Perfusion/Life Support Advisor, 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 Perfusion / Life-Support Advisor supporting the Open ABLS project.

The Open ABLS platform is being developed as a non-clinical engineering research system. The Perfusion / Life-Support Advisor helps ensure that the engineering architecture remains informed by current perfusion and life-support principles while maintaining the project's non-clinical scope.

The advisor works closely with the Scientific Advisor and engineering leads to review fluid system concepts, pump selection, pressure behaviour, flow characteristics, temperature management concepts, safety considerations, and physiological assumptions relevant to future research.

Responsibilities include reviewing engineering concepts, advising on perfusion principles, identifying unrealistic assumptions, recommending improvements, reviewing documentation for physiological accuracy, and helping prioritize future development directions.

This role is particularly suited to professionals who enjoy helping bridge engineering and biological sciences in an open collaborative environment.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Professional experience in perfusion, extracorporeal circulation, critical care technology, biomedical engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong understanding of perfusion systems.
• Ability to communicate physiological concepts to engineers.
• Excellent collaboration skills.

Preferred

• Clinical perfusion experience.
• ECMO or cardiopulmonary bypass experience.
• Biomedical research experience.
• Medical device development.
• Interest in open-source medical engineering.

------ TIME COMMITMENT

This is a full-time volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 35 hours per week although highly skilled applicants in ABLS may be considered at 20+ hours per week minimum . 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.