Playtest Lead — ClusterCraft

Contract / part-time · ~8–10 hrs/week Sydney, NSW PlayTest · Hybrid ClusterCraft is a tycoon/resource manager style game about running an AI compute cluster — power, cooling, GPUs, networking, training workloads, and the costs that tie them together. Built as a game/simulator for our real product. After a year of dev, we're ready for players. See what it looks like: ClusterCraft on YouTube

The job

Run 5 playtest sessions/week. Source testers, schedule, run, synthesize, hand structured feedback to devs. Sessions are 10–30 min today; we want them longer.

The hard part

ClusterCraft needs feedback from two audiences: tycoon gamers and infra/FinOps people. If you already have a foothold in either community, that's most of why we'd hire you.

Bonus, not required

Tune variables and level design yourself if you're technical.

Logistics

Initial onboarding sessions for a few hours with our team for you to understand the simulator and its features.
Work hours of your choosing (subject to playtester availability) most of the time.
Most of our team centers around Sydney time zone.
Rate depends on experience and network — tell us what you'd want.

About us

Strong Compute makes software to manage high performance compute assets across multiple cloud vendors. We are a startup, largely based in Sydney and have been in operation for over 4 years.

Submit your application

Applying for Playtest Lead — ClusterCraft. Fields marked with are required. *Resume/CV * PDF or Word, max 5MB Full name * Email * Phone * Current location * Current company**

Tell us about you.

What are the three most impressive things that you've done? What does your five year career goal look like? At Strong Compute, we're building the future cloud today and working towards the Dyson sphere tomorrow. Nothing is too ambitious for us. What moonshot do you most want to see happen? *

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