Test 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 Test 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 advances through rapid, repeatable engineering cycles where every build is tested, every failure is documented, and every improvement is published publicly.

The Test Lead is responsible for proving whether each version of the machine is actually better than the last. This role develops repeatable testing procedures, intentionally induces failures, validates system behaviour, compares versions, and ensures that engineering decisions are supported by evidence rather than assumptions.

Working closely with every engineering lead, the Test Lead develops test protocols covering pressure behaviour, flow performance, alarm functionality, software reliability, power interruption behaviour, emergency stop validation, leak testing, artificial load testing, and system integration.

Responsibilities include designing repeatable test procedures, executing validation tests, documenting failures, maintaining failure logs, comparing software and hardware revisions, identifying regressions, improving test methodology, and contributing to public technical documentation.

This is a high-ownership role suited to someone who enjoys systematic experimentation, engineering validation, and continuous improvement.

------ QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Experience testing engineering systems, software, electronics, laboratory equipment, or similar technical products.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience documenting technical results.
• Ability to design structured test procedures.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Comfortable working remotely.

Preferred

• Quality Assurance or Verification & Validation experience.
• Laboratory testing experience.
• Experience with automated testing.
• Data analysis experience.
• Startup prototype development.
• Interest in open-source 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.