Top Research Jobs in Vancouver

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.

Conduct clinical trial site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits. Ensure protocol compliance, data integrity, and patient safety; collaborate with investigators and site staff; resolve data queries; and support preparation and review of study documentation, protocols, and clinical study reports. The role requires at least two years of CRA experience, scientific or healthcare education, ICH-GCP knowledge, strong communication and organization skills, and approximately 60% travel.

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.

Supports biomedical research by preparing, cleaning, integrating, analyzing, visualizing, and reporting clinical, molecular, genomic, and imaging data. Develops basic scripts and analytical tools, performs quality checks, maintains research data and computational resources, documents workflows, and contributes to reports, presentations, publications, and grant applications under senior team guidance.

Leads development of Refugee Lens Investing Canada by building university and institutional partnerships, coordinating major competitive research funding applications, securing core and project funding, establishing governance and operating structures, and creating a national Community of Practice. The role coordinates researchers, funders, nonprofits, investors, and government partners while developing research agendas, funding pipelines, budgets, partnership models, and sustainable operating plans.

Supports MS MRI research studies through participant clinical and cognitive assessments, MRI data quality control, data entry, cognitive test scoring, database maintenance, documentation, and regulatory-compliant study activities. The role collaborates with researchers, clinicians, programmers, and technical staff, attends research meetings, maintains confidentiality, and contributes to additional MS MRI and cell therapy projects.

Coordinates pediatric oncology and hematology clinical research protocols across multiple sites. Responsibilities include participant screening and registration, protocol and regulatory documentation, data entry, adverse event reporting, specimen shipment, database management, audit preparation, and liaison with clinical and laboratory teams. The role requires accurate, ethical, and confidential handling of clinical trial information and independent work after training.

Manages the Institute of Mental Health’s research strategy, projects, budgets, timelines, grants, fellowships, stimulus programs, reporting, and knowledge dissemination. Advises researchers on policies, ethics, funding opportunities, and documentation; coordinates manuscripts, proposals, presentations, stakeholder communications, meetings, and digital content. The role monitors research metrics, assesses risks, supports strategic initiatives, and liaises with faculty, health authorities, funders, government organizations, donors, and community partners.

Leads Aritzia’s Research & Insights function, shaping understanding of consumers, markets, competitors, and industry trends. Translates external research and intelligence into actionable strategic insights, supports growth decisions, anticipates emerging retail trends, and builds scalable research capabilities, partnerships, and governance. The role also manages the department’s day-to-day operations, develops team talent, and influences cross-functional stakeholders.

Supports clinical and observational sleep research by capturing and entering data, compiling and analyzing datasets, and assisting with omics and physiologic signal-processing research using R. Maintains study records, inventories, reimbursements, and regulatory documentation while coordinating with research staff, physicians, and hospital personnel. Works under supervision, follows study protocols, meets strict deadlines, and escalates issues appropriately.

Monitors clinical studies at investigative sites or remotely, ensuring trials comply with protocols, SOPs, ICH-GCP, and applicable regulations. Reviews study progress, documentation, and reporting. Requires a scientific or health-related bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, clinical monitoring experience, knowledge of clinical trial regulations, and willingness to travel extensively. Oncology monitoring experience is preferred. Bilingual English and French proficiency is required for the applicable role.

Provides technical support for undergraduate biology teaching laboratories by developing and maintaining experiments, equipment, organisms, reagents, and supplies. Troubleshoots laboratory procedures, supports instructors and students, trains technicians and assistants, and ensures compliance with laboratory health, safety, environmental, and animal care regulations. The role also develops and modifies teaching exercises, maintains organism cultures, oversees laboratory readiness, and works independently with course instructors and teaching staff.

Conduct research and engineering experiments on adapting, evaluating, optimizing, and deploying open-weight large language models for enterprise use cases. Responsibilities include dataset curation, fine-tuning with LoRA and QLoRA, distributed training support, evaluation framework design, benchmarking, RAG analysis, inference optimization, and communicating reproducible findings through documentation, demos, and presentations.

Lead rigorous research involving frontier AI models, theoretical computer science, computational physics, mathematical proofs, algorithms, numerical experiments, simulations, and high-performance computing. Evaluate research outputs for correctness, novelty, reproducibility, and significance; identify limitations and reasoning failures; document findings in concise research memos; and recommend promising open problems and research directions. The role requires independent judgment, strong scholarly contributions, deep computational research expertise, and excellent technical communication.

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.

Performs protein purification, analytical characterization, developability assays, and affinity measurements for multispecific antibody therapeutics. Designs and executes experiments, troubleshoots methods, develops new technologies, writes SOPs, analyzes data, presents findings, and collaborates cross-functionally while maintaining laboratory standards and compliance.

Leads applied research for oral care, digestive health, and allergy R&D. Develops molecular biology and immunology methods, designs preclinical studies using 2D and 3D cell models, analyzes data, and generates mechanistic insights and scientific claims. Collaborates cross-functionally, communicates findings internally and externally, supports publications and intellectual property, and advances scientific capabilities and thought leadership.

Conduct clinical site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and termination visits; maintain site relationships; protect participants; ensure protocol, GCP, SOP, and regulatory compliance; support recruitment; evaluate data quality, site performance, drug accountability, and regulatory documentation. The role requires independent problem-solving, effective communication, clinical research expertise, and proficiency with CTMS, EDMS, and Microsoft Office.

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.

Build, update, and review three-statement financial models for publicly traded companies. Develop sector expertise, improve modeling standards and dashboards, document best practices, conduct company research, support client service, contribute to product improvements, and train new team members. The role requires strong financial modeling, Excel, research, accounting, deadline management, and communication skills.

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.

Conduct clinical trial site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits. Ensure protocol compliance, data integrity, and patient safety; collaborate with investigators and site staff; review and resolve data queries; and contribute to study documentation, protocols, and clinical study reports. The role requires approximately 60% travel and independent work in a sponsor-dedicated clinical research environment.

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.

Review algorithm-generated trades across managed portfolios, resolve abnormal orders, and identify operational bottlenecks in managed accounts. Support daily portfolio management and trading workflows while collaborating with trading, investment operations, product, and engineering teams. Help improve trade execution processes, portfolio tracking, and operational risk communication.

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.