Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Analyze verbatim focus-group transcripts for a consultation on the Francophonie and draft methodology sections. The role requires 65 hours of work from November 11 to December 18, 2026, and bilingual English-French communication. Graduate student status is required.

Develop production-grade optimization models and services for workforce planning, scheduling, forecasting, and resource allocation. Use OR-Tools/CP-SAT and mathematical programming to convert business rules into scalable constraint models. Validate solution quality, performance, accuracy, and stability; integrate optimization engines into enterprise platforms; and collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, and workforce-management stakeholders.

Supports the Canadian Journal of Education by updating and maintaining an Anglophone peer-reviewer database, verifying academic profiles and expertise, identifying suitable reviewers, and conducting scholarly database searches. The role also assists with a literature review, grant application budgeting, and liaison with partner organizations. Responsibilities require confidentiality, independent work, strong organization, educational research knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Excel.

Assists with editing the second edition of a counseling social justice book, including administrative coordination, editorial work, literature reviews, chapter framing, proofing, indexing, promotion, grant application support, budgeting, and partner liaison. Requires strong APA formatting, research organization, collaboration, attention to detail, and timely task completion. Counseling psychology coursework or related experience is an asset.

Coordinates logistics for two bilingual workshops, including room and catering bookings, audiovisual and IT support, participant registration, communications, AI-mediated translation setup, website updates, volunteer coordination, on-site assistance, note-taking, and tracking tasks, timelines, and event budgets.

Supports workshop presenters, mentorship coordination, research data management, and knowledge mobilization activities. Responsibilities include maintaining a mentorship database, matching participants with mentors, taking workshop notes, providing feedback on research and policy products, compiling bilingual written and video proceedings for publication, and assisting with related project tasks. The role requires doctoral enrollment, bilingual English-French capability, strong writing and editing skills, organization, reliability, and in-person availability for both workshops.

Assist a Faculty of Education professor with preparing a grant application, including drafting detailed descriptions and conducting additional analysis of existing datasets. The position involves 95 hours of research support between November 15, 2026, and January 31, 2027, on the University of Ottawa main campus.

The Research Assistant will support a Faculty of Education professor with literature reviews, grant application preparation, budgeting, and liaison with partner organizations. The position involves 75 hours of work from November 15, 2026, through January 31, 2027, at the University of Ottawa’s Main Campus. Work is conducted in English under the CUPE 2626 agreement.

Leads Agility’s media research team and owns the accuracy, organization, freshness, and compliance of its journalist and outlet database. Establishes research standards, verification processes, categorization systems, and data quality metrics; tracks newsroom changes and enriches profiles with outreach intelligence. Partners with Product Development on AI-powered research automation, and collaborates with Customer Success, Sales Enablement, Marketing, and leadership. Hires and develops researchers while supporting client education and journalist data requests.

The tenure-track Canada Research Chair will lead an internationally recognized research program on law and urban governance, teach law, supervise graduate students, secure external funding, build interdisciplinary and community partnerships, and contribute academic service. Candidates must demonstrate exceptional legal scholarship, graduate teaching experience, research funding success, interdisciplinary collaboration, and French-language proficiency, with passive or active English knowledge required for tenure.

Conduct research for a graduate project exploring feminist pedagogies and creative writing. The role requires expertise in feminist research methodology and pedagogy, with 65 total hours of work from November 15 through December 22, 2026. Work is conducted in English and French at the University of Ottawa’s main campus.

Supports an educational program for high school students focused on access to justice and technology in legal services. Responsibilities include drafting a legal scenario for program modules and supporting adoption in schools. The assistant will conduct academic research and writing while collaborating with a supervising law professor and nonprofit partner.

Lead student researcher on a project examining social citizenship and skilled migration. Responsibilities include literature synthesis, EndNote reference management, research ethics, quantitative and qualitative research design, semi-structured interviews, NVivo-assisted analysis, data collection, statistical analysis, project management, and team calibration.

Supports an educational program for high school students focused on access to justice and technology in legal services. Responsibilities include drafting a legal scenario for program modules and supporting adoption in schools. The role requires academic legal research and writing, collaboration with a nonprofit partner, and interest in technology’s impact on the legal system. The position is based at the University of Ottawa and includes 60 hours of work from November 11 through December 31, 2026.

Conduct research on social justice and human rights in Canada; support drafting, prepare footnotes, and complete administrative tasks. The role requires bilingual French-English communication, excellent legal writing in both languages, strong attention to detail, and knowledge of French common law terminology. Experience in legal research, an Equality Law Clinic, or a social justice setting is advantageous.

Conduct research on social justice and human rights in Canada; support drafting and footnote preparation; complete administrative tasks; and apply strong bilingual legal writing skills in English and French. The role requires attention to detail, resourcefulness, passion for social justice, and knowledge of French common-law terminology. Experience in legal research, the Equality Law Clinic, or a social justice setting is preferred.

Conduct research on intergroup relations, identity, and belonging in a Montreal neighborhood. Responsibilities include analyzing survey data, compiling census data, and analyzing interviews with neighborhood residents. The role requires strong quantitative and qualitative research skills and knowledge of literature concerning identity and belonging among minority groups.

Conduct secondary data collection, manage and analyze research data, and participate in project meetings and events for the UnborderED knowledge project, which focuses on equitable access to education and research for people with lived experiences of forced migration in Canada.

Supports the planning, promotion, setup, delivery, and cleanup of feminist events on and off campus. Responsibilities include food and refreshment setup, accessibility support, ticketing, check-in, registration, event promotion, signage, materials, logistics, and welcoming attendees. The role also shares event information with students, encourages participation, and assists with other event-related tasks as needed.

Assists research on Russian oppositionists who supported defeat in war from the Russo-Japanese War through the war in Ukraine. Tasks include identifying relevant historical newspaper articles, reviewing contemporary social media and digital materials, conducting additional research, and organizing collected sources for accessibility and analysis. Good Russian-language knowledge is required.

Conduct 65 hours of psychology research during the Winter 2027 semester in a university research laboratory or facility. Successful applicants will be matched with research lab positions based on their interests and will gain experience relevant to future research employment and graduate applications. Applicants must be eligible undergraduate psychology students meeting specified academic, course, identity, and employment requirements.

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.

Develop and optimize molecular and cell biology assays for high-throughput screening. Translate validated assays into automated workflows, operate and troubleshoot laboratory instruments, prepare samples and cell cultures, perform initial data quality control, maintain records and inventory, and train users on standardized procedures.

Develop and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and numerical methods using Python. Debug algorithmic and system-level issues, optimize memory usage and performance, design systematic tests, and build reproducible workflows. Review challenging ML engineering tasks, use coding agents in development, document technical findings, and deliver high-quality work independently within deadlines.