C# Computer Scientist

Full remote. Short contracts.

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:

https://chesscraft.ca/jobs#job-csharp-compsci