Remote Python AI Agent Engineer (Freelance)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Remote work

AI access worth $200+/month

Job summary

Outlier is seeking skilled backend engineers to help shape the future of autonomous AI agents. This freelance role offers remote work with flexible scheduling and competitive rates up to 50 USD per hour.

Contributors can work from anywhere while supporting high-complexity system integration and live-world testing. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of backend engineering and AI automation experience, with a track record of building production-grade software.

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.
• Nice to have experience building multi-stage coordination tasks and live tool integrations (e.g., Supabase, Gmail, and various APIs).

Responsibilities

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

Job description

Outlier is seeking skilled backend engineers to help shape the future of autonomous AI agents. This freelance role offers remote work with flexible scheduling and competitive rates up to 50 USD per hour.

Contributors can work from anywhere while supporting high-complexity system integration and live-world testing. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of backend engineering and AI automation experience, with a track record of building production-grade software.