Freelance Remote Backend Engineer for Autonomous AI Agents

Outlier; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 81,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Incentives program

Job summary

Outlier enables the world’s most innovative companies to improve AI agents by providing human feedback and training large language models to act as proactive, multi-step agents. You will help design evaluation rubrics and validate agent traces, contributing to robust, production-grade AI systems.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration, with hands-on experience building live environments and multi-service architectures.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration.
• Ability to build production-grade software with modular separation (e.g., distinct services for data parsing, logic processing, and reporting).
• Experience building for live, non-mocked environments and handling multi-turn system interactions.

Responsibilities

• Write Eval Rubrics
• Debug Agent Traces
• Stress Test Agent

Skills

Backend engineering

AI automation

Complex systems integration

Job description

Outlier enables the world’s most innovative companies to improve AI agents by providing human feedback and training large language models to act as proactive, multi-step agents. You will help design evaluation rubrics and validate agent traces, contributing to robust, production-grade AI systems.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration, with hands-on experience building live environments and multi-service architectures.