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.

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.

Supports the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs with communications, outreach, and recruitment. Responsibilities include managing social media, drafting website and platform content, promoting programs and events, supporting student and partner engagement, organizing school activity information, and conducting short research projects on communications and engagement practices.

Conduct legal and scholarly research on access to justice for racialized students in human rights, complaint, and appeal processes at Ontario universities. Analyze tribunal and court decisions, university policies, and institutional documents; organize and code research materials; support comparative analysis; and assist with reports, conference materials, and scholarly publications. Participate in research meetings and training under the Principal Investigator’s supervision.

Conduct legal and scholarly research on access to justice for racialized students in university human rights, complaint, and appeal processes. Duties include analyzing tribunal and court decisions, reviewing university policies, coding research materials, supporting comparative analysis, and contributing to reports, conference materials, and publications under faculty supervision.

Conduct a literature review, contribute to research design and methodology development, and code qualitative data related to disaster studies. The position requires a PhD student with experience studying disasters and includes 45 hours of work during the Fall 2026 semester under faculty supervision.

Research Assistant will support a university research project on access to justice for racialized students in human rights, complaint, and appeal processes. Responsibilities include legal and scholarly research, analyzing tribunal and court decisions, reviewing university policies, coding research materials, comparative analysis, and assisting with reports, conference materials, and publications. The role requires participation in research meetings and training under principal investigator supervision.

Conduct secondary data collection, manage and analyze research data, translate materials from English to French, review French-language content, and participate in project meetings and events. The project focuses on equitable access to education and research opportunities for students and academics with lived experiences of forced migration in Canada.

Leads the drafting, review, negotiation, execution, and management of research contracts and agreements. Advises researchers and institutional stakeholders on contractual, financial, regulatory, intellectual property, privacy, research security, and risk matters. Coordinates approvals, post-award compliance, indirect costs, reporting, subcontracting, and contract handoffs. Improves processes and systems, delivers training, analyzes contracting trends, prepares strategic reports, and manages special projects involving research administration and institutional partnerships.

Review algorithm-generated trades across managed portfolios, resolve abnormal orders, and identify operational bottlenecks in managed accounts. Support daily portfolio management and trading workflows while collaborating with trading, investment operations, product, and engineering teams. Help improve trade execution processes, portfolio tracking, and operational risk communication.

Conducts data analysis, transcription, and document preparation for sociological and anthropological research at the University of Ottawa. The position runs from October 13 to December 18, 2026, for 130 total hours, and requires undergraduate student status. Work may be performed in English and French.

Develop and scale human iPSC-derived neuronal and rodent primary cell models for neurotechnology screening. Responsibilities include expanding and QCing iPSC lines, producing neuronal banks, maintaining long-term cultures, developing biochemical, imaging, and activity assays, troubleshooting and optimizing high-throughput workflows, documenting deviations, and maintaining audit-ready records. The role requires close cross-functional collaboration, precise experimental execution, and intermittent weekend laboratory work.

Supports clinical trial site start-up activities by forecasting submission timelines, preparing ethics and regulatory applications, collecting essential documents, resolving country-level issues, negotiating investigator contracts and budgets, and reviewing informed consent and patient documents. Ensures compliance with local regulations, ICH/GCP, ISO 14155, and sponsor requirements while working independently to meet quality and timeline expectations.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of ML and operations research systems powering delivery dispatch. Build pricing, quote selection, forecasting, routing, batching, fleet recommendation, LLM, optimization, evaluation, and MLOps capabilities. Translate operational constraints into reliable models and solver formulations, establish production ML standards, and mentor engineers. The role partners with Product and leadership to deliver measurable improvements in revenue, margin, utilization, conversion, and delivery reliability.

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

Leads translational and non-interventional biomarker studies in immunology, including protocol development, target validation, mechanism-of-action research, data analysis, and quality assurance. Provides scientific and strategic leadership across preclinical and clinical development, collaborates with internal and external research partners, supports regulatory and clinical documentation, and supervises research scientists. The role bridges preclinical research and early clinical development to inform therapeutic-area strategies and development decisions.

Conduct legal research and contribute to writing and updating Common Law texts for the “Common Law en Bref” project. The role requires familiarity with Canadian legal citation rules, enrollment in a University of Ottawa Faculty of Law program, and English and French work proficiency. The 75-hour contract runs from October 19 to December 22, 2026, with potential renewal through April 9, 2027.

Conducts remote and onsite clinical trial monitoring visits, including qualification, initiation, interim, and close-out visits. Ensures protocol, ICH GCP, FDA, regulatory, and sponsor SOP compliance; reviews source documents, CRF data, regulatory binders, and trial documentation. Manages site issues, adverse event reporting, investigational product accountability, recruitment oversight, audit preparation, and monitoring reports. Collaborates with sponsors, sites, CRAs, project managers, data management, and cross-functional teams while mentoring CRAs and supporting CTMS activities.

Conducts remote and onsite clinical trial monitoring visits, including site qualification, initiation, interim, and close-out visits. Ensures protocol, ICH GCP, FDA, and SOP compliance; verifies source data, manages regulatory documentation, tracks investigational products, supports adverse-event reporting, and resolves site issues. The role also assists with monitoring plans, budgets, training, audits, sponsor communication, CTMS activities, CRA mentoring, and cross-functional coordination.

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.

Conducts clinical trial site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and termination visits. Maintains site relationships, resolves issues, supports patient recruitment, protects participant safety, and ensures compliance with protocols, SOPs, GCP, and regulations. Reviews data quality, drug accountability, site performance, and regulatory documentation while generating visit reports and verifying study records. Requires at least 18 months of direct onsite CRA monitoring experience and fluency in English and French.

Teach a three-credit graduate course introducing quantitative research planning, analysis, and interpretation across experimental, quasi-experimental, observational, and mixed-method designs. Responsibilities include synchronous videoconference instruction during scheduled hours and applying information and communication technologies in teaching. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in education or a related field, demonstrate course expertise, have recent publications, and understand technology-supported teaching methods.

Coordinates health research grant programs, including application and award administration, peer review recruitment and meetings, records management, reporting, data analysis, policy updates, applicant support, and post-award handoffs. Maintains research systems and website content, prepares briefing materials, supports reviewers and volunteers, and serves as a key contact for applicants and research stakeholders.

Lead the design and deployment of large-scale bioinformatics and omics pipelines spanning genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Integrate multimodal biological data with machine learning, develop reproducible analysis frameworks, benchmark predictive models, and collaborate with wet-lab scientists to guide molecular engineering and experimental campaigns. Contribute novel computational biology algorithms, research roadmaps, and scientific leadership.

Conduct executive, industry, market, and company research to support leadership searches. Identify qualified executives, analyze competitive landscapes using LLMs, design AI prompts, develop research strategies and reports, maintain candidate and company database quality, and provide strategic insights across industries. The role requires managing multiple projects, synthesizing ambiguous information, collaborating with search professionals, and communicating findings clearly.