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.

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.

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.

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.

Conduct research on intergroup relations, attitudes, identity, and belonging in a Montreal neighborhood. Responsibilities include analyzing survey data, compiling census data, and analyzing interviews with neighborhood residents using quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Lead the Agentic AI Lab’s full-cycle research agenda, including model and training design, data, evaluation, benchmarking, deployment, and publication. Train specialized enterprise models, define rigorous evaluation gates, move research from public benchmarks to customer shadow deployments, and build a small multidisciplinary team. The role partners closely with founders and platform engineers while establishing research direction, documenting technical decisions, and mentoring engineers into researchers.

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 research coordination, literature reviews, data collection, analysis and processing, funding proposal preparation, collaboration with Indigenous partners, facilitation, mediation, community-of-practice participation, editing, and writing for a social work research project.

The Research Assistant will support program evaluation and reporting for the Startup Law Clinic and help draft a bilingual online Startup Legal Playbook covering common legal issues faced by startup founders. The role runs from October 1 through December 22, 2026, for 75 total hours, with potential renewal through March 31, 2027. Work is conducted in English and French under the supervision of the Common Law Section.

Conduct in-depth research and analysis on Canadian and international maritime regulations, practices, and policies within a geopolitical context. Develop recommendations to strengthen maritime transport in Canada, present findings at a likely March 2027 conference, refine recommendations afterward, and share them with government agencies and maritime organizations. The role requires legal research, policy analysis, effective communication, deadline management, and potential contract renewal through April 2027.

Conduct research for an AI-for-science benchmark by validating AI-generated paper reproductions, simulations, and results; mapping research areas; defining evaluation standards; creating benchmark tasks; and contributing to a publicly released paper and evaluation set as a lead or first author.

Conduct applied research on foundation models for real-time fraud detection using large-scale behavioral and sequential data. Design experiments, benchmarks, holdouts, and monitoring systems; develop models from data preparation through deployment; and optimize training and inference efficiency. Collaborate with engineering, client-facing teams, legal, compliance, and customers to productionize models and establish explainability, governance, and risk documentation.

Conducts qualitative research by designing studies, coding interview and focus group transcripts, verifying transcript accuracy, analyzing themes, and integrating qualitative findings with quantitative data. Maintains coding pipelines, refines codebooks, documents inter-rater reliability, prepares client-ready reports and visualizations, develops case study materials, and supports de-identified dataset construction. The role also contributes to proposals, client engagement, methodological strategy, and research deliverables.

Explore large-scale AI evaluation datasets, identify patterns, biases, and causal relationships, and design experiments to understand model behavior. Build reproducible analysis pipelines with Python, Pandas, NumPy, and Spark; develop statistical and causal inference frameworks; partner with ML researchers and engineers; and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsible for designing experiments to evaluate AI models, developing evaluation methodologies, analyzing performance data, and collaborating on production insights.

Coordinates clinical research site selection and feasibility activities, including identifying investigators, evaluating questionnaires, recommending sites, coordinating qualification visits, and tracking activities in a CTMS. Builds relationships with clinical research sites, supports site quality assessments, collaborates with sponsors and project teams, and contributes to departmental initiatives. Requires at least three years of clinical research experience, knowledge of good clinical practices and Health Canada and FDA guidelines, and strong English communication skills; French and dermatology experience are assets.

Tracks and reports project profitability, budgets, revenues, expenses, forecasts, invoicing, and financial variances. Configures projects and budgets in financial systems, prepares journal entries and project reports, supports audits, advises project teams on cost control, and coordinates financial reviews with project managers and clients. The role also identifies process improvements and ensures accurate project financial records and account reconciliations.

Teach an in-person undergraduate Market Research course covering exploratory, descriptive, and causal research methods, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, experiments, sampling, market data analysis, multivariate techniques, and applied topics. The instructor will review prerequisite statistics, demonstrate data analysis using SPSS, teach Qualtrics, and assess student learning. The course meets Thursdays from 7:00–10:00 p.m. during the Winter 2027 semester.

Supports budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cash-flow management, financial modeling, and recurring reporting across corporate and site-level cost centers. Builds dashboards and KPI tracking, maintains shared financial models, partners with operational and clinical leaders, and contributes to integrated P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow modeling. The role also helps automate reporting and establish FP&A processes and best practices.

Leads AI R&D initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, project scope, resources, schedules, risks, roadmaps, and requirements. Partners with the AI Director, coordinates teams across North America and Europe, removes delivery blockers, improves production processes, and maintains external partnerships. The role emphasizes team empowerment, Agile collaboration, communication, analytical problem-solving, and delivery of AI, research, or game-development projects.