Top Research Jobs in Sydney

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.

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.

Supports equity research coverage of Australian diversified financial companies through financial modeling, valuation, earnings forecasting, industry analysis, and thematic research. Analyzes financial statements, regulatory filings, market developments, and macroeconomic trends; prepares research reports and company updates; engages with management teams, institutional investors, and clients; and contributes to marketing and global research initiatives.

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.

Provides administrative and coordination support for research infrastructure and biobanking activities. Responsibilities include managing correspondence, meetings, records, stakeholder communications, vendor visits, equipment installations, laboratory access, schedules, and logistics. The role supports researchers, laboratory staff, service providers, and equipment vendors while maintaining organised documentation and facilitating smooth research operations.

Supervise financial research publications by ensuring regulatory compliance, business-rule adherence, brand integrity, accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to house style. Coordinate with analysts and production teams, edit and rewrite reports, improve readability and visual appeal, and support innovative publication initiatives. The role requires strong English and numeracy skills, financial rigor, attention to detail, design aptitude, and the Series 16 supervisory analyst qualification.

Oversee clinical trial monitoring across multiple sites, ensuring protocol compliance, regulatory adherence, data integrity, and GCP standards. Conduct site visits, resolve performance issues, support data collection, train site staff and CRAs, and maintain stakeholder relationships. The role requires independent management of complex trials, strong organizational and problem-solving skills, and approximately 60% travel across Australia.

Leads end-to-end clinical study operations for an orthopedic medical device portfolio, including feasibility, site selection, CRO and vendor oversight, study execution, monitoring resourcing, compliance, inspection readiness, and risk mitigation. Partners with cross-functional and global teams to manage timelines, budgets, documentation, quality, and regulatory requirements while supporting evidence generation and patient outcomes.

Leads clinical research projects involving data cleaning, exploratory analysis, regression modeling, statistical testing, reporting, and stakeholder presentations. Manages clinical studies and site communications, supports regulatory data requirements and research databases, and collaborates with data scientists, engineers, and product specialists. The role also includes orthopedic modeling, radiological analysis, code repository maintenance, and mentoring interns.

Leads YouGov Sport’s consumer research business across Australia and APAC, overseeing research design, project delivery, client relationships, team management, data analysis, reporting, quality, and business growth. The role manages a team of researchers, develops bespoke and syndicated research solutions, presents insights to sports clients, supports proposals and new business, and contributes to marketing, PR, and expansion of sports research capabilities.

Support end-to-end analytical projects to translate client objectives into study designs, gather and validate data, interpret modelling outcomes, create client reports and visualisations, respond to queries, and build stakeholder relationships to deliver actionable marketing insights.

Participate in a structured CRA training program covering clinical trial monitoring, ICH-GCP, Australian regulations, site visits, regulatory tracking, recruitment, data completion, and study documentation. Build practical skills through classroom, virtual, and on-the-job learning while collaborating with study teams and clinical research sites. Successful trainees progress into Clinical Research Associate roles.

Performs clinical trial site monitoring and management across selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits. Ensures protocol, GCP, ICH, regulatory, and sponsor compliance; supports recruitment, training, regulatory submissions, data and document management, TMF and ISF maintenance, issue escalation, visit reporting, and site financial administration. Collaborates with study teams and sites to support successful clinical trial execution.

Conduct independent and collaborative immunology research within the School of Medical Sciences, developing research expertise and contributing to scholarly outputs. Responsibilities include maintaining research quality, mentoring students, collaborating with academic and external stakeholders, presenting findings, supporting faculty activities, and completing administrative duties. The role requires a relevant doctorate, strong research capability, communication, planning, organizational skills, and computer literacy.

Manages and monitors clinical trial sites, ensuring compliance with ICH GCP, regulations, protocols, and SOPs. Responsibilities include site visits, source data verification, eCRF review, query resolution, regulatory document maintenance, investigational product accountability, safety event follow-up, audit readiness, reporting, and investigator coordination. The role requires independent site monitoring, collaboration within a matrix environment, occasional after-hours work, and travel to study sites 60% of the time.

Conduct and independently monitor clinical trial sites, ensuring participant safety, ethical trial conduct, data integrity, site performance, and patient recruitment. Build relationships with investigators, coordinators, pharmacists, sponsors, and internal teams while applying critical thinking to deliver assigned clinical research projects. CRA II candidates need at least six months of independent monitoring experience; CRA III candidates need at least two years.

Monitors clinical trial sites to protect participant rights, ensure accurate and verifiable data, and maintain compliance with ICH GCP, regulatory requirements, and SOPs. Builds relationships with investigators and site personnel, supports regulatory and ethics submissions, drives participant recruitment, prepares site-specific plans, and conducts selection, initiation, monitoring, close-out, pharmacy, and co-monitoring visits remotely or onsite.

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. Requires at least two years of CRA experience, a relevant bachelor’s degree, ICH-GCP knowledge, strong communication and organizational skills, and approximately 60% travel.

Coordinates research development across the Brain and Mind Centre, including grant identification, pre-award activities, multidisciplinary funding applications, partnerships, research governance, risk monitoring, and project delivery. The role supports strategic research priorities, builds internal and external collaborations, prepares proposals and reports, and enables clinical research activities while ensuring compliance with university policies and relevant clinical research frameworks.

Leads a team of research professionals responsible for maintaining accurate commercial real estate market data and portfolio analytics. Oversees company and property research, data collection, audits, publication workflows, market coverage, and client-focused reporting. Partners with sales and product teams to align research with market needs, develops territory improvement plans, and coaches team members to achieve performance goals and maintain high data quality.

Develop end-to-end reinforcement learning post-training for large language models operating across decentralized, high-latency consumer hardware. Responsibilities include building rollout ingestion, reward computation, policy updates, weight synchronization, asynchronous and off-policy algorithms, evaluation systems, and public model releases. The role requires strong Python and PyTorch engineering, hands-on RLHF/RLVR experience, and research ability in distributed or asynchronous reinforcement learning.

Develop efficient algorithms and systems for verifying untrusted decentralized training and inference. Responsibilities include modeling threats such as poisoning, free-riding, data extraction, and reward manipulation; designing statistically calibrated tests with controlled error rates across heterogeneous hardware; and deploying verification services in production inference systems.

Build and optimize decentralized distributed pretraining systems for frontier-scale models across heterogeneous consumer GPUs and unreliable internet connections. Responsibilities include model, data, and pipeline parallelism; communication optimization; elasticity and fault tolerance; checkpointing and recovery; and monitoring throughput, bottlenecks, and model quality. The role requires hands-on PyTorch distributed training experience, strong production Python engineering, and demonstrated execution through shipped systems, research code, open-source work, or substantial projects.

Build and own a geo-distributed inference stack for reinforcement learning rollouts and future model serving. Responsibilities include pipeline-parallel execution, routing, transport, serving-engine development, failure handling, and designing algorithms for consumer hardware connected over unreliable public networks. The role requires hands-on experience shipping inference systems, research ability in distributed inference or adjacent fields, and expertise with low-bandwidth, high-latency networking.

Oversee medical device clinical trials from site qualification through closeout. Lead on-site and remote monitoring, manage investigator relationships, verify source data and compliance, review adverse events and protocol deviations, support site start-up and ethics submissions, train site personnel, and drive recruitment, retention, data integrity, and patient safety across multiple studies.