Frame of Mind is Hiring!

Community Manager (part-time)

I believe that all kind reviews, thoughtful feature requests, and helpful bug reports deserve a kind reply. However with my full time day job (not ChessCraft) I'm struggling to find the time. As community manager, I'm hoping you'll free up some of my time so I can do more programming.

Job Description

Starting with most important:

• Reply to Google Play and Steam reviews, mostly using my templates.
• There are many duplicate feature requests and bug reports from the community. Help track this on GitLab.
• Recommend and run new social media platforms or community strategies.
• Summarize the highlights of each month for me.
• Moderate reddit, discord, user uploads, and more.
• Recommend, design, and run online events.
• Give free Patron codes to teachers, parents, kids, and students.
• Proofread the newsletter and blog posts.

Hours and Compensation

This is a part-time remote position with a flexible schedule. Hourly compensation will be "fairly good for a student in university" though you can help me figure out what that should be.

We will start at a few hours a month. If you take initiative and I like your big ideas, we can do more.

Requirements

• Fluent English.
• Casual and professional writing style.
• To reply to mean and vulgar reviews, polite but snarky writing style.
• Familiarity with social media platforms.
• Basic knowledge of classic chess (how all the pieces move).

Assets

Not required, but nice to have:

• Send me an email from a school or institution email address, so I can trust you faster.
• Links to any opinions you have on human rights, gender equity, safe spaces, or community building.
• Canadian or Québécois. Maybe this makes payment and taxes easier, I'm not sure.
• Portfolio with any kind of content creation: art, game content, photography, video, music. Don't worry about quality - just the initiative of creating any content is great.
• Writing samples.
• Fluent in any language beyond English or French (because I know those)

C# Computer Scientist (contract)

Once the AI became good enough to beat me on smaller boards with variant pieces and could crush 99% of my users on most boards, I stopped making it better. However I have a backlog of ideas to make it even better.

The AI for ChessCraft is written in C#. Unity uses this codebase, but it also compiles to a commandline application with tests and benchmarks. You can learn more about the C# ChessCraft project here.

Job Description

Implement AI and C# improvements:

• Parameter tuning. Presently, my 50 parameters are not tuned at all, I just hand-picked values.
• Implement the Universal Chess Interface (UCI)
• Implement various C# performance ideas I've noted but haven't had a chance to implement and benchmark yet.
• Implement or suggest C# optimization ideas.
• Simplify the tree search code.

Hours and Compensation

Based on experience and portfolio. Your application email must include your proposed hourly rate.

Requirements

• Portfolio of C# project(s). I must see code samples. For team projects, I can clearly identify what was written by you.
• Knowledge of computer science or experience with performance optimization.
• Basic knowledge of classic chess.

Assets

Not required, but nice to have:

• Experience with machine learning, especially parameter tuning or popular open source libraries.
• Related university degrees, online course completions, or certificates.
• Quantitative results of performance improvements to code (any language).
• Experience with Unity or Linux.
• Send me an email from a school or institution email address, so I can trust you faster.
• Canadian or Québécois. Maybe this makes payment and taxes easier, I'm not sure.