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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The role involves designing and analyzing FEC for optical communication systems, collaborating with various teams, and improving design procedures using coding and signal processing technologies.

Assist faculty with desk-based research tracing networks and connections and produce research memos. Short-term (120 hours) position from Sept–Dec. Two openings; university mandatory training applies.

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.

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.

Conduct literature and internet research for a SSHRC-funded project on the white Afrikaner minority and the global radical right. Gather and analyze sources, support the supervising professor with research tasks over a fixed-term (120 hours). Fluency in English and strong analytical skills required; knowledge of South African politics desirable.

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.

Research and build efficient ML systems for large-scale LLMs and agentic RL: design algorithms and system techniques, prototype in training/inference stacks, run large-scale experiments, and translate findings into production or publications.

Conduct site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out visits to ensure protocol, regulatory and ICH/GCP compliance. Review source documents and CRFs, manage queries, investigational product handling, ISF/TMF reconciliation, documentation, and support audit readiness. Act as liaison with sites and sponsors, support recruitment/retention, and may train junior staff. Heavy travel (up to 75%).

The role involves designing scalable data pipelines for 3D, video, and sensor data, optimizing infrastructure, and productionizing ML models with researchers.

The research engineer will focus on solving the structure from motion problem, contributing to 3D reconstruction in various industries using AI.

The role focuses on refining Luma's foundation models for better controllability and personalization while collaborating across research, product, and design teams.

Seeking a Research Scientist/Engineer to design and optimize distributed training systems for large-scale multimodal AI models using thousands of GPUs.

The Research Engineer will design scalable evaluation systems for multimodal generative AI models, integrating metrics and automated pipelines for model assessment and improvement.

The role focuses on optimizing AI models for efficiency, involving GPU/CPU code profiling, high-performance programming, and developing performance tools.

The Research Scientist/Engineer will innovate algorithms for real-time adaptation, optimize ML systems, and ensure impactful product interactions.

The Research Scientist will develop models for natural hazards, evaluate scientific literature, clean data, and implement projects using Python and GIS tools.

Coordinate a CIHR-funded community-based longitudinal study: recruit and enroll participants, conduct behavioral observations and psychometric assessments, manage and verify data, track retention, support analyses and knowledge mobilization, liaise with clinicians and research team, and prepare reports and presentations.

Execute synthesis, place-and-route and STA for ASIC partitions from RTL to silicon. Collaborate with architects, RTL designers and DFT engineers to close EM/IR, LEC and physical verification signoff. Improve physical design methodologies (synthesis, PnR, EMIR, PDN), troubleshoot flows and work with EDA vendors to resolve issues while meeting tight schedules and low-power goals.

Support facial moisture product development through hands-on formulation, lab batching, stability testing, data analysis, technical documentation, and cross-functional collaboration to advance projects from development through commercialization while ensuring quality and regulatory compliance.