Top Research Jobs in Sydney

Support development and backtesting of quantitative trading strategies: translate models to code, analyze data (including unconventional sources), and implement/monitor trading signals in live environments under senior mentorship.

Research and develop AI-powered audio source separation and extraction algorithms for speech and real-world sounds. Train and evaluate models for single- and multi-microphone recordings, challenging acoustic conditions, perceptual quality, and real-time performance. Collaborate with DSP and embedded software teams to deploy algorithms on physical devices, while contributing to demonstrations, patents, and research publications.

Research and develop AI-powered audio understanding algorithms for real-time device deployment. Responsibilities include training and evaluating sound event detection, localization, acoustic scene, anomaly detection, and multimodal models; building datasets and evaluation pipelines; optimizing accuracy, latency, and compute cost; collaborating with DSP and software engineers; and contributing to product prototypes, patents, and research publications.

Develop agentic workflows that automate audio machine learning research, including data preparation, training, evaluation, hyperparameter tuning, benchmarking, regression testing, experiment tracking, and reporting. Build reliable tools for GPU scheduling, artifact management, reproducible execution, and LLM-agent integration with research resources. Collaborate with audio researchers to create reusable workflows, dashboards, and reports for real-time audio processing algorithms.

Supports clinical trial execution through participant prescreening, screening, enrollment, informed consent, documentation, data entry, investigational product accountability, IRT/IWRS use, sample processing, scheduling, study procedure coordination, monitor communication, and administrative activities. The role is part-time, approximately eight months, based onsite in Macquarie Park, with possible shift and Saturday work.

Conduct clinical research in mental health and substance use disorders, including large-scale neuroimaging analyses, data collection, clinical trial coordination, and psychopharmacotherapy research. Collaborate across hospital and university systems, contribute to publications, reports, presentations, and grants, and mentor junior researchers and higher degree students.

Supports equity research for insurance and diversified financial institutions in Australia. Responsibilities include building and updating financial models, analyzing market and macroeconomic trends, preparing research reports and investment recommendations, maintaining presentations, supporting reporting periods, and responding to client and trading requests. The role also involves improving research processes through LLM, agentic tools, and automation.

Conducts clinical trial site monitoring from qualification and initiation through closeout. Ensures protocol compliance, data integrity, regulatory readiness, site training, documentation quality, recruitment progress, safety reporting, and study supply accountability. Manages site issues, performs on-site and remote visits, updates clinical systems and trial master files, and collaborates with study teams to meet project goals. Requires independent judgment, strong communication, clinical research knowledge, and extensive travel.

Senior Clinical Research Associate responsible for managing clinical trial sites from qualification and initiation through closeout. Ensures protocol compliance, data quality, regulatory adherence, recruitment progress, site training, documentation, study supply accountability, and audit readiness. Conducts on-site and remote monitoring visits, resolves site issues, maintains CTMS and trial documentation, and collaborates with study teams. Requires at least four years of CRA experience in Australia or New Zealand, oncology trial experience, extensive travel flexibility, and the ability to work independently in a matrix environment.

Conduct site qualification, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits for clinical trials. Ensure protocol compliance, data integrity, and patient safety; collaborate with investigators and site staff; resolve data queries; and support preparation and review of protocols and clinical study reports.

Conduct independent and collaborative musculoskeletal health research; contribute to publications, conferences, and research outputs; develop research skills; engage academic, clinical, industry, and professional stakeholders; mentor students; support administration; and promote an inclusive research culture. The role requires a relevant PhD or near completion, original research experience, scholarly outputs, statistical software experience, strong communication and organizational skills, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Provides in-house clinical research support across assigned studies, maintaining Trial Master Files and essential documents, managing CTMS data and site milestones, coordinating investigator site files and trial materials, supporting audits and quality control, and assisting CRAs with monitoring visit preparation and follow-up activities in compliance with ICH GCP, regulatory requirements, and SOPs.

Provides in-house clinical research support by maintaining Trial Master Files, managing clinical documentation and CTMS data, coordinating investigator site files and trial materials, supporting audits and quality control, and assisting CRAs with monitoring visit preparation. Requires at least 12 months of in-house CRA or relevant clinical administration experience, with life sciences, pharmaceutical, CRO, or healthcare experience preferred.

Research and critically assess Australian and global fund managers, conduct manager interviews, write rating notes and research reports, and provide fund recommendations to investment clients. The role also contributes to thought leadership, methodology development, stakeholder collaboration, client inquiries, and analytical projects. Strong expertise in investment management, fund due diligence, financial markets, quantitative analysis, and Australian equities or fixed income is required.

Provides clinical trial support by leading accurate data capture and entry, maintaining regulatory and Good Clinical Practice compliance, supporting trial coordination, reviewing ethics and safety requirements, and facilitating communication with stakeholders. The role also contributes to research meetings, safety activities, record management, and timely resolution of routine trial-related issues under supervision.

Conduct geospatial research and analysis for AI-training workflows. Review complex spatial questions, identify missing information, establish assumptions, select data sources and tools, create step-by-step analytical workflows, define deliverables, and validate results. Work may involve crisis response, damage assessment, agriculture, site selection, market expansion, supply chain analysis, and forecasting. QA assignments include reviewing completed work and providing guideline-based feedback.

Conduct equity research on insurance and diversified financial institutions across Australia and APAC. Build financial models, forecasts, valuation frameworks, investment recommendations, and target prices; analyze earnings, regulation, capital management, M&A, and industry trends. Produce company notes, thematic reports, and sector research while engaging institutional investors, company executives, and internal stakeholders. Support generative AI initiatives, maintain research governance and compliance, and mentor junior team members.

Conduct interdisciplinary digital humanities research using AI-powered text analysis, bibliometric methods, machine learning, and large language models. Curate and structure text corpora from academic, media, and social sources; develop and evaluate classification pipelines; design prompting strategies; interpret results through philosophical and psychological frameworks; publish findings; and support open science through public code, data, and documentation.

Coordinates visiting researcher, scholar, and adviser programs, including visitor experience, travel, accommodation, scheduling, onboarding, stakeholder communications, events, budgets, procurement, reporting, and documentation. Builds relationships with researchers, policymakers, and internal stakeholders while supporting seminars, workshops, conferences, and external research engagement initiatives. Contributes to continuous improvement and promotes the department’s research activities.

Conducts medicines policy, pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness, and health outcomes research. Responsibilities include managing large datasets, performing statistical analyses, coordinating multidisciplinary projects, preparing manuscripts and grant applications, presenting findings, completing ethics documentation, and mentoring students. The role requires publication experience, systematic review capability, strong project coordination, and proficiency in R, Stata, or SAS.

Supports university research administration data and systems by developing reports, maintaining data quality, designing integrations, and enabling compliance and performance reporting. The role collaborates with academic, technical, government, and vendor stakeholders; translates business requirements into technical solutions; supports research systems and interfaces; and contributes to data governance, benchmarking, and research policy initiatives.

Conduct life sciences research supporting advanced AI evaluation. Create rigorous scientific problems, develop reproducible Python analyses and simulations, process biological datasets, validate computational results, review scientific reasoning and code, identify methodological errors, apply statistical techniques, and document findings clearly. The role requires strong practical Python skills alongside advanced education and research experience in biology, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, neuroscience, genetics, computational biology, or related fields.

Conduct adversarial research against anti-bot and web fingerprinting systems, reverse engineer defenses, build and improve HTTP client solutions and machine-learning data collection methods to scale Bright Data's web data collection platform.

Conduct independent and collaborative immunotherapy research, develop original scholarly work, and contribute to the School’s research agenda. The role involves advancing expertise in T cell immunology, mentoring students, building academic and industry networks, participating in Faculty and School activities, and supporting strategic priorities. Candidates need a relevant PhD, research experience, strong communication and organizational skills, and unrestricted Australian work rights.

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 study documentation, protocols, and clinical study reports. The role is home-based in Australia and requires local and interstate travel.