Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Manages, monitors, and closes assigned clinical trial sites, ensuring patient safety, protocol compliance, data quality, regulatory adherence, and timely study delivery. Responsibilities include site relationship management, recruitment support, onsite and remote monitoring, adverse event follow-up, investigational product oversight, issue resolution, audit and CAPA support, reporting, and database release. The role also mentors clinical research associates, supports site activation and feasibility activities, and participates in process improvement initiatives.

Manages, monitors, and closes assigned clinical trial sites from initiation through database lock. Ensures patient safety, protocol compliance, data quality, regulatory adherence, recruitment progress, investigational product accountability, and timely issue resolution. Serves as the primary site contact, conducts onsite and remote monitoring, supports audits and CAPA activities, trains site personnel, resolves data queries, and collaborates with investigators, vendors, drug safety teams, and study stakeholders. The role also mentors Clinical Research Associates and contributes to process improvement initiatives.

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.

Teach an in-person undergraduate Market Research course covering exploratory, descriptive, and causal research methods, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, experiments, sampling, market data analysis, multivariate techniques, and applied topics. The instructor will review prerequisite statistics, demonstrate data analysis using SPSS, teach Qualtrics, and assess student learning. The course meets Thursdays from 7:00–10:00 p.m. during the Winter 2027 semester.

Supports the organization, communication, and mobilization of research findings and knowledge from the CRECS community. The role is based on the University of Ottawa main campus during the Fall 2026 semester, requires 130 total hours, and involves working in English and French under faculty supervision.

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.

Research Assistant contributing to the writing and updating of legal texts for the University of Ottawa’s “Common Law en Bref” project. The role requires enrollment in a Faculty of Law program and familiarity with Canadian legal citation rules. Work is conducted in English and French over 75 hours during the Fall 2026 semester, with potential renewal through April 9, 2027.

Leads daily operations at the Ottawa clinical research site, managing staff schedules, workloads, training, investigator relationships, recruitment, enrollment, documentation, compliance, monitoring visits, audits, and process improvement. Supports participant care and study procedures, including vitals, ECGs, phlebotomy, and sample processing when trained and delegated.

Conduct legal research on language rights in Canada and Ontario, focusing on the constitutional framework for official languages and relevant case law. Apply legal research tools and the McGill Guide, and produce high-quality legal writing in both French and English. The position requires 130 hours during the Fall 2026 semester and continuation work during the Winter term, requiring a separate application.

Collect court decisions and media coverage, conduct legal research, and code research materials for a criminology project examining forensic kits in sexual assault legal proceedings in Quebec. The role requires using legal search engines and Excel, with 60 total hours of work between September 20 and October 31, 2026.

Provides administrative, clerical, coordination, and technical support for research projects. Responsibilities include managing files, scheduling meetings and study subjects, communicating with participants and project staff, processing samples and data, preparing research documents, maintaining databases, supporting grant applications, updating accounting records, processing purchase orders, and assisting with project communications.

Supports clinical psychology research through EMR data entry and analysis, database maintenance, progress monitoring, technical support, user coaching, and development of a clinical research database. Provides assistance with clinic systems, audio/video equipment, encryption software, and the Outcome Questionnaire platform. The role requires bilingual communication, graduate study in Clinical Psychology, and training in DroopL; experience with relevant technologies is preferred.

Conduct legal research on language rights in Canada and Ontario, focusing on constitutional official-language frameworks and relevant case law. Apply legal research tools and the McGill Guide, and produce high-quality legal writing in both French and English. The role includes 130 hours of work during the Winter 2027 semester and requires applying to the related Fall posting.

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.

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.

Participants are needed for an AI technology research study, offering compensation up to $600 for ~1.5-2 hours of participation over one week, requiring skills in tech-related roles.

Leads global intellectual property strategy for early research and development programs, including recombinant proteins, antibodies, plasma proteins, mRNA, gene and cell therapies, and other modalities. Manages patent attorneys and external counsel; oversees invention harvesting, patent prosecution, defense, enforcement, trade secrets, freedom-to-operate analysis, due diligence, transactions, litigation support, governance participation, budget planning, and strategic IP advice to senior R&D and research leadership.

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.

Design, build, and own end-to-end 3D asset pipelines and tooling for a multi-sensor simulation stack. Architect formats, storage, validation, packaging, and serving for meshes, neural representations, and generative outputs. Create visualization and curation tools at scale, integrate neural rendering and generative research into production, and collaborate with autonomy and safety teams to meet realism and coverage requirements.