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Sports & Fantasy Sports SME at Turing
posted 1 month agoSports & Fantasy Sports SME | Contractor | 40 hrs/week | Worldwide Remote
Turing is seeking a seasoned Sports & Fantasy Sports Subject Matter Expert to help fine-tune large language models with deep domain knowledge in sports analytics and fantasy sports. This is a 10-week contractor engagement requiring 40 hours per week with 8 hours of daily overlap with PST.
About Turing
Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing partners with leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities and builds real-world AI solutions for mission-critical business challenges.
Role Overview
As a Sports & Fantasy Sports SME, you will serve as the domain expert setting the quality bar for sports and fantasy AI applications. You will ground advanced sports analytics and fantasy-sports logic into AI model training, evaluate AI-generated outputs, and ensure they meet real-world professional standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Authoring Skills & Guardrails: Define discovery parameters (sport, league size, scoring format, roster settings) and guardrails (positional limits, PPR vs. standard, tier-based value) for AI builders.
- Context & Interview Co-Design: Co-design interview workflows and validate context files including player projections, roster exports, and customized scoring rule sets.
- Grounding Golden Assets: Verify scoring formulas, standings and playoff logic, draft-value calculations, and validation lists across fantasy draft boards and game scoreboards.
- Quality Sign-Off & Verification: Review and approve AI-generated outputs to ensure full alignment with professional sports and fantasy industry standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in sports analytics, fantasy-sports content/tools development, or league commissioning.
- Deep, hands-on familiarity with diverse scoring systems (PPR vs. standard), draft rankings, player tiers, roster limits, and standings tiebreaker logic.
- Strong professional writing skills with the ability to translate complex league rules into deterministic spreadsheet formulas and structured parameters.
- Analytical and creative problem-solving abilities to design, evaluate, and calibrate fantasy draft boards, scoreboards, and projection models.
- Personal desktop/laptop with a stable, high-speed internet connection for remote work.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in any field.
- Experience in AI evaluation, data annotation, content review, or quality assurance is a plus but not required.
Engagement Details
- Type: Contractor
- Duration: Up to 10 weeks
- Hours: 40 hours/week with 8 hours of PST overlap required
Evaluation Process
- Shortlisted candidates will receive a Job Interest Form.
- Finalized candidates will complete a delivery interview before proceeding.