ICH GCP, regulatory requirements, and sponsor/SOPs. Conduct site selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits (onsite or remote), support regulatory submissions and TMF/CTMS maintenance, drive recruitment, report study progress, escalate issues, and assist project managers to ensure timely study execution.

Lead development of scalable molecular dynamics pipelines, integrating physics-based models with machine learning frameworks to enhance molecular engineering and experimentations.

As a Research Associate at Merge Labs, you will conduct experiments in molecular biology, protein biochemistry, cell biology, and neuroscience, while collaborating across disciplines to advance core biological research and build experimental capabilities.

The role involves designing de novo frameworks for molecular engineering, collaborating across teams to optimize data-driven biological experiments and integrating ML models with experimental systems.

As a Research Engineer in Sensor Simulation, you will develop multi-sensor rendering systems for self-driving technologies, collaborate with scientists and engineers, and work on innovative solutions using machine learning and neural rendering techniques.

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.

Partner with People Operations to support employees across Canada and the U.S. Manage onboarding, offboarding, HRIS and benefits administration, employee relations, leave and compliance. Prepare workforce reports, drive process improvements using HR technology and AI, support audits and strategic projects, and provide backup recruitment support while building cross-functional relationships to deliver excellent employee experiences.

Lead development and governance of Canopy's data, research, and knowledge systems. Coordinate cross-team research, establish data quality and provenance standards, oversee dashboards/maps/calculators and AI-enabled workflows, translate technical research for non-specialists, and manage internal staff plus external researchers to support reports, decision tools, and thought leadership.

Support design and execution of retrospective and prospective real-world evidence studies, conduct literature reviews and qualitative research, analyze and interpret real-world data, develop protocols, reports, manuscripts, and client presentations, and use Microsoft Office and statistical software to produce high-quality deliverables under senior guidance.

Support development of tokenized equity products by conducting due diligence, building financial and commercial models, performing market and competitor research, preparing committee memos and presentations, tracking ECM activity, and owning research workstreams through transaction execution.

Founding research hire to develop clinical reasoning and computer-use models using proprietary hospital and clinic data. Own end-to-end training and evaluation pipelines, design benchmarks exposing LLM weaknesses on clinical reasoning, run experiments, and publish technical reports and papers. Collaborate closely with founders and deploy research into products that improve physician workflows.