Remote AI Agent Engineer – Freelance & Flexible Hours

Outlier; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 57,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly payments

Payment options: ACH/PayPal/AirTM

Job summary

Outlier is seeking contributors to help train autonomous agents and improve AI workflows. You’ll work remotely on backend engineering and AI automation projects, focusing on building production-grade, modular software that coordinates data parsing, logic processing, and reporting.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in related fields, strong attention to detail, and hands-on experience integrating live tools. Flexible, freelance, with opportunities to earn via incentives.

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 with data-driven outputs.
• Hands-on experience integrating agents with live tools such as Supabase, Gmail, and various APIs.
• High level of comfort implementing persistent state and session discovery using MEMORY.md to track agent progress.
• Experience identifying subtle failures like privacy leaks, authority escalation, or indirect prompt injections.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Backend engineering

AI automation

Complex systems integration

Production-grade software

Live environment testing

Attention to detail

Multi-stage coordination

APIs integration

Memory/state management

Privacy & security

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier is seeking contributors to help train autonomous agents and improve AI workflows. You’ll work remotely on backend engineering and AI automation projects, focusing on building production-grade, modular software that coordinates data parsing, logic processing, and reporting.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in related fields, strong attention to detail, and hands-on experience integrating live tools. Flexible, freelance, with opportunities to earn via incentives.