Top Research Jobs in Vancouver

Coordinates a national influenza surveillance and vaccine-effectiveness evaluation program across multiple emergency-department sites. Develops protocols, standard operating procedures, data systems, ethics and information-sharing documentation, and pilot activities. Conducts quantitative and mixed-methods analyses, prepares reports and scholarly outputs, supports knowledge translation, and ensures compliance with privacy, ethics, and data-governance requirements. Collaborates with healthcare, public health, academic, government, and multi-site research partners while guiding graduate students and staff.

Conducts clinical research fieldwork, participant recruitment and enrollment, informed consent, medical history collection, vaccine study support, database development, data quality control, logical data checks, documentation, and study preparation. Provides technical guidance and training to research assistants while working independently under study protocols, SOPs, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines.

Manages and coordinates multiple academic community-systems research projects, including research ethics, grant applications, budgets, timelines, data collection, qualitative and quantitative analysis, knowledge transfer, reporting, and publication support. Supervises and mentors research staff, students, and interns; oversees research quality and deliverables; develops protocols and documentation; liaises with university research offices and community partners; and supports funding and project administration.

Leads clinical-genomic research activities for a pediatric rare disease initiative. Manages research priorities, grants, collaborations, ethics applications, data-sharing agreements, and institutional relationships. Provides advanced genetic counselling to participants and families, interprets genomic findings, oversees complex samples and results, and leads knowledge translation. Supervises research staff and trainees while ensuring participant-centered practices, regulatory compliance, and accurate communication of research information.

Leads multiple complex strategic initiatives advancing the Faculty of Medicine’s research enterprise. Responsibilities include strategic planning, environmental analysis, business cases, governance design, project risk and change management, partner engagement, resource planning, evaluation, reporting, and implementation. The role independently guides cross-functional teams, advises senior leadership, coordinates internal and external stakeholders, and integrates completed initiatives into sustainable research programs, infrastructure, services, and governance structures.

Provides technical and operational support for research greenhouses and field facilities. Responsibilities include greenhouse space scheduling, user support and training, horticultural tasks, nutrient and pest-management coordination, equipment safety, facility maintenance, SOP development, supply ordering, invoicing, tours, and emergency response. The role also guides students, supports field operations, coordinates repairs and service providers, and helps researchers establish and maintain projects.

Coordinates an applied health research project involving literature reviews, qualitative interviews and focus groups, thematic analysis, research ethics submissions, data management, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge mobilization. Develops work plans, tracks deliverables, prepares reports and research materials, supports grant applications, and guides junior research staff, trainees, and students while working with investigators, clinicians, families, and community partners.

Conduct competitive, market, and regulatory research across public and internal sources. Triangulate signals, assess source reliability, and synthesize findings into executive briefs, dashboards, and recommendations. Partner with sales, product, strategy, and leadership to support active decisions, while administering intelligence trackers, source libraries, and research platforms. The role requires strong analytical judgment, polished executive communication, self-direction, and familiarity with energy storage or clean-energy markets.

Coordinates MS and NMO clinical trials from study startup through closeout. Responsibilities include participant recruitment, informed consent, clinical assessments, investigational medication administration, infusion monitoring, biological sample handling, adverse-event management, regulatory compliance, data entry, documentation, quality assurance, and staff training. The role works independently with investigators, sponsors, CROs, clinical departments, and research teams while ensuring participant safety and adherence to ICH-GCP and applicable regulations.

Provides research support for a cardiac surgery clinical outcomes program. Responsibilities include maintaining project databases, entering and exporting data, formatting research materials, assisting with grant application administration, and supporting routine research activities. The role requires accuracy, confidentiality, organization, effective communication, independent work, teamwork, and the ability to manage deadlines and competing priorities.

The Research Manager will coordinate multi-site cardiovascular, genomics, health data, AI, and precision-health research projects, including the VECTOR study. Responsibilities include developing work plans, managing timelines, ethics and regulatory submissions, coordinating data access and stakeholders, preparing grants and reports, overseeing REDCap databases and data integrity, supporting analysis, managing budgets, and supervising research personnel.

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 independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Conduct bioanalytical and pharmacokinetic research supporting antibody therapeutic and T-cell engager programs. Generate and analyze biological sample data, perform ELISA and MSD ligand-binding assays, develop bioanalytical methods, define PK strategies, and collaborate with pharmacology, safety, modeling, protein science, and biology teams to advance discovery programs toward clinical development.

Assists with inventory, care, and assessment of a zooarchaeology collection. Responsibilities include preparing collection assessments, scheduling research meetings, training participants on standard procedures, recording inventory data, maintaining supplies, and safeguarding research records and irreplaceable archaeological samples under established laboratory protocols.

Executes rodent in vivo studies across multiple drug discovery programs, including dosing, blood collection, necropsy, tissue harvesting, sample processing, animal monitoring, and study documentation. Coordinates timelines and sample needs with scientists, operational leads, and vivarium staff. Ensures IACUC compliance, animal welfare, data integrity, and protocol adherence while troubleshooting routine issues. Provides technical training and flexible weekend or time-sensitive study coverage.

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.

Build and scale secure automated patching infrastructure for open-source vulnerabilities. Develop Rust and Unix-based CLI tools, package-manager integrations, APIs, testing tools, and developer-facing remediation workflows. Debug ecosystem-specific issues, contribute to JavaScript, React, and TypeScript frontends, and collaborate with security researchers to deliver certified packages and high-quality patches at scale.

Manages early-phase clinical research projects from initiation through closure, coordinating sponsors, sites, CRAs, vendors, and internal teams. Oversees site activation, recruitment, monitoring deliverables, regulatory documentation, training, budgets, timelines, quality, risk, and change control. Supports clinical monitoring, TMF inspection readiness, data review, study trackers, and dashboards while ensuring compliance with GCP, ICH, FDA, Canadian regulations, SOPs, and study requirements.

Supports digital marketing and patient recruitment campaigns by launching ads, monitoring KPIs, analyzing performance, updating study materials, coordinating sponsor revisions, and tracking deliverables. The role collaborates with internal teams, sponsors, and external partners while maintaining accurate campaign information and compliance-aligned content across multiple platforms.

Conduct original research on reliable agentic AI, developing methods for simulation, evaluation, optimization, regression control, and continuous learning. Analyze agent failures, traces, and human feedback; create experiments and prototypes; and translate research into production-facing systems. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to technical strategy, and provide rigorous experimental evidence. The role requires strong research depth, publication or open-source contributions, hands-on Python development, and expertise in LLM agents or agentic systems.

The Director of Innovation Management leads a team to drive innovative solutions for mountain athletes, managing a long-term innovation portfolio and overseeing product commercialization from concept to market.

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.

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.