Software Lead, Open Artificial Brain Life Support (ABLS) Project (Remote, Volunteer, Part-Time or Full-Time)
Organization: Right to Live Canada
Location: Remote
Time Commitment: Volunteer commitment of 20+ hours per week (part-time or full-time). 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 part-time or full-time, volunteer, and remote role for a Software Lead supporting the Open ABLS project.
The Software Lead owns the software architecture of the Open ABLS platform. This includes sensor acquisition, pump control, dashboard development, data logging, alarm systems, replay functionality, simulation modes, software versioning, and run-file management.
Working closely with the Electronics Lead and Test Lead, the Software Lead develops reliable control software that enables repeatable experimentation and supports the project's philosophy of open, versioned engineering.
Responsibilities include firmware and application development, dashboard design, control software, simulation tools, logging systems, software architecture, repository organization, version control, and collaboration with other engineering leads.
------ QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Python, C++, C, or embedded software development.
- Experience with Git and collaborative software development.
- Strong software architecture skills.
- Ability to write maintainable, well-documented code.
Preferred
- Embedded Linux or Raspberry Pi experience.
- Microcontroller programming.
- Data visualization.
- Industrial control software.
- Open-source software development.
- Scientific computing or laboratory automation.
------ TIME COMMITMENT
This is a volunteer role requiring a minimum commitment of 20+ hours per week, with part-time and full-time participation welcomed. 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.
Required career level
- Volunteer