Build 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 Build Lead 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 Build Lead is responsible for keeping the project moving. This role owns the version roadmap, weekly build targets, milestone planning, release discipline, integration schedule, and blocker management. The Build Lead ensures that individual subsystem teams remain coordinated and that every development cycle produces a working improvement to the machine.

Working closely with all technical leads, the Build Lead coordinates build priorities, resolves integration issues, tracks progress, and ensures that the project follows the Open ABLS development philosophy of Build → Test → Fail → Log → Revise → Release → Replicate → Accelerate.

Responsibilities include coordinating weekly build objectives, managing project milestones, facilitating communication between subsystem leads, maintaining the build roadmap, identifying technical blockers, tracking version progress, coordinating releases, and helping ensure that every revision moves the machine forward.

This is a high-ownership leadership role suited to someone who enjoys organizing multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving projects from concept to working hardware.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Experience managing engineering, robotics, hardware, or technical development projects.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Comfortable working remotely.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Ability to prioritize competing technical tasks.

Preferred

• Experience leading open-source hardware projects.
• Startup or prototype development experience.
• Familiarity with Agile or iterative hardware development.
• Experience with GitHub project management.
• Interest in biomedical engineering and open technology.

------ 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.