Top Research Jobs in Toronto

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.

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.

Administer and score standardized psychiatric and cognitive assessments for a PTSD clinical trial, including CAPS-5 and related scales. Conduct screening and follow-up interviews, maintain protocol-compliant ratings, blinding, confidentiality, and accurate EDC documentation. Complete rater certification and calibration, resolve data queries, support audits, and promptly escalate suicidality or other participant safety concerns.

Design and develop production-grade optimization models and services for workforce planning, forecasting, scheduling, and resource allocation. Build OR-Tools/CP-SAT constraint models, define schedule quality metrics, validate algorithm performance, and integrate optimization capabilities into an enterprise workforce management platform. Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, and workforce-planning stakeholders to translate business requirements into mathematical models and operationally effective schedules.

Coordinates the SCAPE clinical research study across UHN sites, leading participant visits and clinical assessments. Performs heart and lung auscultation, collects physiological data, oversees study staff, maintains participant safety, reviews medical histories, completes questionnaires and documentation, and verifies data quality. Supports protocol refinement, research files, case report forms, adverse-event reporting, and REB submissions while contributing clinical expertise to wearable technology research.

Conduct research and data analysis for institutional investor and pension fund projects. Gather, clean, and analyze proprietary and external data; identify trends; develop charts, summaries, and presentations; and communicate actionable insights to research teams, clients, and partners. The role offers mentorship, hybrid work in Toronto, and a potential pathway to a full-time Research Analyst position.

Lead technical design and delivery of AI-enabled solutions for Citco’s Fund Services transformation program. Integrate AWS, cloud data platforms, Sigma, UiPath, Databricks, machine learning models, LLMs, and conversational AI. Establish MLOps, CI/CD, security, responsible AI, and production-readiness standards while owning solution lifecycles. Lead proofs of concept, mentor developers, oversee monitoring and support, and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.

Coordinates Phase 1 clinical trials in the Drug Development Program, including participant recruitment, informed consent, visit scheduling, clinical assessments, treatment administration, adverse-event monitoring, sample processing, and data documentation. Provides nursing care to trial participants while ensuring compliance with study protocols, UHN policies, and ICH/GCP guidelines. Collaborates with investigators and healthcare teams across pharmaceutical-sponsored, cooperative, and investigator-initiated studies.

Leads strategy, discovery, roadmap planning, execution, and adoption across multiple AI-enabled B2B SaaS products. Owns customer outcomes, requirements, prioritization, experimentation, launch readiness, and cross-functional coordination. Partners with engineering on architecture, security, privacy, reliability, auditability, and AI quality. Engages customers and executives, mentors product teams, evaluates investments, and develops reusable product practices. Requires production AI/LLM experience, technical fluency, regulated-industry exposure, and entrepreneurial judgment.

Lead end-to-end market research and serve as a strategic thought partner to enterprise clients. Responsibilities include shaping research roadmaps, designing methodologies and questionnaires, analyzing data, producing reports, conducting meta-analyses, managing budgets and timelines, and overseeing survey programming and fieldwork. The role also helps build Research Studio’s scalable processes, quality standards, workflows, and AI-assisted research practices while managing multiple client projects.

Manage multiple quantitative market research projects from design through delivery, including timelines, budgets, questionnaires, data analysis, reporting, and recommendations. Build client relationships, develop research solutions, provide methodological guidance, prepare proposals, and present insights. The role focuses on Innovation research, consumer research, storytelling with data, and delivering actionable findings while coordinating with internal operations teams.

Coordinates strategic initiatives, projects, funding opportunities, peer-review activities, stakeholder engagements, and events for a national cancer research institute. Conducts environmental scans, literature reviews, data analyses, and visualizations; prepares briefing materials, reports, communications, and recommendations. Maintains databases, data systems, SharePoint content, documentation, and project timelines while supporting senior leadership and external partnerships.

Leads WES Canada's policy, advocacy, and applied economic research agenda. Directs quantitative research on immigration, labour markets, credential recognition, and workforce integration; develops policy positions, consultation submissions, and strategic recommendations; manages staff, consultants, partnerships, and cross-functional initiatives; advises executives; prepares board and briefing materials; and represents WES with governments, institutions, employers, and sector stakeholders.

Supports equity analysts and portfolio managers through fundamental company and industry research, financial modeling, earnings forecasting, valuation analysis, and monitoring of investment opportunities. Prepares research summaries, earnings updates, presentations, and financial statement analyses while tracking company announcements and market developments. Collaborates with investment teams, contributes to investment discussions, and develops buy-side research expertise through mentorship and hands-on experience.

Leads translational and non-interventional biomarker studies in immunology, including protocol development, target validation, mechanism-of-action research, data analysis, and quality assurance. Provides scientific and strategic leadership across preclinical and clinical development, collaborates with internal and external research partners, supports regulatory and clinical documentation, and supervises research scientists. The role bridges preclinical research and early clinical development to inform therapeutic-area strategies and development decisions.

Develop geometry and CAD software that matches and validates 3D models against 2D drawings. Contribute to geometry libraries and design tools, extend a toolpath computation engine, investigate geometric algorithms, and eventually own a core software subsystem from design through maintenance. The role applies mathematical and low-level software expertise to physical manufacturing and requires solving loosely defined computational problems.

Coordinates and manages Phase 1 oncology clinical trials, including participant recruitment, informed consent, visit scheduling, clinical assessments, adverse-event monitoring, medication and sample handling, patient care, data collection, and source documentation. Collaborates with investigators and healthcare teams while following study protocols, UHN policies, and ICH/GCP guidelines. The role also requires careful documentation, patient and family education, clinical judgment, and coordination of multiple study activities.

Coordinates Phase 1 clinical trials for the Drug Development Program, including participant recruitment, informed consent, visit scheduling, clinical assessments, treatment administration, safety monitoring, sample handling, data collection, and source documentation. Provides nursing care to trial participants while ensuring compliance with study protocols, UHN policies, and ICH/GCP guidelines. Collaborates with investigators and healthcare teams across pharma-sponsored, cooperative group, and investigator-initiated studies.

Supports market research projects from design through reporting. Responsibilities include assisting with questionnaires and discussion guides, checking survey materials, managing fieldwork and recruitment, conducting qualitative research, preparing analysis plans, validating data tables, summarizing findings, analyzing results, and creating client-ready reports. The role requires strong numeracy, communication, teamwork, organization, multitasking, and the ability to turn research data into actionable insights.

Conduct quantitative and qualitative market research projects for clients, managing the full project lifecycle from research design and questionnaires through data analysis, reporting, and presentations. Serve as a key client contact, develop actionable insights and recommendations, coordinate internal teams, and manage multiple projects simultaneously. The role focuses on shopper research across retail, packaging, planograms, signage, and path-to-purchase experiences.

Conduct complex environmental and investigative research from planning through execution; manage research projects, analyze literature and datasets, and translate findings into conservation strategies. Produce accessible reports, analysis briefs, data visualizations, blogs, presentations, and other communications. Collaborate with clients, partners, allies, Indigenous advocates, and frontline communities while exploring innovative research methods and supporting Stand.earth’s campaigns and profile-building efforts.

Leads qualitative research projects from proposal through delivery, including moderation, client account management, fieldwork, project profitability, proposals, and insight storytelling. Oversees quality, manages multiple projects and vendors, advises clients on research strategy and technology use, and mentors team members. The role requires frequent US travel from Ontario, strong qualitative and quantitative research knowledge, senior client leadership, commercial awareness, and expertise in translating findings into actionable narratives.

Conduct life sciences research supporting advanced AI evaluation. Create rigorous scientific problems, develop reproducible Python analyses and simulations, process biological datasets, validate computational results, review scientific reasoning and code, identify methodological errors, apply statistical techniques, and document findings clearly. The role requires strong practical Python skills alongside advanced education and research experience in biology, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, neuroscience, genetics, computational biology, or related fields.

Conducts clinical trial site monitoring to protect participants, verify accurate and complete data, ensure protocol and ICH GCP compliance, manage investigational drug accountability, support recruitment, maintain trial documentation and systems, prepare monitoring reports, resolve issues, and coordinate with sites, sponsors, regulatory teams, and project managers.

Act as a technical advisor to academic AI labs working on foundational models. Identify research workloads suited to NVIDIA platforms, engage researchers to remove infrastructure blockers, track frontier research, partner with internal teams to drive adoption, translate academic feedback into product and program improvements, and support NVIDIA participation at major research venues through content, workshops, and lab programs.