Product designer 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 Product Designer 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. While the early focus is technical functionality, the project also aims to produce a machine that is intuitive to assemble, maintain, understand, and ultimately replicate by laboratories, universities, manufacturers, and future collaborators.

The Product Designer is responsible for the overall user experience of the physical machine. This includes enclosure concepts, human interaction, dashboard layout, accessibility, ergonomics, visual communication, assembly experience, serviceability, and industrial design. The role works closely with the Hardware Lead to ensure that engineering decisions also produce a machine that is practical, understandable, and visually coherent.

Responsibilities include industrial design, enclosure concepts, interface layout, user-centered design, operator workflow, assembly experience, serviceability improvements, design visualization, design reviews, and contributing to public documentation and presentation materials.

The Product Designer also helps communicate the Open ABLS project visually, making complex engineering systems easier for contributors, researchers, manufacturers, and the public to understand.

This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who enjoys combining engineering, industrial design, usability, and visual communication to create products that people can confidently build and use.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Degree or equivalent experience in Product Design, Industrial Design, Human-Centered Design, Mechanical Design, or a related discipline.
• Experience designing physical products or technical equipment.
• Experience using Blender software.
• Strong CAD and 3D visualization skills.
• Understanding of ergonomics and user-centered design principles.
• Excellent visual communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Comfortable working remotely with a high degree of ownership and follow-through.

Preferred

• Experience designing scientific, laboratory, or medical equipment.
• Experience with Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
• Experience with rapid prototyping and 3D printing.
• Experience creating technical illustrations, renderings, or product visualizations.
• Startup or hardware product development experience.
• Interest in open-source hardware and biomedical technology.

------ 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.