Remote AI Agent Engineer

Outlier; Gold Coast City; Remote; AUD 81,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Outlier invites skilled engineers to join freelance, remote roles building and refining autonomous agent systems. You will help design evaluation rubrics, trace and debug agent behavior, and stress test multi-turn interactions in real-time projects for varied clients.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering or AI automation, with a track record of delivering production-grade software and handling live system challenges. Remote work and flexible hours are available.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration.
• Proven ability to build and maintain production-grade software with modular separation (e.g., distinct services for data parsing, logic processing, and reporting).
• Practical experience building for live, non-mocked environments and handling multi-turn system interactions.
• Outstanding attention to detail and the ability to provide clear, high-density technical feedback on complex system behaviors.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend engineering

AI automation

Complex systems integration

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier invites skilled engineers to join freelance, remote roles building and refining autonomous agent systems. You will help design evaluation rubrics, trace and debug agent behavior, and stress test multi-turn interactions in real-time projects for varied clients.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering or AI automation, with a track record of delivering production-grade software and handling live system challenges. Remote work and flexible hours are available.