Top Research Jobs in Toronto

Graduate research co-op focused on building Customer World Models and proactive intelligence: designing representation learning, foundation-model, reinforcement learning, and agentic systems; running experiments, publishing, and deploying research into production to improve long-horizon decision-making and customer-facing automation.

Conduct research to advance agentic systems by developing methods for planning, reasoning, and reinforcement learning with LLMs and multi-agent systems; build experiments and datasets to improve LLM performance in complex workflows; stay current with academic advances.

Develop computer vision and vision-language models for image and video understanding in restaurant environments. Build datasets, training strategies, evaluations, and benchmarks; diagnose model failures; and deploy efficient, reliable inference pipelines. The role combines research and engineering across scene understanding, object tracking, activity recognition, temporal reasoning, visual grounding, and multimodal models, while partnering with product and infrastructure teams to bring research into production.

Product Designer focused on user research and user-centered digital product design. Conducts qualitative and quantitative research, usability testing, surveys, and synthesis; creates user flows, journey maps, information architecture, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. Collaborates with product managers, developers, QA, and clients to validate concepts, communicate recommendations, and deliver responsive web experiences using design systems and Figma-based workflows.

Conduct qualitative and quantitative UX research for Lyft drivers and riders using interviews, usability testing, field research, surveys, diary studies, and other methods. Analyze research data, develop actionable insights, and communicate recommendations that guide product and design improvements. Collaborate with Design, Product Management, Analytics, Engineering, and senior researchers while gaining mentorship and contributing to user-facing products.

Develop signal processing algorithms for camera, LiDAR, radar, and other autonomous-driving sensor data. Design acquisition, fusion, filtering, and learning-based methods; optimize them for CPU, GPU, DSP, and specialized accelerators; and collaborate with autonomy and hardware teams to deliver reliable, low-latency production systems. The role also supports experimental validation and potential research publications.

Manage a three-year CIHR-funded research grant and co-lead population health studies focused on public health systems, opioid crisis responses, and substance use. Responsibilities include developing protocols, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, conducting policy analysis and evidence synthesis, writing grants and manuscripts, presenting findings, engaging stakeholders, and supporting trainees and research staff.

Manage market research studies from launch through completion, including questionnaire setup, quality checks, data verification, coordination with data collection and processing teams, issue resolution, and survey analysis. Generate actionable insights from research results while managing multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholder needs. The role requires strong communication, analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office skills.

Senior equity research role covering Canadian banks and select asset managers. Develop differentiated investment theses, build and maintain financial and stress models, publish timely research, lead management and investor meetings, collaborate with sales/trading and other analysts, mentor associates, and ensure regulatory and firm-policy compliance. Requires deep banking finance, accounting and regulatory expertise and strong stakeholder relationships.

Coordinates and manages patients participating in oncology clinical trials, including sample collection and shipment, clinical assessments, vital signs, ECGs, treatment administration, data collection, and source documentation. Collaborates with investigators and healthcare teams while following study protocols, UHN policies, and ICH/GCP guidelines. Provides clinical care, patient education, and research coordination across pharmaceutical-sponsored, cooperative group, and investigator-initiated studies.

Coordinates supportive care clinical research studies, including participant recruitment, informed consent, study visits, data collection, database and source documentation, ethics submissions, protocol development, statistical analysis, manuscripts, grants, and conference preparation. The coordinator also maintains study files, supports research students, facilitates meetings, and ensures compliance with UHN policies and ICH/GCP guidelines.

Leads eBay’s enterprise UX research systems and operations strategy. Owns modernization of participant recruitment, panel management, incentives, compliance, research tooling, knowledge management, and operational infrastructure. Drives AI-enabled automation, self-service research, data quality, governance, and scalable customer insight capabilities. Builds and leads teams, develops multi-year transformation roadmaps, secures executive alignment and investment, and partners across Design, Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Procurement, and Insights.

Coordinates multicentre oncology clinical trials, including patient screening, recruitment, consent, eligibility verification, treatment scheduling, study procedures, specimen shipping, data entry, adverse-event reporting, source-document maintenance, regulatory compliance, and sponsor communication. Collaborates with investigators, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, and diagnostic services while supporting study initiation, monitoring visits, protocol meetings, and ongoing research education.

Supports the Global Markets Equity Research team through company and industry research, financial forecasting, market analysis, research report preparation, and process optimization. The role offers exposure to financial institutions, mining, real estate, technology, healthcare, and industrials coverage. Associates collaborate with team members, communicate complex findings, manage projects, and develop analytical skills while working on-site in Toronto for a four-month term.

Assists with coordinating Phase I clinical trials from protocol approval through study closure. Responsibilities include preparing research environments, scheduling and supporting participants, conducting specified assessments such as vital signs, collecting medical documents, processing reimbursements, ordering supplies, transcribing data, and maintaining electronic and paper study files while following research regulations and confidentiality requirements.

Coordinate intake, documentation, and tracking of software and AI tool requests. Gather requirements, triage basic research, capture meeting notes and action items, maintain inventories, and partner with IT, security, and stakeholders to escalate risks and drive decisions.

The intern will research and write grant applications to secure funding for NovaForge's programs, collaborating with teams and maintaining application pipelines.

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.

Lead and manage a research team developing agentic AI, focusing on reinforcement learning, transformer‑based generative models (LLMs, diffusion), and multi‑agent systems. Define research strategy, keep pace with state of the art, and build external academic and community relationships to position Skyfall as an AI leader.

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, prototype, test, and troubleshoot curtain wall and façade systems and components. Provide hands-on technical support, collaborate with design and engineering teams, improve manufacturing and installation efficiency, and ensure products meet industry standards, client specifications, and safety requirements. Travel within Canada and the United States for up to one week at a time.

Produce forward-looking, objective research and ratings on funds and other investment vehicles. Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis using Morningstar databases, interview managers, monitor regulatory information, perform on-site due diligence, and contribute to analytical tools and thought leadership.

Lead AI and data industry research, publications, and open-innovation ecosystems. Build strategic partnerships with academia, startups, and government. Advise the Chief AI and Data Officer, drive thought leadership, ensure responsible AI governance, manage strategic initiatives, and shepherd analytics, change management, and cross-enterprise collaboration to scale AI solutions.

Build infrastructure and software for training, deploying, scaling, monitoring, and operating machine-learning models and optimization algorithms for supply-chain applications. Responsibilities include translating supply-chain use cases into mathematical models, developing ML and optimization systems in C++ and Python, designing automated testing strategies, and supporting cloud or containerized workloads. The role also involves research into heuristics, optimization, GPU computing, MLOps, and AI-assisted software development.

Develop and optimize supply-chain algorithms by translating real-world problems into mathematical models. Lead C++ implementation, investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, and create comprehensive functional, regression, performance, unit, and integration tests. Collaborate with agile teams and stakeholders while improving software quality, development speed, and platform capabilities. Experience with commercial mathematical solvers, data structures, algorithms, and AI-assisted development is valued.