Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

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.

Analyze verbatim focus-group transcripts for a consultation on the Francophonie and draft methodology sections. The role requires 65 hours of work from November 11 to December 18, 2026, and bilingual English-French communication. Graduate student status is required.

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.

Supports the Canadian Journal of Education by updating and maintaining an Anglophone peer-reviewer database, verifying academic profiles and expertise, identifying suitable reviewers, and conducting scholarly database searches. The role also assists with a literature review, grant application budgeting, and liaison with partner organizations. Responsibilities require confidentiality, independent work, strong organization, educational research knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Excel.

Assists with editing the second edition of a counseling social justice book, including administrative coordination, editorial work, literature reviews, chapter framing, proofing, indexing, promotion, grant application support, budgeting, and partner liaison. Requires strong APA formatting, research organization, collaboration, attention to detail, and timely task completion. Counseling psychology coursework or related experience is an asset.

Coordinates logistics for two bilingual workshops, including room and catering bookings, audiovisual and IT support, participant registration, communications, AI-mediated translation setup, website updates, volunteer coordination, on-site assistance, note-taking, and tracking tasks, timelines, and event budgets.

Supports workshop presenters, mentorship coordination, research data management, and knowledge mobilization activities. Responsibilities include maintaining a mentorship database, matching participants with mentors, taking workshop notes, providing feedback on research and policy products, compiling bilingual written and video proceedings for publication, and assisting with related project tasks. The role requires doctoral enrollment, bilingual English-French capability, strong writing and editing skills, organization, reliability, and in-person availability for both workshops.

Assist a Faculty of Education professor with preparing a grant application, including drafting detailed descriptions and conducting additional analysis of existing datasets. The position involves 95 hours of research support between November 15, 2026, and January 31, 2027, on the University of Ottawa main campus.

The Research Assistant will support a Faculty of Education professor with literature reviews, grant application preparation, budgeting, and liaison with partner organizations. The position involves 75 hours of work from November 15, 2026, through January 31, 2027, at the University of Ottawa’s Main Campus. Work is conducted in English under the CUPE 2626 agreement.

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.

Conduct biochemical and cell-based experiments to understand and engineer protein complex assembly for neural activity readouts. Responsibilities include protein expression and purification, complex reconstitution, mammalian cell assays, variant characterization, experimental analysis, documentation, and inventory management. The role also supports assay development, molecular biology, high-throughput screening, and collaborative hypothesis generation.

Leads Agility’s media research team and owns the accuracy, organization, freshness, and compliance of its journalist and outlet database. Establishes research standards, verification processes, categorization systems, and data quality metrics; tracks newsroom changes and enriches profiles with outreach intelligence. Partners with Product Development on AI-powered research automation, and collaborates with Customer Success, Sales Enablement, Marketing, and leadership. Hires and develops researchers while supporting client education and journalist data requests.

The tenure-track Canada Research Chair will lead an internationally recognized research program on law and urban governance, teach law, supervise graduate students, secure external funding, build interdisciplinary and community partnerships, and contribute academic service. Candidates must demonstrate exceptional legal scholarship, graduate teaching experience, research funding success, interdisciplinary collaboration, and French-language proficiency, with passive or active English knowledge required for tenure.

Supports an educational program for high school students focused on access to justice and technology in legal services. Responsibilities include drafting a legal scenario for program modules and supporting adoption in schools. The assistant will conduct academic research and writing while collaborating with a supervising law professor and nonprofit partner.

Supports an educational program for high school students focused on access to justice and technology in legal services. Responsibilities include drafting a legal scenario for program modules and supporting adoption in schools. The role requires academic legal research and writing, collaboration with a nonprofit partner, and interest in technology’s impact on the legal system. The position is based at the University of Ottawa and includes 60 hours of work from November 11 through December 31, 2026.

Conduct empirical AI safety research with mentor guidance, owning projects from hypotheses and controlled experiments through analysis and technical writing. Build and debug evaluation harnesses, agent environments, datasets, monitoring methods, and post-training experiments. Investigate model failures, alignment, deception, misuse, multi-agent risks, and evaluation reliability. Produce reproducible code, experiment logs, research analyses, and papers for potential submission to leading machine learning conferences.

Conduct 65 hours of psychology research during the Winter 2027 semester in a university research laboratory or facility. Successful applicants will be matched with research lab positions based on their interests and will gain experience relevant to future research employment and graduate applications. Applicants must be eligible undergraduate psychology students meeting specified academic, course, identity, and employment requirements.

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.