Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

The role involves researching and developing large language models (LLMs) with a focus on transformer architecture, data curation, distributed training, and optimization. Responsibilities include conducting experiments, collaborating with teams, and staying updated on deep learning advancements.

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.

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.

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.

Perform bibliographic research, develop a searchable bibliography, and write concise text summaries. Work 130 hours between September and December using Endnote, Philosopher's Index, Word, and Excel under a supervising professor.

Support a study on counselling self-efficacy among psychotherapy trainees: manage Qualtrics data collection, ensure data integrity, score validated instruments, perform advanced longitudinal and multilevel analyses (R), and contribute to manuscripts and conference presentations.

Provide literature review, assist with data collection, help plan and coordinate conferences/workshops, and support publication and copywriting for an ethnographic SSHRC-funded study on labour and livability in Tokyo.

Lead the development of advanced satellite capabilities for defence, overseeing research, technology integration, and collaboration across teams to address evolving operational needs.

Support a research project on green procurement and firm innovation. Tasks include data collection, cleaning, producing descriptive figures, assisting regression analysis, organizing code and raw data, preparing replication packages, and copy-editing manuscripts.

Support the UnborderED project by performing secondary data collection, managing and analyzing data, translating and reviewing French materials, and participating in meetings and events to support research on forced migration.

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.

Conduct technology research and scanning across emerging domains, analyze trends and impacts, and produce briefs, dashboards, reports and presentations. Maintain research records, dashboards and knowledge repositories, support enterprise architecture and decision-making, and assist with external research coordination and continuous improvement of research processes.

Support research on chronic pelvic pain: recruit and engage participants, collect and manage data, conduct literature reviews, maintain ethics protocols, perform data analyses (dyadic), and help draft manuscripts in English.

Prepare the online edition of the Political Dictionary of Quebec's Municipal Scene and create bilingual promotional visual materials. Work includes content preparation, editing, and graphic design tasks under faculty supervision for a short-term research appointment.

Assist Professor Paul Robinson researching historical and contemporary Russian defeatism by locating and collecting materials (digital newspapers, social media, websites), organizing datasets, and conducting additional research as the project develops. Must read Russian and manage collected materials for accessibility and research relevance.

Assist faculty with analysis of electricity consumption data, develop and write/edit a theoretical model, and perform research tasks as agreed. Work runs September–December for 130 hours, reporting to a supervising professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The successful candidate will conduct research in experimental cellular and systems biophysics, focusing on neural and cardiac cells and their interconnections, and drive innovative collaborations for health advancements.

Lead an interdisciplinary research program investigating mechanistic interactions in psychosis using neuroimaging, computational psychiatry, AI/ML, and multimodal data integration; supervise trainees, obtain external funding, teach, and translate discoveries into precision psychiatry and patient-centred care.

The Senior Research Associate supports research in cellular rejuvenation by executing laboratory experiments, developing techniques, and training others while contributing results to multiple projects.

Lead full-chip DFT architecture and implementation including scan, compression, MBIST/BIST, ATPG vector generation, gate-level verification, and silicon debug. Collaborate with STA, physical design, memory compiler, and test teams to ensure production-ready silicon with high test coverage and diagnostic capability, and support bring-up and debug on silicon.

Lead marketing initiatives at Whetstone Research, create digital content, manage contributors, and prioritize strategies in blockchain and crypto.

Lead long-horizon R&D to define future decision intelligence: explore reasoning architectures, prototype and formalize system primitives, evaluate new signal classes, and translate research into reusable components aligned to strategic product direction.

Build and maintain experimental decision-system prototypes, evaluation tooling, simulation environments, and research infrastructure to enable rapid iteration and validation of research concepts in real-world constraints.

Apply formal decision theory and structured reasoning to enterprise problems: design decision frameworks, model uncertainty and tradeoffs, test decision architectures, run experiments, and translate research into system-ready primitives collaborating with engineering and product teams.