Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

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.

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.

Advises faculty researchers on project development, budgets, resources, funding applications, and grant requirements. Tracks funding opportunities, supports interinstitutional initiatives, develops research administration processes, and leads workshops. Promotes research achievements through awards, media, and public outreach. Conducts research trend analysis and prepares reports for strategic planning. Manages special projects, partnerships, and relationships with researchers, granting agencies, university units, and external organizations.

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.

Develop and optimize supply-chain algorithms by translating real-world problems into mathematical models. Lead C++ implementation, investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, and create comprehensive functional, regression, performance, unit, and integration tests. Collaborate with agile teams and stakeholders while improving software quality, development speed, and platform capabilities. Experience with commercial mathematical solvers, data structures, algorithms, and AI-assisted development is valued.

Assists with a Vista Grant application in French and English, collaborates with investigators, and applies prior stakeholder experience in experiential learning through CDEL and the Faculty of Education Methods Lab. The position involves 130 hours of research support from September 15 through December 22, 2026.

Leads research operations, clinical trials, governance, ethics and regulatory processes, quality assurance, budgets, contracts, compliance, and performance reporting. Develops sustainable research infrastructure, expands clinical trial access, and builds partnerships with investigators, academic institutions, sponsors, industry partners, and research networks. Oversees strategic planning, multi-site initiatives, operational policies, and research performance while representing the organization in external collaborations.

Conduct a literature review of South Korean social policies since 1992, covering relevant ministries and agencies, their budgets, population aging, and policy responses debated in South Korea. The role requires advanced comprehension of written Korean and a master’s degree in political science. The position involves 130 hours of research work during the Fall 2026 semester.

The HR Generalist supports employees across Canada and the U.S. throughout the employee lifecycle. Responsibilities include onboarding, offboarding, HRIS and employee records management, benefits and leave administration, employee relations, workplace investigations, compliance, reporting, manager coaching, and process improvement. The role also supports audits, policies, organizational projects, and occasional talent acquisition activities while using HR technology, automation, and AI tools to improve workflows.

Research Engineer developing and extending algorithms for large-scale unsupervised learning and perception problems. Responsibilities include maintaining deep learning experimentation tools, researching novel AI approaches, and deploying algorithms to internal and customer autonomous vehicle platforms. The role requires collaboration with software and autonomous vehicle engineers, rapid experimentation, and practical delivery of customer projects.