Top Research Jobs in Sydney

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.

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.

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.

Conducts clinical trial site monitoring to protect participants, verify source data, and ensure compliance with ICH GCP, regulations, and SOPs. Builds relationships with investigators and site personnel, supports regulatory and ethics submissions, drives participant recruitment, prepares site documents and plans, and performs site selection, initiation, monitoring, close-out, pharmacy, and co-monitoring visits onsite or remotely.

Independently monitors clinical trial sites, supports patient recruitment, builds investigator and site relationships, partners with sponsors and internal teams, and ensures participant safety, regulatory compliance, trial quality, and data integrity across early- and late-phase studies.

Conducts clinical trial site monitoring and serves as the relationship manager between investigators, sites, Novotech, and sponsors. Ensures participant rights, data integrity, ICH GCP compliance, regulatory adherence, site documentation, recruitment targets, and timely study delivery. Responsibilities include site selection, initiation, monitoring, closeout, pharmacy and co-monitoring visits, regulatory support, and collaboration with internal clinical and startup teams.

Provides first-line technical support for production data processes used by researchers, traders, and business users. Monitors pipelines, investigates failures and data-quality issues, validates datasets, assesses business impact, coordinates resolution with engineering teams, and communicates updates to stakeholders. Maintains JIRA workflows, contributes to monitoring and documentation improvements, supports onboarding, and assists with live data collection and historical backfills.

Manages and monitors clinical trial sites in compliance with ICH GCP, regulatory requirements, SOPs, and study plans. Conducts site initiation, routine monitoring, source data verification, eCRF review, query resolution, regulatory document review, investigational product accountability, and audit-readiness activities. Maintains trial systems, prepares monitoring reports and plans, follows up on safety events, supports investigator and study-team meetings, and may train site staff and new employees. The role requires independent site management and approximately 60% travel from Sydney.

Leads research, prototyping, and maturation of automation and mechatronics technologies for future manufacturing. Designs integrated systems involving robotics, controls, sensing, machine vision, and software; conducts experiments and proof-of-concept development; evaluates feasibility, scalability, safety, reliability, and cost; and transfers production-ready technologies to NPI teams. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, and develops reusable automation platforms, standards, and engineering knowledge.

Supports legal and business research, current awareness, training, and management of physical and digital library resources for a law firm. The role involves responding to research requests, maintaining collections, working with information providers, monitoring emerging technologies including AI, supporting legal research platform training, and improving research workflows and user experience.

Own APAC solar and battery energy storage system research, including market analysis, forecasting models, proprietary datasets, policy assessment, and commercial research publications. Present insights to clients and industry audiences, provide briefings, respond to inquiries, and collaborate with consulting, marketing, and commercial teams. Focus markets include Australia, New Zealand, and other developed APAC markets.

Design, develop, and deploy software solutions for automated trading systems while collaborating with researchers on technology priorities.

Translate investment philosophy, research, and market insights into practical solutions for advisers and clients. Advise on portfolio construction, manager selection, asset allocation, and performance; deliver investment training, presentations, research, communications, and sales collateral. Present recommendations to clients, boards, and investment committees, and manage relationships with external research houses. The role requires strong investment knowledge, analytical and modelling skills, client communication abilities, and experience in financial advice or investment-related roles.

Conduct independent research and analysis of new revenue streams across a retail lending portfolio. Lead end-to-end market scans, product and distribution economic analysis, business cases, financial, operational and risk modeling, implementation recommendations, and client-ready documentation. The role requires strong retail lending, consulting, market sizing, product innovation, and fintech experience, with work performed closely with an Australian fintech client.

Leads immunology clinical research from target prioritization and preclinical translation through first-in-disease programs. Partners with discovery, translational medicine, clinical development, and business development teams to evaluate assets, shape clinical strategies, design early-phase studies, define biomarkers and patient populations, and support go/no-go decisions. Serves as a hands-on clinical subject matter expert in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, representing the organization with scientific leaders, investigators, regulators, and internal stakeholders.

Manages country-level clinical trial site start-up, including regulatory and ethics submissions, essential document review, contracts and budget negotiation, site identification, informed consent adaptation, eTMF quality control, timeline tracking, and regulatory intelligence. Serves as a primary liaison among sites, sponsors, vendors, and internal teams while ensuring compliance with local regulations, ICH/GCP, ISO 14155, and study timelines. May mentor staff and support start-up strategy development.

Research Analysts support economic consulting projects through statistical analysis, financial and economic modeling, industry analysis, literature reviews, and research. They work with senior consultants, principals, and academic advisors on complex issues involving finance, competition, energy, regulation, and corporate economics. The role requires interpreting messy data, applying economic theory, building models, monitoring industry trends, and communicating complex concepts effectively to support clients, law firms, corporations, governments, and expert-witness engagements.

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.

11-week PhD internship developing, back-testing and implementing quantitative trading strategies. Build and improve mathematical models, translate algorithms into code, analyze unconventional data sources, and deploy signals in live trading while collaborating with senior researchers.

Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of a Gen3-based research data platform on Google Cloud Platform. Responsibilities include coordinating single-cell omics and clinical-data ETL workflows, developing integrations with analysis tools, managing Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, and CI/CD infrastructure, gathering stakeholder requirements, contributing code and architecture decisions, improving developer tooling, and mentoring team members.

Design, develop, and support production-grade trading applications, APIs, distributed systems, web tools, deployment automation, and workflow platforms. Build scalable, observable, resilient software for traders, researchers, operations teams, and engineers. Collaborate with stakeholders, contribute to architecture, automate deployment and operational processes, and support systems across global production environments. The role emphasizes reliability, performance, maintainability, cloud technologies, and ownership throughout the software lifecycle.