Frame of Mind is Hiring!
About Us
Frame of Mind is an AI games company in Montreal, Canada. ChessCraft is a chess variant AI sandbox with nearly a million installs. Team of one. Built with Unity. Available on Google Play, App Store, and Steam.
Jobs
All positions are full remote.
To apply, send me an email:
UI Specialist
Full remote. Contract.
ChessCraft needs a UI overhaul. You propose the deliverables (work, types of files, who integrates it into Unity), timelines, and your rate or budget. I encourage you to send more than one proposed package/option at different price points. You must include a portfolio of UI work done by you (not a team, or be very clear what was done by you).
To apply, send me an email:
Community Manager
Full remote. 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, education, 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)
To apply, send me an email:
C# Computer Scientist
Full remote. 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
You could be a senior adviser and review the project with me, or be a developer to help with AI and C# improvements:
- Suggest industry best practices, refactoring, and utilities for the C# project.
- Parameter tuning. Presently, my 50 parameters are not tuned at all, I just hand-picked values.
- 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
- You can have a technical conversation about most of the AI concepts used to build ChessCraft.
- 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.
To apply, send me an email:
