{"id":16777,"date":"2026-04-27T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?page_id=16777"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:54:11","slug":"careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/banner-white-red-wave-1-1600x700.png); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Careers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognitive science is the study of how minds work\u2014how people perceive, learn, remember, make decisions, and communicate\u2014drawing from psychology, neuroscience, computer science\/AI, linguistics, and philosophy. That mix gives you a rare advantage: you learn to understand both&nbsp;<strong>people<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>systems<\/strong>, and you get comfortable using evidence to solve messy, real-world problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an undergraduate degree in cognitive science, many grads go into careers like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>User experience (UX) and product design<\/strong>: improving apps, websites, and devices by understanding attention, memory, and human error.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Human-centered tech and AI<\/strong>: helping build better chatbots, recommendation systems, or \u201chuman-in-the-loop\u201d tools, and spotting when technology confuses or misleads people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Data and research roles<\/strong>: running surveys and experiments, analyzing results, and turning findings into practical recommendations (in industry, government, or non-profits).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marketing and consumer insights<\/strong>: studying why people choose what they choose\u2014how persuasion, habits, and social influence work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Education and learning design<\/strong>: creating training, online courses, or educational tools grounded in how learning actually happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Health and human services<\/strong>: roles that benefit from strong understanding of cognition and behavior (often paired with extra training, certificates, or graduate school).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cognitive science degree is also great preparation for graduate programs in psychology, neuroscience, computer science\/AI, human-computer interaction, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, education, or business. Even if you don\u2019t know exactly what job you want yet, cognitive science sets you up with flexible, transferable skills: critical thinking, research literacy, writing and communication, and a scientific way of understanding people\u2014skills that matter in almost any career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cognitive Science majors are particularly valuable to startups, as they can do a great variety of things\u2014come up with simple experiments, understand computer programming well enough to talk to developers, and so on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"our-alumni\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A sample of employers and roles held by Cognitive Science graduates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Microsoft\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Cloud Solution Architect\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Shopify\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Senior Product Manager\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Ubisoft Toronto\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    User Research Moderator\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Warner Bros. Discovery\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Senior Software Developer\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Accenture\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Data &amp; AI Consultant Team Lead\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Kinaxis\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Machine Learning Developer\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    ThreeKit\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    CTO &amp; Founder\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Stanford University\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Post-Doctoral Researcher, Neuroscience\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Carnegie Mellon University\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Post-Doctoral Researcher\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    Government of Canada\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Senior Policy Analyst\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    The Royal Mental Health Centre\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Behavioral Therapist\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100   \">\n    \n                        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h2 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n                    MicroMetrics\n            <\/h2>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n        \n                    <div class=\"flex flex-col px-6\">\n                <p class=\"text-base text-cu-black-700\">\n                    Chief Experience Officer\n                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n        \n            <\/div>\n    \n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alumni, we would love to highlight your academic, professional, and personal experiences both here at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and since graduation. Your contribution can inspire current and future  students. Share how your studies in cognitive science have impacted your life and accomplishments.<br>Complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/stay-in-touch\/\">Stay in Touch<\/a> form so we can let you know of upcoming events and Departmental news!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive science is the study of how minds work\u2014how people perceive, learn, remember, make decisions, and communicate\u2014drawing from psychology, neuroscience, computer science\/AI, linguistics, and philosophy. That mix gives you a rare advantage: you learn to understand both&nbsp;people&nbsp;and&nbsp;systems, and you get comfortable using evidence to solve messy, real-world problems. 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