Playtest Lead — ClusterCraft Contract / part-time · ~8-10 hrs/week ·

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:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLteq7Tjf0g7To2nG5PPfvCX9KYmc0pctc

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 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.