OpenABLS Industrial Designer (Autodesk Fusion / 3D CAD) (Remote, Volunteer, Part-Time)

OPEN ABLS INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER — VOLUNTEER, PART-TIME

Organization: Right to Live Canada

Location: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)

Time Commitment: Part-time volunteer commitment, minimum 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work. 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 make continued life a practical, supported, executable option when a preferable living future exists but the systems required to reach it do not.

We were founded in response to systemic poverty-driven euthanasia among Canadians with disabilities: cases in which people pursue MAiD because housing, income, care, treatment, or other essentials required to continue living are unavailable. In those cases, death can become the executable option while a preferable living future remains structurally out of reach.

That distinction defines Right to Live. Right to Live is the only organization in Canada addressing euthanasia with a practical solution model for all Canadians - not merely opposing MAiD, documenting harms, or raising awareness, but building the service, financing, technological, and institutional infrastructure that can make continued life executable. The scale of the issue is already national: 16,499 Canadians received MAiD in 2024, equal to 5.1% of all deaths in Canada, and the number of MAiD provisions increased another 6.9% over 2023 after years of year-over-year growth. MAiD is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada. And those 16,499 deaths capture only euthanasia itself - not Canadians who die because care is inaccessible, support gaps go unresolved, or life-preserving and specialty treatments cannot be reached. We were founded in response to poverty-driven disability euthanasia, but the solution is not limited to disability: Continuity is being built for any Canadian facing a potential death where a preferable living future can still be achieved.

We call that infrastructure Continuity: the service, financial, technological, and institutional architecture required to connect a person facing potential death to a preferable living future. The model is designed to identify what would make continued life viable, assemble the intervention, solve the financing problem, and execute it. Its scope can extend from social and medical supports to frontier technologies where the body itself becomes the limiting factor.

Right to Live is building this through four core areas:

• Continuity Service — the practical service layer: identify what is driving a person toward an avoidable death, design a preferable living future, determine how it can be financed, execute the intervention, and produce an actual outcome rather than another referral dead end.
• Continuity Insurance — developing insurance-based financing so people can pre-fund access to Continuity interventions before a future death-risk scenario becomes an immediate financial crisis.
• Social Brokerage — developing a way to finance people who cannot afford Continuity by turning the anonymized outcome of a life supported into a measurable impact product for global impact buyers.
• Corporate Farming — building and incubating mission-locked organizations around the technologies, services, infrastructure, and concepts Continuity will need, then spinning them out to pursue those missions at full scale.

Right to Live is an early-stage, founder-led Canadian nonprofit built to move at startup speed on problems normally treated as separate: poverty-driven disability euthanasia, the absence of a practical service pathway to preferable living futures, the financing gaps that can make survival inaccessible, and frontier technologies that could preserve continuity when ordinary life-support pathways run out. OpenABLS is one of our most ambitious examples: a nonprofit-led, open-source Artificial Brain Life Support development project working toward a reference design that could sustain a living brain when the body can no longer support it. For the Head of Revenue, the opportunity is to build the revenue engine behind work with both immediate human impact and extraordinary long-term potential.

------ ROLE DESCRIPTION

This is a part-time, volunteer, and remote role for an OpenABLS Industrial Designer with Right to Live Canada.

The OpenABLS Industrial Designer will create precise, visually strong, and reusable 3D CAD models for the project’s development stages: the open workbench, the Integrated Development Prototype, and the eventual reference product. The role will also develop related concepts, including the ABLS Idol Bot as a representative humanoid embodiment option and possible future platform.

The first phase will focus on exterior form, proportions, scale, and configuration without inventing unsupported internal detail. As component selection and system design mature, the designer will progressively develop accurate internal layouts, component models, assemblies, connection views, cutaways, exploded views, technical drawings, and presentation-ready renders using dimensions and decisions supplied or approved by the engineering team.

Responsibilities include building and maintaining parametric parts and assemblies in Autodesk Fusion; translating dimensions, sketches, reference material, and engineering decisions into accurate models; maintaining clean, reusable, and versioned source files; producing technical and presentation views; incorporating engineering feedback; and coordinating model files with the Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager. The designer must not invent component functions, connections, dimensions, or claims when the engineering basis has not been established.

This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who can combine strong industrial design with engineering discipline and technical restraint. OpenABLS is an early-stage, open-source, non-clinical research and engineering project, so concept models must be clearly distinguishable from validated engineering designs and clinical-ready products. The minimum commitment is 20 hours per week, including meetings and all role work.

The role will work closely with the Head of Product Development, biomedical and engineering contributors, project management, the Technical Documentation & GitHub Manager, web design volunteers, and the Communications & Content Manager. The CAD system should evolve with the product while remaining coherent, reusable, and accurate across every public and technical application.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Universal Requirement:

• You must possess good equipment for virtual meetings, both video and audio.
• You must attend virtual meetings with the capability to give it your full attention, like a dedicated office room or space.

Required:

• A strong portfolio demonstrating professional industrial design, 3D CAD product development, or complex hardware design.
• Advanced proficiency in Autodesk Fusion or a comparable professional parametric CAD platform, including clean modeling workflows and organized production files.
• Strong industrial-design capability in form development, proportion, materials, finishes, and manufacturability awareness.
• Ability to translate dimensions, sketches, reference images, diagrams, and engineering feedback into accurate 3D models.
• Experience creating parametric parts, assemblies, component layouts, cutaways, exploded views, or other technically informative product models.
• Ability to maintain reusable model libraries, disciplined file organization, and clear revision history.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to receive, clarify, and implement detailed technical feedback.
• Comfort working remotely with a high degree of ownership, consistency, and follow-through.
• Judgment to distinguish visual concept development from engineering validation and to avoid unsupported technical invention.

Preferred:

• Experience visualizing biomedical, medical-device, laboratory, life-support, robotics, or other complex hardware.
• Experience with Blender, KeyShot, or comparable tools for high-quality materials, lighting, photorealistic rendering, and presentation assets.
• Mechanical-design or product-development experience, including component packaging, interfaces, materials, manufacturability, or product architecture.
• Experience producing 3D animation, motion studies, turntables, or explanatory technical sequences.
• Experience preparing models and renders for websites, presentations, videos, media, sponsorship materials, and open-source documentation.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

This is a part-time volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 20 hours per week, including all meetings and role work. 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

Apply through LinkedIn with your resume OR the form on our website ( www.righttolive.ca/volunteer ) or email volunteer@righttolive.ca.

Thank you for your consideration.