Remote AI Agent Engineer (Contract) Up to $50/hr

Outlier; Manchester; Remote; GBP 43,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Outlier is seeking contributors to shape the future of autonomous agents by building and evaluating agent workflows. This freelance, remote role offers flexible hours and compensation up to $50 USD/hr, with weekly payments and opportunities for incentives.

As part of the team, you will write evaluation rubrics, debug agent traces, and stress-test agent performance to ensure production-grade reliability across live environments.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in backend engineering, AI automation, or complex systems integration.
• Ability to build production-grade software with modular separation (data parsing, logic processing, reporting).
• Experience building for live environments and multi-turn system interactions.
• Attention to detail and ability to provide high-density technical feedback on complex behaviors.
• Nice to have experience building multi-stage coordination tasks.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

2+ years experience

Backend engineering

AI automation

System integration

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier is seeking contributors to shape the future of autonomous agents by building and evaluating agent workflows. This freelance, remote role offers flexible hours and compensation up to $50 USD/hr, with weekly payments and opportunities for incentives.

As part of the team, you will write evaluation rubrics, debug agent traces, and stress-test agent performance to ensure production-grade reliability across live environments.