Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

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 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.

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.

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.

Support the Director in building partnerships and advancing evidence-based public policy. Provide policy analysis, advise researchers and administrators, coordinate outreach, events, and knowledge mobilization to influence Canadian policy and unlock research and funding opportunities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lead a three-month evidence review and synthesis on livelihoods interventions and provider organizations. Define impact metrics and an evidence-levels framework, review studies for ~20 organizations, synthesize what works and why, incorporate findings into a cost-effectiveness model, and help draft a decision memo recommending whether to launch a new fund. Work closely with Prevail's research team and contribute independent, judgment-driven analysis.

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.

Perform bibliographic research, develop a searchable bibliography, and write concise text summaries. Work 130 hours between September and December using Endnote, Philosopher's Index, Word, and Excel under a supervising professor.

Support a study on counselling self-efficacy among psychotherapy trainees: manage Qualtrics data collection, ensure data integrity, score validated instruments, perform advanced longitudinal and multilevel analyses (R), and contribute to manuscripts and conference presentations.

Provide literature review, assist with data collection, help plan and coordinate conferences/workshops, and support publication and copywriting for an ethnographic SSHRC-funded study on labour and livability in Tokyo.

Conduct exhaustive literature and regulatory reviews, analyze quantitative and qualitative human factors data, design and administer surveys, support flight-simulator data collection, perform technical writing and editing, and compile findings into structured technical reports.

Build and scale core research infrastructure and agentic systems across backend, frontend, and model integrations. Own reliability, observability, and performance; ship research-proven features to production rapidly and develop shared tools and SDKs to accelerate Research, QA, and Engineering.

Work directly with physicists to drive adoption of an AI research platform: own user lifecycle from discovery to retention, design onboarding and scalable workflows, build guides and tooling, identify UX friction, and act as a technical point of contact while partnering with research and engineering.

The role involves designing and implementing machine learning systems for knowledge representation and temporal reasoning, focusing on organizational intelligence. Responsibilities include building LLM-powered pipelines, developing memory algorithms, and researching various ML techniques.

The Senior CRA ensures quality site management and monitoring of clinical trials, addressing protocol-related issues while maintaining compliance and investigator relations.

Execute and troubleshoot mammalian cell culture and molecular biology workflows (cloning, nucleic acid prep, RNA assays). Produce and deploy viral vectors (lentiviral, AAV), perform CRISPR genome editing and perturbation screens, develop cell-based assays and phenotypic readouts, support mouse studies and tissue processing, maintain ELN documentation and SOPs, and generate high-quality data for target identification and therapeutic validation.

Lead the development of advanced satellite capabilities for defence, overseeing research, technology integration, and collaboration across teams to address evolving operational needs.

Lead a team of researchers to define and execute high-impact research programs bridging ML, scientific domains, and product. Shape hypotheses, experiments, models, data strategy, evaluations, and implementations while mentoring researchers and driving research into validated, reusable capabilities and deployed systems.