Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

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.

Conduct literature searches and reviews in English and French, summarize and synthesize academic articles, organize references, maintain bibliographic databases, and support additional research tasks. The role is primarily remote with occasional campus meetings and requires independent work, strong bilingual communication, and deadline management.

Collects court decisions and media coverage, conducts legal research, and codes research materials for a University of Ottawa criminology project examining forensic kits in sexual assault legal proceedings in Quebec. The role requires 60 hours of work between January 10 and February 20, 2027, in French.

Provides timely, accurate, confidential, and non-partisan reference services to Canadian parliamentarians in person, by phone, and by email. Conducts in-depth research using print and electronic sources, provides written responses, instructs clients on library resources, and supports presentations and outreach. Maintains expertise in parliamentary affairs, library systems, collections, and information services. The role requires bilingual communication, client focus, analytical thinking, teamwork, and successful security screening.

Conduct participant engagement and data collection, perform literature searches and reviews, develop and maintain ethics protocols, manage research data and protocols, conduct dyadic data analyses, and draft manuscripts in English. The research focuses on chronic pelvic pain, patient autonomy, and sexual health.

Conducts research on health care utilization in minority-language settings. Responsibilities include developing empirical analysis plans, performing econometric and statistical analyses, interpreting results, preparing tables and figures, and drafting preliminary findings and research reports using administrative or survey data.

Conducts academic research on intersectionality, anti-Black racism, migration, solidarity, and intercultural intervention. Responsibilities include co-authoring a book chapter, organizing public discussions, translating research materials into English, and producing a literature review. The role requires independent work, data organization, critical analysis, and knowledge of intercultural and anti-racist intervention. English and French are the working languages; knowledge of irregular migration in Morocco is an asset.

Conducts research on electricity consumption, air quality, and heat pump energy-use data. Responsibilities include data analysis, writing and editing, and constructing a theoretical model. The position is based at the University of Ottawa during the 2027 winter semester, with 120 total work hours.

Conduct research in macroeconomics and labor markets, including data work, literature reviews, coding, statistical analysis, and assistance with labor-market dynamics research projects. The role requires a strong economics background, particularly in macroeconomics or labor economics. Experience with Stata, R, MATLAB, or Python is preferred. The position involves 130 hours of work from January through April 2027.

Coordinate logistics for two bilingual workshops, including room bookings, catering, audiovisual and IT support. Manage participant registration and communications, configure AI-mediated translation, update the project website, coordinate volunteers, provide on-site event support, take notes, and track tasks, timelines, and budgets.

Supports workshop development, mentorship coordination, participant matching, session note-taking, feedback on research data management and knowledge mobilization plans, and bilingual publication of workshop proceedings. The assistant also supports additional research project tasks and must attend both workshops in person.

Leads the University of Ottawa’s international research portfolio, strategy, partnerships, agreements, funding opportunities, events, and institutional initiatives. Advises the Vice-President, Research and Innovation; represents the university with international stakeholders; manages staff and administrative operations; supports international postgraduate recruitment; and promotes the university’s global research reputation. The role requires extensive academic research administration experience, bilingual French-English communication, strategic leadership, and a PhD.

Manages the university’s Research Chairs portfolio, including strategic planning, recruitment, proposal development, institutional reporting, and funding allocation. Advises senior research leadership, faculty administrators, and researchers on competitive chair nominations, funding requirements, EDI targets, and research priorities. Builds partnerships and networks, monitors funding trends, and recommends initiatives to improve research competitiveness and chair funding success.

Leads qualitative research projects from proposal through delivery, including moderation, client account management, fieldwork, project profitability, proposals, and insight storytelling. Oversees quality, manages multiple projects and vendors, advises clients on research strategy and technology use, and mentors team members. The role requires frequent US travel from Ontario, strong qualitative and quantitative research knowledge, senior client leadership, commercial awareness, and expertise in translating findings into actionable narratives.

Conduct life sciences research supporting advanced AI evaluation. Create rigorous scientific problems, develop reproducible Python analyses and simulations, process biological datasets, validate computational results, review scientific reasoning and code, identify methodological errors, apply statistical techniques, and document findings clearly. The role requires strong practical Python skills alongside advanced education and research experience in biology, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, neuroscience, genetics, computational biology, or related fields.

Lead technical design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions for Citco’s Fund Services transformation program. Integrate AWS, cloud data platforms, Sigma, UiPath, Databricks, machine learning models, LLMs, and conversational AI. Establish MLOps, CI/CD, security, responsible AI, and production-readiness standards while owning solution lifecycles. Lead proofs of concept, mentor developers, oversee monitoring and support, and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.

Conducts clinical trial site monitoring to protect participants, verify accurate and complete data, ensure protocol and ICH GCP compliance, manage investigational drug accountability, support recruitment, maintain trial documentation and systems, prepare monitoring reports, resolve issues, and coordinate with sites, sponsors, regulatory teams, and project managers.

Conduct adversarial research against anti-bot and web fingerprinting systems, reverse engineer defenses, build and improve HTTP client solutions and machine-learning data collection methods to scale Bright Data's web data collection platform.

Leads strategy, discovery, roadmap planning, execution, and adoption across multiple AI-enabled B2B SaaS products. Owns customer outcomes, requirements, prioritization, experimentation, launch readiness, and cross-functional coordination. Partners with engineering on architecture, security, privacy, reliability, auditability, and AI quality. Engages customers and executives, mentors product teams, evaluates investments, and develops reusable product practices. Requires production AI/LLM experience, technical fluency, regulated-industry exposure, and entrepreneurial judgment.

Develop and characterize neuronal models for ultrasound-based molecular actuation. Responsibilities include maintaining primary, stem cell-derived, and brain slice cultures; performing transfections and viral transductions; conducting microscopy and cell-based assays; troubleshooting experiments; developing protocols; documenting results; and collaborating with molecular biology, neuroscience, engineering, and in vivo research teams.

Build, update, and review three-statement financial models for publicly traded companies. Develop sector expertise, improve modeling standards and dashboards, document best practices, conduct company research, support client service, contribute to product improvements, and train new team members. The role requires strong financial modeling, Excel, research, accounting, deadline management, and communication skills.

Develop production-grade optimization models and services for workforce planning, scheduling, forecasting, and resource allocation. Use OR-Tools/CP-SAT and mathematical programming to convert business rules into scalable constraint models. Validate solution quality, performance, accuracy, and stability; integrate optimization engines into enterprise platforms; and collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, and workforce-management stakeholders.

Lead end-to-end pilot audits of frontier AI safety and security claims, including scoping, evidence review, interviews, analysis, risk management, stakeholder coordination, and report drafting. Refine audit methodologies and internal processes with the Standards Director while managing confidential information and contracted specialists. The role is fully remote, with travel at least twice per quarter.

Own the full lifecycle of novel subsurface imaging hardware, including mechanical and electrical system design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and remote deployment. Integrate instrumentation and data streams with exploration systems, support field commissioning, manage vendors and contractors, and contribute to hardware architecture, product planning, and development processes. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and geoscientists to create reliable datasets for mineral exploration and machine learning applications.