Top Research Jobs in Vancouver

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.

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 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.

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.

Supports academic clinical research studies through participant recruitment and enrollment, informed consent, study visits, data collection and entry, breathing assessments, sample processing, equipment maintenance, inventory management, and shipment coordination. The role follows strict study protocols, maintains confidential records, administers questionnaires, schedules tests, and provides operational support for respiratory medicine clinical trials.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.