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.

Lead Cayenta’s AI-centric R&D transformation, running R&D P&L, modernizing a legacy enterprise product, embedding AI across development practices, and leading a 70-person engineering organization while partnering with executives to deliver measurable revenue or cost impact.

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.

Support sleep and circadian research by recruiting and screening participants, performing in-person data collection, managing and entering data, processing and analyzing datasets, and conducting advanced sleep and circadian-related analyses.

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.

The role involves designing and analyzing FEC for optical communication systems, collaborating with various teams, and improving design procedures using coding and signal processing technologies.

Assist faculty with desk-based research tracing networks and connections and produce research memos. Short-term (120 hours) position from Sept–Dec. Two openings; university mandatory training applies.

Lead quantitative research projects end-to-end, design proposals, analyze large datasets, prepare reports and presentations, advise clients strategically, mentor junior staff, support business development, and manage account-level client relationships.

Develop perceptual features for MR/AR experiences, establish image quality metrics, and research algorithms for light estimation and virtual object rendering.

Conduct careful information retrieval and research to develop tasks for training and benchmarking frontier AI models. Leverage web-enabled LLM research tooling, validate sources, cross-reference claims, and communicate findings and uncertainties clearly in synchronous and asynchronous settings. Contract role, ~20 hours/week for one month with possible extension.

Conduct research to evaluate and improve forecasting and agentic LLM web research. Formulate open problems, devise innovative solutions, build evaluations, benchmarks, and datasets, publish findings, and collaborate with frontier labs to improve AI epistemics and decision-making.

The AI Research Engineer will design, implement, and improve AI systems for therapy, enhance evaluation methods, and collaborate with various teams to innovate and ensure safety in AI therapy.

Manage and audit product catalog data across e-commerce platforms and CMS, optimize listings for SEO and platform rules, correct listing errors, support taxonomy and attribute structures, analyze catalog performance, and collaborate with marketing and design to improve digital merchandising.

The Project Manager II is responsible for managing clinical trials, overseeing project resources, ensuring compliance with SOPs, and maintaining communication with stakeholders.

Design and execute molecular biology and immunology preclinical studies (2D/3D cell models) to evaluate oral, digestive, and allergy product effects. Lead development of predictive assays and biomarker analyses, manage BSL-2 lab work, collaborate cross-functionally, protect IP, and communicate results via presentations and publications.

Lead and manage the firm's research function and Research Analyst team to deliver timely, accurate legal, business, and competitive intelligence. Oversee intake, triage, quality review, tool adoption, vendor/subscription coordination, documentation, metrics/reporting, and cross‑functional partnerships to support attorneys and firm initiatives while improving processes and ensuring continuity.

Accountable for monitoring and managing assigned oncology clinical trial sites to ensure compliance with ICH/GCP, sponsor SOPs and local regulations. Serves as primary site contact, conducts remote and on-site visits, maintains CTMS/eTMF records, supports site selection and start-up, resolves site performance and compliance issues, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Requires substantial domestic and international travel.

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.

Remote contract role applying equity research expertise to train and evaluate AI models. Review AI-generated financial analyses, analyze SEC filings and financial statements, create evaluation tasks and structured datasets, and collaborate with AI researchers to improve financial reasoning and assessment criteria. Minimum 2 years equity research experience; 10 hours/week minimum commitment.

12-16 week internship implementing and optimizing GPU/accelerator kernels and custom operators, profiling and improving LLM inference and runtime performance, building benchmarks, fixing regressions, and shipping code to production or open-source AI infra projects.

Conduct literature and internet research for a SSHRC-funded project on the white Afrikaner minority and the global radical right. Gather and analyze sources, support the supervising professor with research tasks over a fixed-term (120 hours). Fluency in English and strong analytical skills required; knowledge of South African politics desirable.

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.

Research and build efficient ML systems for large-scale LLMs and agentic RL: design algorithms and system techniques, prototype in training/inference stacks, run large-scale experiments, and translate findings into production or publications.

Conduct site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out visits to ensure protocol, regulatory and ICH/GCP compliance. Review source documents and CRFs, manage queries, investigational product handling, ISF/TMF reconciliation, documentation, and support audit readiness. Act as liaison with sites and sponsors, support recruitment/retention, and may train junior staff. Heavy travel (up to 75%).