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.

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.

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.

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.

Assist a faculty researcher in macro/labor economics with data cleaning, coding, statistical analysis, literature reviews, and support on research projects related to labor-market dynamics. 130 hours for Fall 2026; renewable for two terms.

Assist a research project on austerity and immigration policy by conducting literature reviews, synthesizing and analyzing legal and social-science sources, and attending remote research team meetings. Work independently, meet deadlines, and support research organization and analysis tasks.

Recruit and engage adult participants assigned female at birth or with a uterus for an online survey on sexual knowledge and wellbeing. Develop and distribute recruitment materials, liaise with community organizations, compile and clean Qualtrics survey data, assist with data organization and basic analyses. Short-term 35-hour contract with possible extension.

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.

Provide 130 hours of editorial research support for the Canadian Journal of Education: thematic and methodological analyses of past articles, prepare historical materials for publication, update the journal website (award recipients and past editorial teams), and revise author guidelines. Work bilingually in English and French and collaborate with the editorial team.

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 the INSPIRE Core Facility by providing onsite experimental setup and monitoring, managing lab equipment and participant pools, troubleshooting equipment failures, and supporting online survey platforms and data-collection systems.

Lead needs analysis, gap assessments, and research planning for a new Counter-Uncrewed Aerial Systems capability. Elicit stakeholder requirements, document use-cases and processes, evaluate state-of-the-art C-UAS solutions, recommend options, and liaise with government, industry, and research partners to close capability gaps.

Support daily accounting, accounts payable/receivable, reconciliations, month-/year-end tasks, and financial reporting. Maintain documentation and accounting system data, participate in quality control, and assist with process improvement while learning accounting practices and internal controls.

Operate and improve an in-house AAV vector core: run weekly AAV production from cell culture through purification, perform QC assays (titer, purity, genome integrity), maintain ELN lot records and inventories, follow and update SOPs, troubleshoot production issues, and coordinate handoffs with program teams to ensure consistent, high-quality vectors.

Lead cross-functional global project teams for dermatology clinical programs, ensuring milestone delivery, budget and scope adherence, compliance with processes, client liaison and meeting leadership, support proposal/business development, and cultivate client relationships to drive future business.

Provide administrative and confidential support to the school principal by managing the school office, personnel and student records, handling correspondence and communications, coordinating schedules and meetings, overseeing office staff and workflows, maintaining budgets/accounts, and responding to emergencies and stakeholder inquiries.

Lead and coordinate special education programs: curriculum development, program evaluation, staff development, IEP implementation, community relations, materials procurement, record keeping, candidate interviewing, and support for school improvement initiatives. Provide leadership, training, and outreach to ensure compliance and best practices for students with special needs.

Build and own a versioned, documented gold data layer from lakehouse silver tables for AI research. Transform, validate, and productize multi-modal datasets and pipelines (Databricks/PySpark) to support model development, evaluation, and production ML/LLM workflows while ensuring data quality, provenance, and regulatory controls.

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.