Scientific 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 Scientific Advisor with Right to Live Canada, focused on the Open Artificial Brain Life Support (Open ABLS) project.

Open ABLS is an open-source artificial brain life support initiative beginning with a non-clinical bench machine: pumps, tubing, sensors, control software, artificial loads, data logging, alarms, power management, and a visible physical build. The project is explicitly non-clinical at this stage. The public prototypes are not for patient use, do not require biological material, and are intended to use water or safe simulant fluids, artificial loads, transparent circuits, benchtop sensors, dummy modules, software simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.

The Scientific Advisor will help keep Open ABLS pointed toward the biological reality of brain support while preserving a strict non-clinical boundary. This means advising the team on the scientific plausibility, biological constraints, physiological assumptions, research direction, terminology, risk boundaries, and long-term research pathway, without representing the public bench project as a clinical device or a patient-ready system.

This role is central to ensuring that the project’s engineering velocity remains grounded in reality. Open ABLS is not trying to win through institutional language or speculative claims. It is trying to build, test, fail, log, revise, release, replicate, and accelerate. The Scientific Advisor will help the build team understand what matters biologically, what assumptions need to be tested later by qualified labs, what claims should not be made, and how to communicate the project responsibly.

Responsibilities include reviewing Open ABLS documentation, advising on scientific framing, identifying biological and physiological considerations relevant to future brain-support research, helping define the boundary between non-clinical engineering work and later qualified biological research, reviewing public-facing technical claims for accuracy and caution, advising the build team on what variables may matter in future research, and helping the organization avoid overstatement, premature clinical language, or misleading implications.

The role will work closely with the Executive Director, Build Lead, Fluid Loop Lead, Perfusion / Life-Support Advisor, Hardware Lead, Software Lead, Test Lead, and Documentation Lead. The Scientific Advisor is not expected to personally build the machine, but should be able to engage seriously with engineers, builders, researchers, and technical volunteers working on an open-source bench platform.

This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who can combine scientific seriousness with startup urgency. Right to Live Canada is building a culture of highly dedicated volunteers. The expected commitment is 35+ hours per week, with preference for candidates who are able and willing to contribute at a higher level during important growth periods, launch periods, or urgent organizational needs.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

● Scientific, biomedical, neuroscience, physiology, life-sciences, medicine, bioengineering, or closely related research background.
● Ability to evaluate biological and physiological claims with caution, rigor, and intellectual honesty.
● Strong understanding of the difference between non-clinical engineering prototypes, biological research, medical devices, and clinical use.
● Ability to help maintain a strict non-clinical boundary for an early public engineering project.
● Ability to review project materials and identify claims that are speculative, overstated, misleading, premature, or insufficiently grounded.
● Strong written and verbal communication skills.
● Ability to communicate scientific constraints clearly to engineers, builders, documentation volunteers, and non-specialists.
● Comfort working remotely with a high degree of ownership and follow-through.
● Strong organization and time management skills.
● Professional judgment, discretion, and reliability when advising on sensitive scientific and life-support-adjacent subject matter.

Preferred

● Background in neuroscience, neurophysiology, cerebral perfusion, critical care research, biomedical engineering, organ preservation, life-support systems, perfusion science, or adjacent fields.
● Experience advising early-stage scientific, engineering, open-source, or research projects.
● Experience reviewing technical documentation, research proposals, public-facing claims, or scientific communications.
● Familiarity with benchtop research systems, sensors, pumps, fluid loops, artificial loads, data logging, or non-clinical prototype development.
● Understanding of research ethics, translational research pathways, medical-device boundaries, or clinical/regulatory caution.
● Ability to think long-term about how a crude non-clinical bench system could eventually inform qualified biological research without collapsing the distinction between the two.
● Interest in open-source science, public build culture, radical life-extension infrastructure, continuity technology, or the development of artificial brain life support as a future research category.

------ 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.