Freelance Remote Backend Engineer for AI Agents

Outlier; New York (NY); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free access to leading LLMs

Choose your own schedule

Weekly payments

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Outlier enables the world’s most innovative companies to improve AI agents by providing human feedback and real-world guidance. We partner with leading AI organizations to train large language models to function as proactive, multi-step agents.

Your work will focus on teaching systems to design, coordinate, and optimize complex workflows. As a backend-focused engineer, you will contribute to live, non-mocked environments and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, modular services for data

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

Production-grade software

Multi-turn interactions

Attention to detail

API integrations

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier enables the world’s most innovative companies to improve AI agents by providing human feedback and real-world guidance. We partner with leading AI organizations to train large language models to function as proactive, multi-step agents.

Your work will focus on teaching systems to design, coordinate, and optimize complex workflows. As a backend-focused engineer, you will contribute to live, non-mocked environments and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, modular services for data