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

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

Job summary

Outlier is seeking skilled contributors to help shape the future of autonomous agents like OpenClaw. This freelance, remote role offers payments up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payouts and additional incentives based on project outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering or AI automation, with a track record of building production-grade software that can operate in live environments. You will design evaluation rubrics and help stress-test multi-turn agent systems.

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 eng

AI automation

System integration

Live envs

Multi-turn flows

Tools

Supabase

Gmail

APIs

Job description

Outlier is seeking skilled contributors to help shape the future of autonomous agents like OpenClaw. This freelance, remote role offers payments up to $50 USD/hr with weekly payouts and additional incentives based on project outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend engineering or AI automation, with a track record of building production-grade software that can operate in live environments. You will design evaluation rubrics and help stress-test multi-turn agent systems.