Top Research Scientist Jobs in Ottawa

Conduct independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Conduct original research on reliable agentic AI, developing methods for simulation, evaluation, optimization, regression control, and continuous learning. Analyze agent failures, traces, and human feedback; create experiments and prototypes; and translate research into production-facing systems. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to technical strategy, and provide rigorous experimental evidence. The role requires strong research depth, publication or open-source contributions, hands-on Python development, and expertise in LLM agents or agentic systems.

Conduct applied research on foundation models for real-time fraud detection using large-scale behavioral and sequential data. Design experiments, benchmarks, holdouts, and monitoring systems; develop models from data preparation through deployment; and optimize training and inference efficiency. Collaborate with engineering, client-facing teams, legal, compliance, and customers to productionize models and establish explainability, governance, and risk documentation.

Responsible for designing experiments to evaluate AI models, developing evaluation methodologies, analyzing performance data, and collaborating on production insights.

The role involves designing and implementing machine learning systems for knowledge representation and temporal reasoning, focusing on organizational intelligence. Responsibilities include building LLM-powered pipelines, developing memory algorithms, and researching various ML techniques.

Work across modeling, data, systems, and evaluation to make video foundation models expressive, controllable, and personalized. Build adaptation and personalization pipelines, define end-user quality metrics and evaluations, and collaborate with product and design to deploy production-ready model variants for creative partners.

Lead applied research on continual learning, fast adaptation, memory, and transfer learning for agentic systems. Own end-to-end pipeline from data generation to evaluation and product integration, run experiments, produce code, and drive research strategy while mentoring and managing a small team.

Lead applied research on spatial reasoning, geometric and physical world modeling. Own data generation, evaluation, and product integration. Implement experiments, build production code, and drive research strategy in 3D, multimodal, simulation, and related domains.

The Forward Deployed Research Scientist engages directly with AI labs to develop data strategies, fine-tune models, run experiments, and collaborate on publishing research, all in a fast-paced client-focused setting.

The Senior Research Scientist will innovate and optimize models for real-time learning, collaborating across domains to enhance efficiency and impact, with a strong focus on practical applications and measurable outcomes.

Design, build, and operate large-scale RL post-training systems for multimodal foundation models: distributed training, high-throughput rollout generation, environment and reward infrastructure, evaluation and debugging tooling, and efficiency/stability improvements. Collaborate with researchers to productionize RL methods and run stable RL training across thousands of GPUs.

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.

The role involves designing de novo frameworks for molecular engineering, collaborating across teams to optimize data-driven biological experiments and integrating ML models with experimental systems.

Founding research hire to develop clinical reasoning and computer-use models using proprietary hospital and clinic data. Own end-to-end training and evaluation pipelines, design benchmarks exposing LLM weaknesses on clinical reasoning, run experiments, and publish technical reports and papers. Collaborate closely with founders and deploy research into products that improve physician workflows.

Research Scientists at Waabi will lead AI projects to develop algorithms for self-driving technology, collaborate on solution deployment, and publish research at conferences.

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

The role focuses on refining Luma's foundation models for better controllability and personalization while collaborating across research, product, and design teams.

Seeking a Research Scientist/Engineer to design and optimize distributed training systems for large-scale multimodal AI models using thousands of GPUs.

The role focuses on optimizing AI models for efficiency, involving GPU/CPU code profiling, high-performance programming, and developing performance tools.

The Research Scientist/Engineer will innovate algorithms for real-time adaptation, optimize ML systems, and ensure impactful product interactions.

The Research Scientist will develop models for natural hazards, evaluate scientific literature, clean data, and implement projects using Python and GIS tools.

S32 seeks Applied AI Research Scientists to explore new approaches, algorithms, and methodologies to advance AI systems across portfolio companies. Candidates will drive research, shape company direction, and collaborate with founders to apply research outcomes to product and business needs.

Seeking Applied AI Research Scientists to develop and explore new AI approaches, algorithms, and methodologies to drive AI systems across S32 portfolio companies and shape company direction.

The Research Scientist will develop and enhance simulation agents using advanced machine learning techniques, mentor junior team members, and publish research findings.