Biomedical Engineering Lead: Open Artificial Brain Life Support (ABLS) Project (Remote, Volunteer, Full Time)

Organization: Right to Live Canada
Location: Remote
Time Commitment: Full-time volunteer commitment, 35 hours per week. Duration negotiable, four month minimum.

This is a remote volunteer opportunity with Right to Live Canada, a virtual-office based Canadian non-profit start-up.

------ THE MISSION

Right to Live Canada exists to realize the right to live as a practical, supported, executable choice.

We were founded in response to systemic poverty-driven euthanasia amongst Canadians with disabilities: cases where Canadians choose MAiD because they cannot access the essentials required to continue living. This is a specific form of economic euthanasia: euthanasia where a preferable living future existed, but was not achieved.

That crisis remains our founding application point. It is not the boundary of our work.

Right to Live Canada is building Continuity: the service, financial, technological, and institutional architecture required to keep life connected to preferable living futures. We work from the recognition that biological escape velocity may become achievable for a significant portion of people alive today, and that the right to live must now be pursued with the seriousness, urgency, and scale appropriate to that possibility.

Our four core areas are:

● Continuity Service — developing a service to identify, propose, finance and execute preferable living futures in the event of potential death
● Continuity Insurance — developing a finance model for Continuity Service in the event of potential death scenarios
● Social Brokerage — developing a system to productize and sell the anonymized outcome of a life supported to the global market as an impact product in exchange for the capital to accomplish it, in order to fund those who cannot afford Continuity Service or Insurance
● Corporate Farming — developing a global-scale system to take concepts, form a structure around them starting with a team, incubate them internally and nurture their growth towards incorporation, and then emitting them as formed non-profits dedicated to their founding concept such as a technology, project, infrastructure or issue.

Right to Live Canada is a founder-centric, early-stage non-profit pursuing rapid national and global expansion. We use the advantages of the non-profit form — volunteer-class labor, sponsorship sales, grants, subsidized infrastructure, open development, impact monetization, and institutional farming — to uphold and extend the right to live for humans and, ultimately, other conscious beings.

------ ROLE DESCRIPTION

This is a full-time, volunteer, and remote role for a Biomedical Engineer supporting the Open ABLS (Artificial Brain Life Support) project.

Open ABLS is an open-source engineering initiative developing a non-clinical artificial brain life support research platform. The project begins with a public bench prototype consisting of pumps, tubing, sensors, software, artificial loads, data logging, alarms, and control systems. Every design revision, test, failure, and improvement is published openly to accelerate development.

The Biomedical Engineer serves as a multidisciplinary engineering contributor, helping bridge biological principles with practical engineering implementation. Working across mechanical, fluid, electrical, and software systems, this role helps ensure that engineering decisions remain consistent with physiological principles while supporting the development of a robust, testable, and openly documented research platform. The role is focused exclusively on a non-clinical engineering system and does not involve patient care or clinical activities.

Working closely with the Scientific Advisor, Perfusion/Life-Support Advisor, Hardware Lead, Fluid Loop Lead, Electronics Lead, Software Lead, and Test Lead, the Biomedical Engineer contributes to system architecture, subsystem integration, prototype evaluation, experimental design, and technical problem solving.

Responsibilities include evaluating engineering concepts against biological requirements, assisting with subsystem integration, contributing to sensor selection, supporting experimental planning, reviewing technical documentation, identifying engineering risks, assisting with validation activities, and helping translate scientific concepts into practical engineering solutions.

This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who enjoys interdisciplinary engineering, rapid prototyping, and solving complex technical challenges within an open-source research environment.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Degree or equivalent experience in Biomedical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Strong understanding of physiology and biomedical systems.
• Experience working on multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across mechanical, electrical, software, and scientific disciplines.
• Comfortable working remotely with a high degree of ownership and follow-through.

Preferred

• Experience developing medical or laboratory devices.
• Experience with physiological sensors or instrumentation.
• Knowledge of fluid systems or perfusion technology.
• Experience with CAD, electronics, or embedded systems.
• Startup or prototype development experience.
• Interest in open-source engineering and continuity technologies.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

This is a full-time volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 35 hours per week. Right to Live Canada is an early-stage, founder-led organization pursuing rapid national and global expansion. The role is best suited to someone who is comfortable with startup intensity, high responsibility, and a culture of serious dedication to the mission.

------ HOW TO APPLY

Please email your resume to volunteer@righttolive.ca to apply.

Thank you for your consideration.