AI Agent Engineer — Remote Freelance, Up to $50/hr

Outlier; Vancouver; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Outlier is seeking contributors to shape the future of autonomous agents by building and evaluating OpenClaw-like architectures. This freelance, remote role offers up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payments and opportunities to work across AI tooling and live environments.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years in backend engineering or related fields, strong system design skills, and a track record of delivering production-grade software. Flexible, remote work is supported globally.

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

Systems integration

Production-grade software

Modular architecture

Live environments

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier is seeking contributors to shape the future of autonomous agents by building and evaluating OpenClaw-like architectures. This freelance, remote role offers up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payments and opportunities to work across AI tooling and live environments.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years in backend engineering or related fields, strong system design skills, and a track record of delivering production-grade software. Flexible, remote work is supported globally.