Top Research Jobs in Toronto

Conducts qualitative research by designing studies, coding interview and focus group transcripts, verifying transcript accuracy, analyzing themes, and integrating qualitative findings with quantitative data. Maintains coding pipelines, refines codebooks, documents inter-rater reliability, prepares client-ready reports and visualizations, develops case study materials, and supports de-identified dataset construction. The role also contributes to proposals, client engagement, methodological strategy, and research deliverables.

Explore large-scale AI evaluation datasets, identify patterns, biases, and causal relationships, and design experiments to understand model behavior. Build reproducible analysis pipelines with Python, Pandas, NumPy, and Spark; develop statistical and causal inference frameworks; partner with ML researchers and engineers; and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

Coordinates clinical research site selection and feasibility activities, including identifying investigators, evaluating questionnaires, recommending sites, coordinating qualification visits, and tracking activities in a CTMS. Builds relationships with clinical research sites, supports site quality assessments, collaborates with sponsors and project teams, and contributes to departmental initiatives. Requires at least three years of clinical research experience, knowledge of good clinical practices and Health Canada and FDA guidelines, and strong English communication skills; French and dermatology experience are assets.

Tracks and reports project profitability, budgets, revenues, expenses, forecasts, invoicing, and financial variances. Configures projects and budgets in financial systems, prepares journal entries and project reports, supports audits, advises project teams on cost control, and coordinates financial reviews with project managers and clients. The role also identifies process improvements and ensures accurate project financial records and account reconciliations.

Conducts investment manager research across equity and fixed-income mandates, evaluates portfolio and manager performance, develops diversified investment proposals, and provides technical guidance to advisors. Produces attribution reports, dashboards, manager commentary, and committee materials; supports fund and note approvals, risk ratings, compliance, and strategic initiatives. Maintains relationships with advisors, portfolio managers, operations teams, and external stakeholders while responding to client inquiries and supporting managed-account supervisory systems.

Supports Voice of Customer programs and CX research through surveys, interviews, data analysis, dashboard development, survey audits, and actionable recommendations. The intern also contributes to customer research studies, employee recognition content, and sharing customer experience trends and best practices. This unpaid co-op internship requires enrollment in a post-secondary program and offers hands-on experience in qualitative and quantitative research, survey design, customer insights, and business reporting.

Supports budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cash-flow management, financial modeling, and recurring reporting across corporate and site-level cost centers. Builds dashboards and KPI tracking, maintains shared financial models, partners with operational and clinical leaders, and contributes to integrated P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow modeling. The role also helps automate reporting and establish FP&A processes and best practices.

Lead RTV's portfolio of pilots, experiments, RCTs, and technical projects from design through delivery. Set learning agenda, oversee intake and governance, coordinate implementation, synthesize evidence, translate findings into program improvements, manage donor engagement, and build a small cross-functional team to integrate learning into scaling decisions.

Design and run experiments to characterize OLED and related semiconductor devices, analyze and present data, operate and troubleshoot R&D equipment, collaborate with engineers, maintain lab safety, and generate test documentation to support materials development and production readiness.

Conduct research and design AI data-security and privacy architectures for endpoint devices. Prototype and build privacy-preserving defenses, analyze emerging attack vectors and regulations, and collaborate with global labs and product teams to transition research into production-grade endpoint security solutions.

Research and analyze state-of-the-art AI model architectures and training/inference workloads; map workloads to hardware requirements; develop performance models and deployment strategies; profile hardware/software, evaluate algorithm-hardware tradeoffs, and provide quantitative recommendations for next-generation AI accelerators.

Design, build, and own end-to-end 3D asset pipelines and tooling for a multi-sensor simulation stack. Architect formats, storage, validation, packaging, and serving for meshes, neural representations, and generative outputs. Create visualization and curation tools at scale, integrate neural rendering and generative research into production, and collaborate with autonomy and safety teams to meet realism and coverage requirements.

Leads AI R&D initiatives, managing cross-functional teams, project scope, resources, schedules, risks, roadmaps, and requirements. Partners with the AI Director, coordinates teams across North America and Europe, removes delivery blockers, improves production processes, and maintains external partnerships. The role emphasizes team empowerment, Agile collaboration, communication, analytical problem-solving, and delivery of AI, research, or game-development projects.

Lead research program execution for AI-driven scientific discovery. Partner with research leaders to define priorities, hypotheses, milestones, evidence plans, KPIs, and expected outcomes. Manage the research portfolio and ROI framework, establish operating rhythms, track investment and progress, identify stalled or low-value initiatives, and drive decisions to iterate, redirect, pause, or stop work. Translate research progress and tradeoffs for Product, Engineering, and leadership while supporting the transition of successful research into product capabilities.

Create monthly investor insights, investment materials, financial planning content, and timely market notes for Wealthsimple clients. Research market developments, synthesize complex investment concepts into clear and engaging writing, exercise editorial judgment, and use AI tools to refine standard content. The role partners with investment and editorial teams while requiring strong financial literacy, investment judgment, curiosity, independence, and familiarity with Canadian wealth management or retail investment products.

Support and coordinate rheumatology clinical trials: prepare and maintain REB/regulatory submissions, recruit and consent participants, collect and enter source data per ICH-GCP, assist with sample handling/shipping, maintain regulatory files, and perform study visit tasks to ensure protocol compliance and data integrity.

Lead generative UX and market research to identify emerging opportunities, assess markets, define ICPs and value propositions, and shape product and business strategy. Influence senior leaders, partner with analytics, product, design, marketing, sales, and client services, and translate insights into investment and go-to-market decisions. Coach researchers, improve UXR processes, and integrate AI into scalable research workflows.

Lead, coach, and grow a team of UX researchers supporting Stripe Payments and Risk products. Conduct and guide mixed-methods research, translate user insights into product strategy, establish research programs and infrastructure, and enable cross-functional teams to apply research practices. Partner with product, design, business, and executive leaders while guiding AI-driven improvements to research processes and sourcing external research vendors.

Coordinates oncology and hematology clinical trials and research studies, including participant recruitment, informed consent, patient visit scheduling, source documentation, data collection, adverse-event recording, sample coordination, Epic order sets, study files, and ethics submissions. Collaborates with investigators, clinical research nurses, healthcare teams, data teams, and regulatory staff to maintain data quality, protocol compliance, and trial operations.

The role involves researching and prototyping security technologies for OS and device protection, analyzing threats, and developing innovative security features.

The Database Research Expert will lead the architecture design for a data analytics platform, optimize database performance, and guide research on innovative database technologies.

Lead the development of competitive bus architectures and interconnection protocols for AI and computing. Innovate in chip design and ensure business success through system-level solutions.

The Research Engineer will design agentic software systems, focusing on AI agents' collaboration in software engineering, prototype frameworks, and optimize engineering processes.

Lead quantitative research projects end-to-end, design proposals, analyze large datasets, prepare reports and presentations, advise clients strategically, mentor junior staff, support business development, and manage account-level client relationships.