Top Research Jobs in Toronto

Leads research, innovation pipeline development, strategic opportunity assessment, and cross-functional initiatives for corporate underwriting. Evaluates market trends, emerging risks, portfolio performance, profitability, and growth opportunities while developing business recommendations and guiding initiatives from concept through execution. Partners with underwriting, claims, actuarial, reinsurance, technology, and distribution teams, and coaches team members including a Project Manager. Requires extensive commercial property and casualty insurance expertise, leadership experience, and strong project governance capabilities.

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.

Owns an end-to-end qualitative research study for Yaqeen’s ebook library, including research planning, participant recruitment, interviews, synthesis, reporting, and stakeholder presentations. The role will compare findings with prior research, generate prioritized product, editorial, and marketing recommendations, measure user impact, and establish reusable research practices. It also requires careful handling of participant data and sensitivity when researching faith, doubt, and personal practice.

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.

Conduct in-depth research on Islamic studies, history, social sciences, and current events for video and audio productions. Gather and synthesize credible sources, fact-check scripts, document citations, identify compelling narratives, prepare research briefs, and organize source repositories. The role supports producers, writers, and hosts while maintaining rigorous academic accuracy and clear communication.

Runs biology and chemistry laboratory protocols, records filmed procedures, maintains detailed experimental traceability, manages materials and equipment, troubleshoots technical issues, and improves laboratory workflows. The role produces reliable scientific datasets for robotics and embodied AI systems and requires hands-on wet-lab, robotics, automation, and scientific communication skills.

Supports Phase I-IV clinical trials by conducting protocol-compliant study visits, participant screening, informed consent, clinical procedures, phlebotomy, sample processing, investigational product handling, and adverse-event documentation. Maintains regulatory records, performs source-data quality checks, supports monitoring visits and audits, coordinates participant schedules, assists with site start-up, and collaborates with investigators, sponsors, and research teams to ensure participant safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance.

Conduct site monitoring and management for clinical trials, including selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits. Ensure compliance with GCP, ICH, and local regulations; manage recruitment, regulatory submissions, documentation, data queries, and site files. Train and mentor clinical staff, assess site quality, resolve issues, prepare monitoring reports, and collaborate with study teams. The role requires bilingual French and English proficiency and is based in Montreal.

Own the production deployment of neural and generative models for Waabi’s multi-sensor simulator. Responsibilities include optimizing models with compilation, quantization, mixed precision, CUDA, and custom kernels; building numerical parity benchmarks; developing model export, versioning, registry, and build tooling; collaborating with research teams; and managing GPU workloads in cloud environments.

Conduct careful web and document research to develop training and benchmarking tasks for frontier AI models. Responsibilities include retrieving and verifying claims, cross-referencing academic and financial sources, tracking original sources, using research-enabled LLM tools, rapidly learning new domains, and clearly communicating reasoning, uncertainty, and findings in written and verbal formats. This is a fully remote, one-month contract requiring at least 15 hours weekly, with an expected average of 20 hours per week.

Manages quantitative and mixed-method research projects from initial brief through final delivery. Responsibilities include designing samples and questionnaires, overseeing fieldwork and suppliers, delegating research tasks, analyzing data, developing insights, creating reports, presenting recommendations, moderating qualitative research, and managing client relationships, project timelines, and budgets.

Provides legal research and reference services to lawyers, students, and internal departments. Conducts legislative, legal, and business research; develops search strategies; evaluates print and electronic resources; delivers current-awareness services; and trains lawyers, students, and library team members. The role also supports research methodology instruction, resource technology evaluation, team collaboration, mentoring, onboarding, and project-related mandates.

Supports Stantec’s annual SR&ED claim development cycle by planning activities, documenting project information, tracking claims, organizing supporting records, assisting with cost estimates, and monitoring deadlines. The intern collaborates with research advisors and managers while learning about engineering and scientific innovation projects and government research funding. The role requires strong organization, communication, teamwork, Python proficiency, and enrollment in a science or engineering university program.

Research Engineer developing human-robot interaction systems for consumer robots. The role spans robotics research and hands-on engineering across motion, perception, sensing, actuation, thermals, inference, firmware, hardware, datasets, and evaluation. Responsibilities include inventing and testing novel approaches, building real hardware and ML systems, deploying reliable low-latency solutions on edge devices, and documenting reproducible results. Candidates should demonstrate self-directed projects, end-to-end artifacts, hardware experience, ML deployment, and cross-layer technical adaptability.

Produces and promotes digital-first content across YouTube, social media, podcast platforms, and other channels. Responsibilities include creating short-form assets, managing publishing workflows, optimizing metadata and thumbnails, monitoring analytics, conducting A/B tests, coordinating editors, identifying audience opportunities, and translating performance insights into content and format recommendations.

Lead research for a new quantum technology market initiative. Develop expertise in qubit hardware, fabrication, experimental setups, control flows, and measurement protocols. Validate approaches through experimentation, modeling, and device work; identify scaling bottlenecks; translate findings into product requirements and architectures; and collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, customers, partners, and the research community.

Conduct market and property research, analyze and validate data, maintain internal databases, support GIS mapping, identify market trends, and contribute to client-ready valuation and consulting reports. The role supports seniors housing and healthcare real estate assignments through research, administrative assistance, report writing, and collaboration with the consulting team.

Leads manager research and oversight for NEI Investments and the Managed Asset Program, including manager selection, due diligence, sub-advisor oversight, performance evaluation, and investment recommendations across public, private, and alternative markets. Directs a research team, develops analytical capabilities, oversees external manager relationships, improves research frameworks, and provides investment insights to senior leaders, clients, and sales teams.

Develop generative and physics-based models to infer full-body human motion from egocentric and partial observations. Train motion priors, enforce physical consistency, estimate contacts and ground planes, and deliver MHR/SOMA-X outputs for production robotics pipelines. Define evaluation metrics, commission motion-capture and sensor data, implement research code, and publish results.

Research and develop neural 3D reconstruction models that recover geometry, pose, deformability, and physical properties of manipulated objects from monocular egocentric video. Build generative refinement, contact-aware reconstruction, and simulatable-object prototypes using deep learning, 3D geometry, and differentiable rendering. Define research direction, evaluate challenging real-world data, prototype in Python and PyTorch, and hand successful methods to an integrations researcher for productionization.

Provide administrative support to the Head of Equity Research and research analysts, including meeting and travel coordination, expense and invoice processing, database and records maintenance, office management, HR initiatives, and special projects. The role requires discretion, strong organization, communication, prioritization, and proficiency with Microsoft Office tools in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Develop and refactor Python optimization algorithms using object-oriented programming for supply chain, inventory allocation, replenishment, and pricing optimization. Build predictive models, apply advanced statistical and optimization techniques to large datasets, and deliver data-driven solutions for retail and CPG clients. Collaborate with business stakeholders and data science teams, communicate analytical insights, coach colleagues, and apply current data science practices to business problems.

The Senior Research Engineer will develop and deliver scalable ML solutions, collaborate with teams, and apply innovative technologies in AI to impact professionals in legal and accounting fields.

Designs and operates public, automated benchmarks for data providers. Owns datasets, ground truth, scoring methodology, reproducible evaluation harnesses, weekly releases, public leaderboards, and integration of benchmark results into Alexandria’s provider-selection system. Measures accuracy, coverage, freshness, speed, and cost while communicating findings to engineers, marketers, and vendors.

Develop and scale human iPSC-derived neuronal and rodent primary cell models for neurotechnology screening. Responsibilities include expanding and QCing iPSC lines, producing neuronal banks, maintaining long-term cultures, developing biochemical, imaging, and activity assays, troubleshooting and optimizing high-throughput workflows, documenting deviations, and maintaining audit-ready records. The role requires close cross-functional collaboration, precise experimental execution, and intermittent weekend laboratory work.