Top Research Jobs in Vancouver

Monitors clinical investigative sites for Phase I–III studies, ensuring protocol compliance, data quality, subject safety, regulatory adherence, and inspection readiness. Conducts site qualification, initiation, interim monitoring, and closeout visits; trains site personnel; manages corrective actions, investigator payments, agreements, and safety reporting; and identifies qualified investigators and study sites. The role requires at least 50% travel and frequent collaboration with clinical research stakeholders.

Conducts independent laboratory research on antimony recovery from lead-zinc concentrate, reports findings to Dr. Liu, ensures data accuracy, and may supervise graduate, undergraduate, or co-op students.

Supports a Parkinson’s disease digital health study through participant visits, clinical assessments, data and technology-output review, safety concern escalation, screening, consent, documentation, and participant technology support. Assists with study protocols, REB submissions, SOP compliance, and multidisciplinary collaboration with clinicians, engineers, and researchers. Provides clinical input to study tools, data analysis, and publications while protecting participant privacy and maintaining data quality.

Coordinates and conducts cardiac clinical research studies, including participant recruitment, informed consent, clinical assessments, data and specimen collection, adverse-event monitoring, regulatory submissions, and study documentation. Ensures patient safety, protocol adherence, regulatory compliance, enrollment targets, and accurate reporting. Collaborates with investigators, sponsors, hospital teams, and research partners while supervising support staff and providing clinical research education.

Leads independent and collaborative experimental research in advanced materials, polymers, bio-based materials, nanomaterials, and environmental technologies. Responsibilities include designing studies, developing methods, analyzing data, managing laboratory infrastructure, mentoring researchers, preparing grants, publishing findings, coordinating multidisciplinary collaborations, and supporting research program growth through external funding and industry partnerships.

Supports systematic reviews and evidence synthesis on substance use, clinical care, public health, harm reduction, and health services. Responsibilities include literature searching, study screening, data extraction, quality and risk-of-bias appraisal, evidence organization, protocol development, synthesis, manuscript preparation, and research-team collaboration. The role requires careful application of established methodologies, accurate documentation, strong communication, and management of multiple review projects.

Supports systematic reviews and evidence synthesis related to substance use, clinical care, public health, and health services. Responsibilities include literature searching, study screening, data extraction, quality and risk-of-bias appraisal, evidence organization, protocol development, synthesis, manuscript preparation, and research team communication. The role requires accurate application of established methods, careful documentation, strong organization, and collaboration across multidisciplinary research projects.

Coordinates multiple clinical research studies involving patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Responsibilities include ethics submissions, participant recruitment and consent, visit scheduling, study procedures, sample and data collection, REDCap database management, regulatory compliance, documentation, data analysis, and research reporting. The role collaborates with investigators, clinical researchers, ethics boards, participants, and research staff, while potentially supervising research assistants and students.

Conduct advanced research on large foundation models and post-training techniques for specialized domains. Develop AI-driven systems, research prototypes, and software tools; collaborate with researchers, engineers, and cross-functional teams; publish findings in leading conferences and journals; and present work at industry events.

Design and implement large-scale workforce planning optimization models and production solver services using operations research, constraint programming, and mathematical optimization. Build scheduling, staffing, and resource allocation capabilities; validate solution quality, scalability, accuracy, and latency; integrate optimization engines into enterprise platforms; and collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, and workforce-management stakeholders.

Coordinates community-engaged research, partnership development, grant support, training, knowledge mobilization, advisory activities, and community relations for the Centre for Migration Studies. Builds reciprocal relationships with immigrant-serving organizations, Indigenous partners, researchers, and students; facilitates meetings and events; develops resources and training; supports research protocols and funding proposals; and may supervise assistants and trainees.

Supports injury research by cleaning, preparing, manipulating, and analyzing datasets according to project protocols. Prepares research reports, graphs, tables, manuscripts, grants, presentations, and knowledge translation materials. Conducts literature reviews, summarizes emerging research, contributes recommendations, and assists with project dissemination. The role reports to data management, biostatistics, and research leadership, while independently identifying challenges and helping coordinate project staff.

Monitors clinical study progress at investigative sites or remotely, ensuring trials are conducted, documented, and reported according to protocols, SOPs, ICH-GCP, and applicable regulations. Requires a scientific or health-related degree, clinical monitoring experience, regulatory knowledge, bilingual English/French communication, and willingness to travel 70%. Oncology monitoring experience is preferred.

Lead end-to-end pilot audits of frontier AI safety and security claims, including scoping, evidence review, interviews, analysis, risk management, stakeholder coordination, and report drafting. Refine audit methodologies and internal processes with the Standards Director while managing confidential information and contracted specialists. The role is fully remote, with travel at least twice per quarter.

Own the full lifecycle of novel subsurface imaging hardware, including mechanical and electrical system design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing, and remote deployment. Integrate instrumentation and data streams with exploration systems, support field commissioning, manage vendors and contractors, and contribute to hardware architecture, product planning, and development processes. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and geoscientists to create reliable datasets for mineral exploration and machine learning applications.

Conduct biochemical and cell-based experiments to understand and engineer protein complex assembly for neural activity readouts. Responsibilities include protein expression and purification, complex reconstitution, mammalian cell assays, variant characterization, experimental analysis, documentation, and inventory management. The role also supports assay development, molecular biology, high-throughput screening, and collaborative hypothesis generation.

Conduct research on AI systems and infrastructure, developing algorithms and frameworks to improve performance, scalability, efficiency, reliability, and automation. Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, academic, and industry teams; publish and present research; and mentor researchers and engineers. The role focuses on foundation models, post-training, agent systems, ML systems, distributed systems, AI accelerators, and autonomous infrastructure management.

Coordinates academic research theme activities, including seminars, symposia, Research Day, and seed grant competitions. Manages meetings, catering, travel, financial paperwork, account tracking, forecasting, communications, web content, and research metrics. Supports grant development, research collaborations, and investigator inquiries by connecting them with appropriate administrative teams. Requires strong organization, communication, independent judgment, and familiarity with academic research administration.

Coordinates multidisciplinary Arctic, alpine, and boreal ecosystem research projects, including planning, budgets, field logistics, reporting, grant development, stakeholder relationships, safety procedures, data dissemination, and team supervision. The role supports scientific publications, Indigenous community engagement, government reporting, international sample compliance, communications, and website maintenance while collaborating with researchers, students, northern partners, and university units.

Conduct empirical AI safety research with mentor guidance, owning projects from hypotheses and controlled experiments through analysis and technical writing. Build and debug evaluation harnesses, agent environments, datasets, monitoring methods, and post-training experiments. Investigate model failures, alignment, deception, misuse, multi-agent risks, and evaluation reliability. Produce reproducible code, experiment logs, research analyses, and papers for potential submission to leading machine learning conferences.

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.