Role Overview

We’re looking for Basketball experts — avid fans, sports journalists, commentators, and former or semi-professional players — to evaluate basketball games . You’ll watch basketball games and answer questions in real time assessing the quality, depth, and accuracy of AI insights, helping us refine our AI’s basketball reasoning, storytelling, and strategic understanding.

NOTE: You need to be available to join the call today from 5 pm PT – 8 pm PT.

Key Responsibilities

- Game Evaluation: Watch basketball games and review AI-generated play-by-play commentary and post-game analysis.
- Performance Scoring: Rate the accuracy, insight, and entertainment value of AI sports coverage.
- Context & Understanding: Assess the AI’s grasp of player performance, game flow, and strategic decisions.
- Error Detection: Identify factual mistakes, poor interpretations, or stylistic inconsistencies.
- Feedback Reporting: Provide clear written feedback highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
- Collaboration: Work with analysts and developers to enhance the AI’s basketball-specific reasoning and realism.





Required Qualifications

- Basketball Expertise: Deep understanding of the game — whether through playing, coaching, commentating, or passionate fandom.
- Analytical Thinking: Ability to evaluate basketball strategies, narratives, and statistical insights.
- Communication Skills: Robust written English and ability to clearly articulate nuanced basketball insights.
- Tech Readiness: Comfortable using online evaluation tools and dashboards.

About Mercor

Mercor is a talent marketplace that connects top experts with leading AI labs and research organizations.

Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D’Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey .

Thousands of professionals across domains like engineering, research, law, and creative services have partnered with Mercor on frontier AI projects.

Job Criteria

- Seniority level: Not Applicable
- Employment type: Full-time
- Job function: Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
- Industries: Software Development

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📌 Basketball Expert (Fans, Journalist, Commentator, etc.) (Toronto)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Toronto