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 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.

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.

Conduct internet-based research on defence policy, prepare and deliver a research report, assist with organizing a conference, attend meetings, communicate regularly with the supervisor, and report on progress. The position is a 60-hour research assistant role running from September 9 through October 31, 2026, in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Conducts online research to identify academic scholars whose expertise aligns with the Canadian Journal of Education. The assistant gathers, verifies, updates, and organizes reviewer information in a database; identifies expertise gaps; collaborates with journal editors; and supports related research and editorial tasks. Success requires strong information-search, database or spreadsheet, academic research, organizational, independent-work, collaboration, and English writing skills.

Assist a social sciences research team with data verification, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, table and graph creation, report preparation, and team meetings. The position runs from September 2 through December 16, 2026, for 130 total hours. Graduate student status is required, with work conducted in English and French at the University of Ottawa’s main campus.

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.

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.

Conduct literature reviews, enter references into EndNote, write article summaries, and prepare a research report on suicidism and related oppression. 130 hours from Sept–Dec; remote work allowed. Requires bilingualism and a Master's in Social Work.

Support economics research through coding and data analysis (R, Stata, oTree), LaTeX document preparation, and LLM-assisted text classification. Work ~130 hours between Sept 7 and Dec 6 under supervisor Isabelle Salle.

Perform bibliographic research using social science databases, produce annotated bibliographies, complete research templates, participate in regular project meetings, and perform descriptive data analysis for a criminology research project.

Perform internet-based research on NATO and related international documents; prepare and deliver a research report; assist organizing a conference; attend regular meetings, communicate with supervisor, and report progress. Continental language skills are an asset.

Coordinate and monitor research projects, support major grant applications, manage budgets and administrative operations, liaise with partners, organize events, maintain communications and documentation, and support centre strategic priorities under the director's supervision.

Assist with a scoping review by performing title, abstract, and full-text screening using Covidence, pilot-testing inclusion/exclusion criteria, attending research team meetings, and participating in data analysis as needed. 80 hours of work on Main Campus between Sept 7 and Nov 7, 2026.

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.

Short-term research assistant to support the creation of a special issue. Duties include editorial and research support as negotiated with the supervising professor. Position runs September 1–28, 2026 for 38.5 hours, English work language.

Support faculty research by preparing grant materials and publications, conducting literature reviews, performing data analysis, and contributing to academic writing. 180-hour short-term appointment (Sept 14, 2026–Jan 5, 2027). Suitable for Master's or PhD students. Work performed on main campus in English.

The Senior Editor, Research & Intelligence will gather and analyze audience insights to shape content and strategy, driving measurable growth and improving audience engagement through insight-driven recommendations and reporting.

Create and merge longitudinal Canadian worker datasets using restricted-access uOttawa RDC data, clean and analyze the panel, and develop reproducible R scripts. Meet with supervising professors to document progress and request guidance. Work totals 130 hours between Sept 1 and Dec 22, 2026.

Support Centre for International Policy Studies research by taking analytical notes at events, drafting reports and briefing notes, organizing research materials, and assisting with event coordination and content production. Bilingual (English/French) writing and synthesis expected.

Bridge frontier multimodal research and product by shaping research priorities, interpreting evaluations, building prototypes, and defining research-to-product handoffs across Canvas, Agents, and the model platform to deliver enterprise-facing features.

Work across modeling, data, systems, and evaluation to make video foundation models expressive, controllable, and personalized. Build adaptation and personalization pipelines, define end-user quality metrics and evaluations, and collaborate with product and design to deploy production-ready model variants for creative partners.

The role focuses on advancing AI voice agents through research in LLMs and audio models. Responsibilities include model prototyping, evaluation, and collaboration with engineering to bridge research and production systems.

Lead applied research on continual learning, fast adaptation, memory, and transfer learning for agentic systems. Own end-to-end pipeline from data generation to evaluation and product integration, run experiments, produce code, and drive research strategy while mentoring and managing a small team.

Lead applied research on spatial reasoning, geometric and physical world modeling. Own data generation, evaluation, and product integration. Implement experiments, build production code, and drive research strategy in 3D, multimodal, simulation, and related domains.